EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard vs TestDisk

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard scans storage locations for lost files, then lets users preview and recover results. Listed sources include hard drives, external disks, SSDs, USB drives, memory and CF/SD cards, cameras, RAID, and NAS. The product supports more than 1,000 file formats, memory-card and RAID recovery, bootable recovery, and file previews; it can also repair corrupt MP4, MOV, JPEG, and JPG files during recovery. A free edition allows recovery up to 2GB. The trial scans and previews files, but recovering them requires the full version. Listed applications include Data Recovery Wizard for Windows and Mac and MobiSaver for iOS and Android. Supported systems include Windows 11/10/8/7, several Windows Server versions, and macOS 13.x–10.6. Paid options include a Pro One-Week License for $39.95 per once with no renewal fees; the One-Month plan is $69.95 a month. Software recovery will not work on physically damaged drives or devices.

TestDisk is free, open-source software for recovering lost partitions and helping disks boot again when faulty software or human error causes the problem. It can repair partition tables, recover deleted partitions, rebuild or restore FAT and NTFS boot sectors, fix FAT tables, and repair an MFT using its mirror. For file recovery, it can undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2, or copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions. Listed partition-recovery formats also include APFS, HFS+, XFS and ZFS. It works with hard drives, USB drives, memory cards, disk images, DAS, SAN and Linux RAID devices. The portable application is used by extracting its files; no installer is required. Listed operating systems include Windows, macOS, Linux, DOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and SunOS. TestDisk is licensed under GNU GPL v2 or later. The maker says it does not connect to the internet or send information about the user, computer or data. The download page lists version 7.2 dated February 22, 2024, and 7.3-WIP as beta.