Raise Data Recovery vs TestDisk

Raise Data Recovery is software for retrieving files from internal and external HDDs, SSDs, USB flash drives, memory cards, simple RAID storage, NAS devices, and composite volumes. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, including Windows XP SP3 and later, macOS 11 and later, and Debian Linux 6.0 or compatible later versions. Listed tools include memory-card recovery, RAID recovery, bootable recovery, and file previews. A Trial License allows file-system scans, with recovered files limited to 256 KB. The Personal License with Short-Term Support costs $34.95 a month, billed as a lifetime license, and includes perpetual use, unlimited recovery from supported systems, simple and RAID storage support, and 30 days of free updates. Long-Term Support costs $49.95 a month, also billed as lifetime, with 360 days of free updates. Raise Data Recovery is headquartered in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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.