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And now you see why I almost always put a shorter answer post and then edit it when I'm working from my phone.Д®dit: so one thing that was kind of bothering me about this, and I am not exactly sure how to explain it completely, but basically these programs do sometimes change from one version to the next. Feel free to correct me if I mis-categorized something from OP's list, I'm doing this on my phone. Generally, cloning first (with DDRescue or HDDSuperClone) would be the best first step. The spreadsheet linked above has some minimal non-comprehensive notes about this. The above tools all have something they're best at, so context really matters. There's a list of some in the sidebar of r/AskADataRecoveryPro.

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Non-free but better than other listed toolsДm Disk Editor (DMDE - has the most generous free trial of any reputable tool)Дata Rescue (old and inferior to most tools)ДЄs for actual competent tools, the majority of them aren't even included in this incredibly long list. Somewhat new so many specialists aren't strongly opinionated about it yet RAW recovery is sometimes the only option, but it should be a last resort due to its significant drawbacks. File System metadata like name and location will be lost, so you'll have hundreds of thousands of files up into the millions to sift through in most cases. This is the worst kind of recovery - it is only capable of recovering non-fragmented files and will recover 10+ false positives for each actual file. It's not exactly good at un-deleting either, but it's free.

Despite their claims that it can recover data in the case of damaged file system or formatting, it is terrible at that. Recuva - Un-delete tool, for un-deleting files removed from the operating system's delete function. Everything it can do can be done by the free trial of DMDE but a million times better and more user friendly.

Testdisk - partition manipulation tool ONLY. Just okay - a mix of many tools under the hood, which is not really a good thing.

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The resultant clone will still need recovery software run against it in most cases as logical damage resulting from failure is cloned with the data Tools that assist in data recovery that are not file recovery toolsДdrescue - cloning tool designed to clone failing drives. Stellar (anything from them except photo repair tool) Ontrack Easyrecovery (re-branded Stellar) Literal scams, misleading about their capabilities, non-insustry-accepted, overall garbage, or a mix:ДЄdvanced Disk Recovery вЂ“ Ultimate SoftwareДisk Drill (garbage EXCEPT with damaged Time Machine backups) As for your list, here's a breakdown of it: If you want to skip over all the rest of this, see this. Is there an updated wiki comparision someone has made of which is better? The second tool they list is hot well-advertised garbage, so I'm going to say no, that list is total crap. If the drive is unhealthy in any way shape or form, the drive is still in use, or if TRIM / UNMAP is involved, yes Would it do a lot more damage if you use all the tools, or it doesnt really matter? Which are the better paid data recovery tools for future use when need to recover in future? They're pretty much all not great, but we'll get to that later

Which are the better free data recovery tools? Better to try than nothing.

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