What is DiskDigger?
DiskDigger is a software that can recover files from any type of media that your computer can read. This includes USB flash drives, memory cards (SD, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, etc), and of course your hard drive. The types of files that it recovers include photos, videos, music, documents, and many other formats.
DiskDigger can even scan reformatted or badly formatted disks (disks to which Windows can’t assign a drive letter), and even disks with bad sectors. It bypasses the Windows file system drivers and scans your disk directly. It has its own built-in support for the following file systems: FAT12 (floppy disks), FAT16 (older memory cards), FAT32 (newer memory cards and hard disks), NTFS (newer hard disks), and exFAT (Microsoft’s new successor to FAT32).
DiskDigger is also very compact and portable. The entire program is a single executable file that you can run from anywhere. There’s nothing to “install,” and the program doesn’t leave any trace of having been run.
How does it work?
DiskDigger has two modes of operation which you can select when scanning your media for deleted files:
This scans the file system that is present on your media, searching for deleted file entries. Supported file systems are FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS. The advantages of this are:
- Very fast
- Recovers all file types
- Recovers file names
And the disadvantages are:
- Doesn’t support all possible file systems (see above for supported file systems)
- Doesn’t scan entire disk (only scans what the file system is aware of)
Scan the disk surface for traces of lost files (dig deeper). This thoroughly scans every sector of your media, searching for traces of known file types. The advantages of this are: - Scans entire disk - Goes underneath the file system, therefore independent of file system And the disadvantages are: - Slower (sometimes much slower) than the first method - Doesn’t recover file names or fragmented files - Only supports certain file types - Finds ‘existing’ files as well as deleted files |
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Technical
File size: 1.08MB
Requirements: Windows XP / Vista / Windows7
Languages: en-US
License: Freeware
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User Experience
Overall User Rating: | Excellent |
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