Data Recovery

• dd_rescue - version of dd, designed specifically for recovering data from a medium that has errors (e.g. after hard drive crashes)
  http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
• EasyRecovery (Ontrack)
  http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/file-recovery-software/
• Forensics Wiki – Data Recovery Tools
  http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Tools:Data_Recovery
• GetDataBack (Runtime Software)
  http://www.runtime.org/
• lazarus (part of Coroner's Toolkit) - attempts to reconstruct files from raw data retrieved from unallocated disk space (e.g. unrm output) from UNIX and Windows file systems (see the SleuthKit for more recent developments)
  http://www.porcupine.org/forensics/tct.html
• PhotoRec – for recovering photos
  http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
• PhotoRescue - Data Recovery
  http://www.datarescue.com/
• Recovery is Possible (RIP) – “CD or USB boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system”
  http://freshmeat.net/projects/recoveryispossible/
• Restorer2000 (bitMart)
  http://www.restorer2000.com/
• Rifiuti - parses and exports data from INFO2 (Windows Recycling Bin) files
  http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/rifiuti.htm
• SalvageRecovery and SalvageMedia (SalvageData)
  http://www.salvagedata.com/recovery-software/
• SpinRite (Gibson Research Corporation)
  http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm
• TestDisk - "primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table)," works with BeFS, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, EXT2, EXT3, Netware, NTFS, ReiserFS, SWAP, and UFS
  http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
• unrm - retrieves data in unallocated disk space from UNIX file systems and exports them as raw data (see Lazarus above for further processing of the data)
  http://freshmeat.net/projects/unrm/
• ZAR (Zero Assumption Recovery)
  http://www.z-a-recovery.com/info_zar32.htm