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GNU ddrescue vs Recuva

A side-by-side look at GNU ddrescue and Recuva. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

GNU ddrescue

GNU ddrescue

Os & Utilities

GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool used to copy data from damaged media. It can resume failed read operations and skip over bad sectors, making it useful for recovering data from failing hard drives or scratched CDs/DVDs.

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Recuva

Recuva

Os & Utilities

Recuva is a free data recovery software developed by Piriform. It can recover deleted files from your Windows computer, external drives, USB flash drives and memory cards. Recuva works to undelete files that have been deleted from the Recycle Bin, via a software crash, virus infection or disk formatting.

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