Linux Data Recovery Software

There's also an alternative Linux hard drive recovery approach. Disk Drill is also a great tool for expert-level computer specialists, and even offers an Enterprise edition for premium-level users. That said, if you are aware of the different approaches of our recovery methods, you may get deeper into more granular controls of the recovery process. Go ahead and click the "gear" icon - ⚙️ - by the unified "Recover" button (this one will look like an arrow if you are using Disk Drill for Windows). This will show you the menu in which you can now pinpoint the exact recovery method you would like to run: Quick or Deep Scan, Partition Search and others. Quick Scan is also able to recover recently lost Linux files from EXT4 partitions.

Any data recovery starts with a scan. Should you do Linux RAID recovery or a regular file recovery, the first step is to see if your data is still there and can be recovered without taking your device to a lab. Once you can see your data after running Disk Drill's unified recovery or choosing a specific undelete algorithm, you will usually verify that the data is still recoverable by running a preview of the files listed by Disk Drill. If you already own Disk Drill PRO, you will have a simpler option to directly mount all scanning results as a separate disk. This will give you a bit more freedom of running your verifications in a familiar Finder window, and managing your recoverable items as if they were just regular files on your hard drive. Once you select the files you need to be recovered, hit the final Recover button, confirm the destination, and give it a few minutes to complete the recovery and reconstruction of your Linux data.