UFS Explorer is a full-featured and fast data recovery and file undeleting program for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, developed by SysDev Laboratories from Ukraine. It can recover various types of data lost in computers due to various reasons, supports various storage devices, supports all commonly used file systems on various operating systems, and can even restore files in virtual machines.

EaseUS Partition Master (EPM for short, AKA: 易我分区管理大师) is a very handy and free lossless disk partition manager developed by EaseUS company from China. Its covers an omni-directional disk partition operation, including partition management (create, delete, resize, move, merge, split, extend, wipe, hide, format, etc.), hard disk/partition clone, partition recovery, hard disk/partition copy, and more.

Zero Assumption Recovery (X) (ZAR or ZAR X for short) is currently the only best data recovery solution (with the most accurate data scan and recovery capabilities) for FAT, NTFS, EXT, and XFS filesystems. It was developed by Alexey V. Gubin from Russia, and enjoys a pretty good reputation and popularity around the world on data recovery field. It seems to have been specifically designed for recovering digital photos from digital devices at first, which has exposed as a free feature now (camera compatibility list for photo recovery).

Many external factors can lead to file or data loss (such as: accidentally delete, format some hard disk or partition, virus infection, forcibly remove external storage devices, power failure, system crash, software breakdown...). But their root causes are primarily: MBR (Master Boot Record), BS (Boot Sector), DPT (Disk Partition Table) or MFT (Master File Table) is lost or damaged/corrupted. At this point, the only and ultimate solution that can restore any non-overwritten hard disk data is to use WinHex such kind of hex editor to manually correct them. But that requires you to be proficient in assembly language and the working principle of hard disk. So, what most of us need are some automation tools such like GetDataBack.

Since the days of DOS, DiskMan has been a well-known disk partition management freeware for a very long time around the world. Now it has become more professional and powerful Eassos PartitionGuru (has changed to use its old name DiskGenius again), which also has emerged in the field of data recovery.