PhotoRec
Documented by CGSecurity. Everything on this page comes from official vendor documentation with a check date. This product has not been independently tested by us; no performance claim appears here.
| Fact | Documented value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Free scan offered | "Free; scan and recovery are both in the free tool" | PhotoRec (CGSecurity) |
| Free recovery allowance | "No recovery cap documented; the vendor page states only that PhotoRec is free" | PhotoRec (CGSecurity) |
| Licence term | "Free open source, GNU GPL v2+" | PhotoRec (CGSecurity) |
| Recurring billing | "No (no paid tier exists on the vendor pages)" | PhotoRec (CGSecurity) |
| Filesystems documented as supported | "PhotoRec carves signatures and works even when the file system is severely damaged (FAT, NTFS, exFAT, ext2/3/4, HFS+; poor on ReiserFS). TestDisk finds lost partitions for APFS, btrfs, ext2/3/4, exFAT, FAT12/16/32, HFS, LUKS, Linux RAID md, LVM, NTFS, ReiserFS, UFS, XFS, ZFS and rebuilds FAT/NTFS boot sectors" | TestDisk (CGSecurity) |
| Supported media | "CompactFlash, Memory Stick, SD, SmartMedia, Microdrive, MMC, hard disks, SSDs, CD-ROM, USB drives, DD raw and EnCase E01 images; read-only access" | PhotoRec (CGSecurity) |
| Minimum OS | "Not documented; vendor lists DOS, Windows 9x-11, Windows Server 2003-2022, Linux, macOS, *BSD, Solaris" | PhotoRec (CGSecurity) |
Fact sources checked 2026-09-14.
Official site
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec (ordinary vendor link; not an affiliate link)