Disk Recovery Tool
Rescue data off a
failing drive. Free.
A free, open-source toolchain for imaging a damaged/failing disk sector by sector, then recovering exFAT files by parsing filesystem metadata directly — with signature-based carving as a fallback for what metadata recovery can't rebuild. A graphical front-end wraps all of it for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Portable, single-file executables — nothing to install. All builds and source: Releases · Source on GitHub
\\.\PhysicalDriveN) only works on
Windows today — the imager talks to the Win32 device API directly. macOS/Linux builds of
the GUI can still scan/recover/carve from an image file (.img/.rci)
produced elsewhere.1. Imager
Sector-by-sector copy with retries, bad-sector skipping, and resume — splits across multiple destination disks when none of them alone can hold the source.
2. exFAT recovery
Walks the exFAT boot sector, FAT, and directory entries directly to recover files with their original names and folder structure — including deleted files.
3. Carver
Signature-based fallback for data whose directory entry is gone: finds known file headers in whatever region metadata recovery couldn't claim.
Rescue map
Every read is tracked as good/bad/unknown in a durable, checksummed map, so a file is only ever reported complete if every byte of it was actually read.
Scan before you copy
A metadata-only scan writes a filterable plan (by extension, path, size, date) so you can recover exactly what you need when the destination is smaller than the source.
100% local & free
Open source. Nothing leaves your machine — no cloud upload, no telemetry, no cost.
1. Image
Run the imager against the failing drive first — never work directly on the source.
2. Scan & recover
Scan the image, filter what you need, then recover it with original names and folders.
3. Carve the rest
Run the carver over whatever region recovery couldn't claim, as a last resort.