I lost the data on a portable hard drive some time ago and tried various recovery programs to try to obtain one that could find my files. Eventually, I purchased one of them only to be totally disappointed by the results. After several days of scanning it reported there was no recoverable data.
Searching again, more in hope than expectation, I found DMDE and thought I'd give it a try. After a day & a half scanning the program reported all the files I thought were lost. Fingers crossed I tried recovery, to be delighted to find the free version would recover my files, albeit with more manual selection. What a brilliant result, which goes to show not all data recovery programs are the same - some are just rubbish, but DMDE is the best! Thanks guys.

I bought my trusty old 1TB HDD around 20 years ago. It started having issues roughly 8 years ago, frequently failing CRC check...which, as I later learned, is often a sign of physical failure. Eventually, it stopped booting altogether, and the NTFS partition became RAW.

Desperate to save 20 years’ worth of memories, I tried every recovery tool I could find. Unfortunately, I wasn’t aware of the risks of DIY data recovery until I stumbled upon a Reddit thread recommending DMDE. By that point, I had low expectations as most of my earlier attempts had failed.

But I gave the demo a shot, and to my surprise, it actually found the lost partition where all my files were stored! Even the folder structure was still intact, like now way this is real! After successfully recovering a few thousand files using the free tier (I think it was 4000 per copy), I decided to make things easier and bought a 1-year license for just $20.

In the end, I managed to recover about 99% of my photos and videos—along with the original folder structure. Only took me around <36 hours for around 800GB files. Considering I was previously ready to pay the $250 quoted by a local data recovery service, this was absolute steal! Can't recommend DMDE enough.

i tried using this on my failed ssd and it struggled and locked up at about 12% scanned of 240gb ssd.

so i tried this program on my working 2tb mechanical and the program locked up aroud 80% scanned and i tried recovering 4 zip archives and all 4 files errored in the program wouldnt recover any of the files on a working 2tb hdd.

this program doesnt seem good at all compared to others i used that wait till last minute to tell you to shell out money.

i was hopeing this program would help me but it absolutly wasted my time....

I was genuinely crying, almost about to have a panic attack because I lost some pictures very important to me after accidentally formatting my SD card. I thought it was over, and I could basically feel my bones melting in distress. After going from app to app, all with ridiculous prices, I stumbled upon DMDE.

It was a bit clunky to use, and took a bit of poking and prodding, but nothing a Youtube tutorial and trial and error couldn't fix. I was able to recover my photos and get them safely in a folder on my laptop, and I couldn't be more grateful to the creators of this software. Thank you for not being greedy, money hungry capitalists. I will recommend this program ten times over to anyone who will give a listening ear!

Fabulous! I've encounter sd card that was in dji action 3 camera, which should be waterproof, but somehow water got inside. After few minutes camera shown incorrect format on SD card and started to act strangely then turned off and didnt start anymore. Anyways the data seemed corrupted, as windows couldn't even read the card, let alone check it (chkdsk didnt work). There was access issue.
DMDE was my first try software and I'm impressed. Within 20min scan it found all the files, which i can play (videos). Its fantastic!! 5/5

If you accidentally deleted an HDD cuz you didnt know that a windows installer would erase everything in it then this is your solution

My External hard drive crashed and the files did no longer show after I managed to get it running again attached to a reader.
DMDE managed to recover all the files which included Gigabytes of photo's and my music projects.
Very easy process.
Life saver! Thank you so much. Eternally grateful.

hi,
my btrfs hdd in asustor nas had been crashed after power outage. I tries easeus,hetman and several other apps to recover my files. The most important problem was renaming the files after recovery. Only DMDE was able to recover files with their original folder structure and file names. Thanks a lot to DMDE.

I goofed and deleted a folder that I had to have and used many recovery tools and nothing would recover any of the data. I found out about your software thru a 2 year old reddit post. I have to say great work and I appreciate how well this software worked. I will be adding this to my tool box for my next goof moment.

This recovery program has features and recovery methods no other program has. It's the most intelligent and advanced solution I have seen.

I bought it to recover data from a disk with a lot of damaged sectors and an Apple HFS filesystem. While no other program was able to get anything from this disk (probably because other programs don't even support this filesystem), DMDE did rebuilt the filesystem and allowed me to recover the files (some of them were damaged, that was expected, of course, but most of them are perfect!).

The support from the author is really helpful too. I had an strange problem, that was not even caused by the program, it was a Windows or driver problem, and the author implemented a solution for it and offered a new version in really short time.

Really recommend this program!