Tools for recovering damaged files
29 toolsThe file will not open, the program complains about its format, or the download stopped halfway. These tools take a damaged file apart piece by piece and pull out what survived: Access databases, archives, photographs, video, sound and the contents of USB drives.
Microsoft Access Database Recovery
Pulls tables and records out of damaged .accdb and .mdb files, even when the header or catalog is destroyed. Exports to Excel, CSV, JSON and SQL.
Archive Repair
Diagnose and repair damaged ZIP, RAR, 7z and TAR archives. Finds why the archive will not open and pulls out the files that survived.
Audio Repair
Fix corrupted or broken audio files — repair headers, timestamps, and codec-level damage.
Video Repair
Fix corrupted or broken video files — repair containers, codecs, timestamps, and recover damaged footage.
Photo Repair
Diagnose JPEG corruption, repair file headers, denoise old scans and recover photos that won't open.
Old Photo Restoration
Restores blurry and damaged faces on old snapshots: the neural network brings eyes and facial features back into focus, while auto-tone revives faded shades. Try the before/after examples in one click — no file needed.
Speech Restorer
AI-powered speech restoration that makes unintelligible audio listenable again — fixes noise, muffling, reverb, and bandwidth loss.
USB Drive Not Recognized
Identify the real cause from the symptom and get the exact commands for your system.
Audio Restoration
Bring old recordings back to life. Diagnose noise and clicks, apply per-source presets, repair the spectrogram, target broadcast loudness.
Video Enhancer
Improve video quality with presets or fine-tune every parameter manually.
Disk Image Inspector
Inspect ISO, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, QCOW2, DMG, E01 disk images. Parse MBR/GPT, detect filesystems, hex view, stream SHA-256.
Ransomware identifier
Drop the ransom note and one encrypted file — either alone also works.
File diagnosis
Drop the file that will not open — we walk its structure and tell you what is wrong with it.
Failing drive rescue
Choose the ailing folder, then a safe place for the survivors.
Disk image recovery
Drop the image of the card or drive — .img, .dd, .bin, .raw.
SQLite recovery
Drop the database — .db, .sqlite, .sqlite3, .db3 or a message store.
Unsaved document recovery
Drop the .asd, .wbk or ~WRD file — or the whole AutoRecover folder.
Mail archive reader
Drop the .mbox or .eml file — a whole Takeout export is fine.
PST and OST archives
Opens .pst and .ost archives without Outlook, damaged ones included. Reads mail, contacts and calendar, and exports them.
DBF tables
Opens .dbf tables from dBASE, FoxPro and Clipper, repairs damaged ones, brings back deleted records and exports to CSV.
Illustrator files
Opens Adobe Illustrator files without Illustrator, including ones saved without PDF compatibility, and exports them to SVG and PNG.
Windows registry hives
Opens Windows registry hive files without Windows, shows keys and values, and recovers deleted keys from the hive's free space.
DBX folders
Opens Outlook Express folders without Outlook Express: lists the messages, shows each one, and saves them as EML or a whole folder as mbox.
DXF drawings
Opens DXF drawings without CAD, including truncated and damaged ones, shows them and exports to SVG or a rewritten DXF.
