DiskDigger: the Software to Recover the Data You Have Lost on Your PC

Many times we find ourselves in a situation where we accidentally delete a file from the trash or we realize after several days that we have deleted something that was really important and we need to recover it. DiskDigger is the perfect solution to recover any type of file that you need to recover.

Two modes of data recovery operation

It has two modes of operation that are compatible with FAT, NTFS and exFAT .

The first mode of operation is called Dig Deep that allows you to recover all types of files and allows you to filter them by name and size and organize the recovered files by name, size, date and the directory where it was located.

The second much more advanced mode is called Dig Deeper and it allows us to explore the entire hard drive to recover specific files that we need to find and that we have not found with Dig Deep.

DiskDigger Features

It allows you to see all the files to be recovered as a list or if they are images allows you to preview them. The previews allow apart from images to see the covers of the mp3 and icons of the executable files. Selecting a document will give us a preview of the text that this document contains. For compressed files it will give us the complete list of files it contains.

Advanced features

It is capable of exploring virtual hard disk images to recover files in the following formats:

• VMDK – VMware Virtual Hard Drive
• VHD – Microsoft Virtual Hard Drive
• VDI – Virtualbox Virtual Hard Drive

When using the Dig Deeper option you can set the location where to start the search on the disk.

When previewing files the program has an option to display the first 4K bytes of the file in hexadecimal format.

File types supported by DiskDigger

DiskDigger supports many file types so you can most likely find and recover that file or those files that you need to recover.

Photographs and images

• JPG / JPEG – images from digital or web cameras
• PNG – Portable Network Graphics images
• GIF – images Graphics Interchange Format
• BMP – bitmap images
• TIFF – images Tagged Image File Format
• ICO – Windows icons
• ANI – animated Windows cursors
• CR2 – Canon RAW
• SR2 – Sony RAW
• NEF – Nikon’s RAW
• DCR – Kodak RAW
• PEF – Pentax RAW
• RAF – Fujifilm RAW
• RW2 – Panasonic RAW
• LFP – Lytro RAW
• MPO – 3D camera images
• DNG – Adobe Digital Negative images
• SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics Files
• HEIC / HEIF – files
• PSD – Adobe Photoshop image
• RAS – Sun raster images
• PSP – Corel Paint Shop Pro images
• Thumbcache – Windows cache images
• IFF – Amiga images
• ART – AOL images
• WMF – Windows meta files
• EMF – Enhanced MetaFile files
• WMZ / EMZ – compressed MetaFile files
• DICOM – medical files
• WEBP – WebP images
• PCX – ZSoft PCX images
• CDR – CorelDraw files
• INDD – Adobe InDesign files
• CP – Adobe Captivate files
• AI – Adobe Illustrator files

Documents and files

• DOC – Microsoft Word files prior to 2003
• DOCX – Microsoft Word files 2007 or later
• XLS – hello Microsoft Excel pre-2003 calculation
• XLSX – Microsoft Excel spreadsheet 2007 or later
• PPT – Microsoft PowerPoint presentations prior to 2003
• PPTX – Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations 2007 or Later
• VSD – Microsoft Visio documents
• PDF – Portable Document Format files
• XML – eXtensible Markup Language files
• HTML – HyperText Markup Language files
• RTF – Rich Text Format files
• WPD – WordPerfect documents
• WPS – Microsoft Works documents
• PUB – Microsoft Publisher documents
• XPS – XML Paper Specification documents
• WRI – Old Windows Write documents
• ODT, ODS, ODP, ODG – OpenDocument format files
• DPP – Serif DrawPlus documents
• PPP – Serif PagePlus documents

Audio and video

• MP3 – very common audio file MPEG layer 3
• WMA – Windows Media Audio
• AVI – Audio Video Interleave
• WAV – Wave audio
• MID -Musical Instrument Digital Interface
• FLV – Adobe Flash Video
• WMV – Windows Media Video
• MOV – QuickTime video
• M4A – MPEG-4 audio
• M4V, MP4 – MPEG-4 video
• 3GP – Third Generation Partnership video
• F4V – Adobe Flash video based on MPEG-4 Part 12
• RM – RealMedia video
• RMVB – RealMedia video (with variable bitrate)
• MKV – Matroska video
• MPEG – Motion Picture Experts Group
• AU – Sun Microsystems audio
• MTS, M2TS – MPEG2 Transport Stream
• R3D – RED Video Camera
• APE – Monkey’s Audio Audio
• OFR – OptimFROG lossless audio
• PPM, PGM, PBM – Netpbm images
• WEBM – WebM videos

Compressed files

• ZIP – widely used compressed file format developed by PKWARE
• RAR – Roshal Archive used by WinRAR
• 7Z – Compressed 7-Zip file
• GZ – gzip compressed format
• SIT – StuffIt compressed format for Mac
• ACE – WinAce file
• CAB – Microsoft Cabinet file
• SZDD – Compressed Files Created by MS-DOS COMPRESS.EXE

Other file types

• ISO – optical media images like CDs and DVDs
• EXE – Windows executable
• DLL – dynamic Windows library
• MDB – Microsoft Access database prior to 2003
• ACCDB – Microsoft Access Database 2007 or later
• PST – Microsoft Outlook personal folders
• DBX – Microsoft Outlook Express data file
• XAC – GnuCash data file
• KMY – KMyMoney data file
• DWG – AutoCAD drawing
• DXF – Drawing Interchange Format
• CHM – Microsoft Compiled HTML Help file
• TTF, TTC – TrueType font
• CLASS – Java class file
• KMZ – geolocation data from Google Earth
• FIT – Garmin Activity File
• WALLET – Armory Bitcoin wallet
• WALLET.DAT – Bitcoin Core wallet

Download DiskDigger

We recommend a 100% free application called Recuva instead of DiskDigger if we are going to need to recover many files to avoid the annoying message during the recovery of the files that we buy the software and we have to wait to continue.

DiskDigger is compatible with all versions of Windows from the old XP to the most modern Windows 10 Build 2004 and is available for free on the official website of the developer, although every once in a while it asks us to enter the key that we have bought it (it is worth about 13 euros) and the interface is only available in English.