You can perform both a quick scan and a deep scan of your drives using Wise Data Recovery Free (Image credit: WiseCleaner) The software is straightforward to use.

Seagate is a major player in the disk drive industry, but its Premium Recovery Suite consumer-level data recovery software has a very restrictive licensing model.

Wise Data Recovery can recover files from damaged or formatted hard drives, but there’s only one level of Deep Scan available and not much additional information.