Tool
Estimate your recovery chance
Five questions. One honest assessment — including when it argues against buying.
The short answer
The answer may well be: buy nothing.
The assessment distinguishes possible hardware damage, an unsupported file system, encryption and overwriting. It explains whether a File Recovery Hero scan is worth trying, another tool is needed, or a lab should assess the device. Everything runs locally in your browser. There is no upload, no server request and no storage.
01 / Assessment
Answer the five questions
02 / Next
What to do with the result
If the assessment is favourable, the next step is still not the scan but an uncompressed image of the device. After that you work only with that file and can try as many tools as you like without stressing the card again.
If the device is not detected reliably, avoid further power-ups and scans and have it assessed professionally. An unsupported file system alone needs suitable software, not a hardware diagnosis. Encryption requires the key first; even a lab cannot recover overwritten bytes.
Common questions
How binding is this assessment?
It is structured orientation based on your answers, not a diagnosis of the device. The actual condition can only be established through read access or a lab analysis.
Are my answers stored?
No. The evaluation happens entirely in your browser. No answers are transmitted and none are stored.
What if I do not know the file system?
Choose the corresponding answer. You can then check it against an image with the boot sector tool, or look it up in the drive properties on Windows and in Disk Utility on macOS.
Does your case fit?
The limits page names everything this software does not solve.