Recovery Toolbox Reviews 722

TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

4.3

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Reviewers overwhelmingly had a great experience with this company. Customers frequently highlight the software's effectiveness in recovering files from damaged or old CDs and DVDs, often describing it as a "miracle" or "life saver." Many users found the software easy to use, fast, and reliable, successfully retrieving important data like wedding videos and old memories that other methods failed to recover. The user experience and the application itself are consistently praised for their functionality and straightforward operation. However, some customers also noted that the software occasionally struggled with severely damaged media, failing to detect disks or recover all content. A few people mentioned that the recovery process could be time-consuming, and in some instances, the recovered files were not entirely free of errors, such as video lags or artifacts.

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I used Recovery Toolbox to rescue my wedding video from an old, badly scratched CD, and it honestly felt like a miracle. I thought those memories were gone forever, but the software recovered e... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent. Retrieves files from old recordable DVDs that cause Windows Explorer to choke and lock up completely, and does so quickly without any fuss. Microsoft should have bought this and incoporated... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Perfect! It saved me from having to recover data in a much more complicated and expensive way. I recovered an unreadable burned CD with deep scratches, using a combination of polishing the outer polyc... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

This program says its FREE but don't be mistake, its fully working and pretty fast I successfully recover lots of my olds cds with data video and others. RECOMENDED!!!


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Recovery tools for corrupted files of Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Address Book, Zip, RAR, Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Project, Onenote, Flash, CD, DBF, PDF, SQL, Server, MySql, Registry, Photoshop, Illustrator, Exchange Server, AutoCAD, CorelDRAW, Lotus Notes


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4.3

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TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

722 reviews

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent for old discs

Excellent. Retrieves files from old recordable DVDs that cause Windows Explorer to choke and lock up completely, and does so quickly without any fuss. Microsoft should have bought this and incoporated the technology into Windows years ago.

April 9, 2026
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Recovery Toolbox recovered our wedding pictures...

Recovery Toolbox recovered our wedding video from a badly scratched CD when we had almost given up hope. We were extremely happy to see all the files restored, especially the main wedding video that means so much to us. The software was easy to use, fast, and incredibly effective. A truly outstanding tool.

March 3, 2026
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Grateful for recovered files!

I used the CDRecovery tool (from the "Recovery Toolbox for CD Free" package) to recover files from aging files on a recorded DVD. It tried multiple times to recover damaged sectors and in several cases was able to get data that the regular OS tools failed to copy. It wasn't able to get everything, but this DVD was quite old (over 20 years), so still a remarkable feat. I'm very grateful.

February 18, 2026
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Works really well!!!

Works really well. Have tried many methods to restore my damaged files on a CD, and this really helped. Thank you so much.

February 8, 2026
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

works great!!

The software was a real life saver.. my Wedding VCD 34 years OLD had the file but unable to open.. the software managed to recover the file in full!!( Its takes time as it des bit by bit.. patience wins!)

December 14, 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

This worked better than expected

This worked better than expected. Used this app as a last hope to recover filed from some old DVDs and CDs, not all the files could be saved but what was saved was better than nothing.

January 30, 2026
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