He never told anyone about that night. But years later, when a junior grad student broke down in his office after a crashed laptop, Leo silently handed her a USB stick.

(Subtracted points for poor modern SSD support and lack of active development)

The software warns users not to save recovered files back to the source partition. This is a critical safety protocol; writing recovered data to the same drive would almost certainly overwrite other recoverable data on the disk.

The keyword here is versus "Free." The free version of EaseUS 13.6 allows you to recover up to 500MB of data. That is enough for a few Word documents, but useless for a 32GB SD card full of holiday photos.

2 — Supported platforms and system requirements