Hetman Partition Recovery review
Broad recovery coverage for encrypted, virtual, and physical storage.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Hetman Partition Recovery is desktop data-recovery software for home users, IT professionals, and businesses handling logical data loss. It supports Windows, Linux, and macOS, with recovery coverage for HDDs, SSDs, USB drives, memory cards, disk images, forensic images, virtual machine disks, and encrypted volumes. The software addresses deletion, formatting, partition loss, file-system corruption, and inaccessible volumes, while providing recovery to another destination.
Its strongest area is breadth across storage types and virtual environments. Fast Scan targets readable file systems, while Full Analysis performs sector-by-sector and content-aware searching. Disk imaging can preserve a source before recovery, and saved scan results allow work to continue later. File filtering, search, thumbnails, and previews help identify files before recovery, while the HEX editor supports disk, partition, and file-system analysis. Platform and ecosystem coverage includes FTP, SSH, NAS, VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, QEMU/KVM, Proxmox, and Parallels.
The license structure separates personal, internal business, and third-party recovery work. Home is for personal, non-commercial use on one computer with a lifetime license. Office adds internal business use and recovery from virtual machine, Apple, and forensic disk images. Business is intended for data-recovery services performed for third parties. The product is a strong fit for organizations that need encrypted-volume, image, virtual-machine, and cross-platform recovery workflows. Teams needing bootable recovery or damaged RAID reconstruction should choose a different or additional product.
Hetman Partition Recovery pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Supports BitLocker, LUKS, VeraCrypt, and FileVault volumes
- Recovers from disk images, virtual disks, NAS, and memory cards
- Offers fast scans, full analysis, previews, filters, and saved results
- Where it doesn't
- No free plan is available
- No bootable recovery option is listed
- Damaged RAID reconstruction requires a separate RAID Recovery product
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