Restoring files after deletion. Free data recovery software test
Hello friends! Today we have a small incident, because of which I urgently had to use free program to recover deleted files called R.saver, of course I tell you all the details, so the information may be useful to one of the readers.
I have long decided to make a review on our website with you all free programs for recovering deleted files and planned such an article, but here an ideal opportunity turned up to test another similar R.saver program in combat conditions.
R.saver is based on professional versions of very serious data recovery products UFS Explorer, site http://www.sysdevlabs.com/. The program can reconstruct damaged file systems, recover deleted files even after full formatting. You can search and restore deleted files even if the required hard disk partition is completely deleted and is unallocated space.
Free program to recover deleted files
A friend of mine has been collecting a "personal archive" for several years, consisting of favorite films, photographs, music and electronic books. All these files were located on his additional partition (F:) of the laptop, also photos of friends, operating system archive, working documents and so on were located on this section.My friend knew that it was unreliable to store everything collected for years only on a laptop and specially bought a portable USB hard drive for his collection, connecting it to a laptop, he was going to copy the entire collection to a portable screw, went to the disk (F :), selected with the mouse all the necessary for copying folders and accidentally clicked instead of "Copy" "Cut"!
What to do next, my friend did not know, since he had never used this "Cut" function in his life, he called me and in a panic, said that all his files, collected by long and overwork, became translucent. I answered - you need to enter the USB portable hard drive, right-click on an empty space and select the "Paste" function from the menu. What happened next, my friend could not remember exactly, except for the fact that in the process of transferring files, for some reason he turned off the computer and decided to wait for me.
Arriving at his place in the evening, I turned on my laptop. Even if you turn off the computer during such a transfer, then some of the cut files should remain where they were, and the other part should be transferred to another specified location, but the result was completely different.
The laptop was missing almost all the files my buddy needed, which is about 100 GB! Most importantly, the folder called "Personal Archive" with all the archived files disappeared, only the "Home Video" folder remained. I was only able to find 5 GB of video files on a portable USB hard drive.
So, we are working, saving the collection with a free program for recovering deleted files R.saver. Let's go to R.saver official website and download it.
Note: Friends, if you want to temporarily retrain as a data recovery specialist from various media, you must follow the security rules. What are the rules?
The first rule is not to restore deleted files to the same hard drive where they were. In our case, you can connect a portable USB hard drive to your laptop and restore files there. Or you can connect a simple hard drive to a laptop using. Or, if the case is very serious, you can dismantle the laptop hard drive and connect it to a simple computer and recover deleted files with a special program, but this method, of course, is primarily for repair specialists. We launch our R.saver program.
The program is simple and in the course of work we will figure it out, in the main window you need to select from the list of sections the one on which the files were deleted. You can ask a question: - And if all of a sudden hard disk partitions are completely deleted, then what to choose and how to recover deleted information. We will also analyze such a case at the end of the article. I will delete all existing partitions from the hard disk and try to recover the deleted files located on them.
But first of all, we will choose to restore the partition (F:) of the laptop from which the files of my friend disappeared. "Disk management of our laptop", here is our section (F:),
On which there is only one folder "Home Video" remaining from the entire collection.
In the main window of the R.saver program, right-click on the F: drive and select "Search for lost data" Attentive users may notice that there is another option "Restore after formatting", later (in the appropriate situation) we will apply it.
We answer "Yes", as we want to perform a full scan of the partition (F:) for the presence of deleted files.
Performed file system reconstruction based on signatures using the IntelliRAW algorithm.
We are waiting for an hour and a little and we see that the program did not restore all the files, but oh well, more than half of the necessary files were restored, the most important thing was that the very necessary folder "Personal archive" was restored. I did not understand one moment in the program, why the size of all files is 0 KB.
So, we are restoring the found folders with files. I wonder if the files will be readable, it happens that the information recovery program will restore the files, but they turn out to be not working.
We right-click on the folder we need to restore and select (you can click "View" before restoring and see all the files in the folder being restored). Select "Copy to...",
Explorer opens, select the folder into which we want to copy the files claiming to be restored, then click "Select",
The file recovery process begins.
In the main window, right-click on the formatted partition and select "Restore after formatting"
The file system is reconstructed for an hour, then a search (lasting 20 minutes) for file systems on a formatted partition (50 GB in size) takes place.
In the window that appears with a list of found file systems, you need to select the file system of the type we need with a minimum positive offset, in our case it means the first one.
This hard drive belongs to another friend of mine who accidentally formatted his hard drive. So, the R.saver program found on it a bunch of century-old files and only two necessary folders.
Restoration occurs exactly the same as in the previous case, select "Copy to ...", the explorer opens, select the folder into which we want to copy the files claiming to be restored and click "Select", the file recovery process begins.
Restoring files from a hard drive that has completely deleted all partitions
And now friends, let's completely delete all partitions from the Samsung 120 GB hard drive (which we have already mocked in our articles) and see if it will be possible to recover deleted files in this case. We delete all partitions from our hard drive and run the R.saver program.
In the main window of the program, you can see that our entire 120 GB Samsung hard drive is an "Unknown Partition". Right click on it and select "Find lost partition"
Click on the "Find Now" button
Our 120GB hard drive took 40 minutes to scan. Just in case, save your search results. Among the partitions found, there are two partitions that are suitable in size to those that previously existed on this hard disk, this is a disk (C:) with a volume of 55, 24GB and a disk (G:) with a volume of 56, 43GB, tick them and click on the "Use selected" button.
The main program window opens,
We right-click on the found first partition 55, 24GB and select "View file system" (if you select "Search for lost data", the search will be repeated, but this did not work for me personally and there were no more files found).
In the window that appears, we see all the files located in the root of the disk (C:), let's try to go to the C:\Users\users\Desktop desktop and restore the files located there.
Please, all deleted files on the desktop are available for recovery. Right click on the desired folder and select "Copy to..."
In the explorer that appears, select a location on the hard drive and click "Select"
Files are being restored.
But with the disk (G:) everything did not turn out so smoothly, the program did not find the deleted files I needed.
But as I said, in general, for a free program, it worked well.
Friends, in the process of working with the R.saver program, I could miss something, I will be grateful for any help in the comments.
Accidentally deleting files from your computer is easy enough. But restoring them can be problematic. Especially if you don't know where to start. Below you will find a selection of programs for recovering deleted files for Windows. You can safely use any of them to get your lost data back.
It is best to keep one of these programs installed on your computer so that if necessary, you can simply launch and recover lost files without any problems. This is extremely important, since the success of the procedure depends on the number of file operations (writes to disk) that have occurred after the files have been deleted.
06/20/2016 , Anton Maksimov
There are a wide variety of programs on the web. Every day, users install and uninstall various programs. In some cases, for a variety of reasons, a system failure occurs, and some data can easily be lost. The most important data on our computers are documents, photos, audio and video archives. To prevent yourself from losing important data, it is highly recommended that you create regular backups. Well, if it happened that the data is lost, and there is no backup copy, then Recuva comes to the rescue. This is a free program for easy recovery of deleted files (whether due to a crash or mistakenly deleted by the user).
12/26/2014 , Anton Maksimov
A lot has been said about creating backups, but still situations are different. Sometimes a disk may fail, or it will be accidentally formatted, forgetting to write off important data from it. As a result, restoration is urgently needed. In this case, the Hetman Partition Recovery software package comes to the rescue.
According to the assurances of the developers, this product will help recover data from hard drives, USB drives and even memory cards as a result of accidental deletion, formatting, deletion "by the Recycle Bin" via Shift + Del, virus blocking, system failure or damage to the media.
02/27/2012 , Marcel Ilyasov
Undelete 360 is a file recovery software. Undelete 360 is completely free (for home use) and has a high-quality translation into Russian. To scan and recover data, unlike any other similar programs, the application uses a more efficient search algorithm, which can significantly reduce the time spent on pre-scanning hard drives. The application can work with flash media, memory cards, CD \ DVD, ZIP, external HDD, etc.
02/10/2012 , Marcel Ilyasov
Information is a value, and losing such value is very, very unpleasant. And in some cases, the information is so valuable that its cost can reach tens, hundreds and even millions of rubles/dollars. The hard drives, flash drives, and memory cards that store our data allow us to achieve a very high degree of storage reliability, but they also have failures. In addition to device failures, human absent-mindedness also leads to information loss - any user can easily “by inertia” delete important documents, and only then realize that he did something wrong. In any of the options there is a chance to recover information. In the event that this is not a hardware failure, then you can try to restore it yourself using specialized utilities. One of the tools for resurrecting files from media is EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free.
The computers, smartphones and other digital devices that we use contain all of our personal and sensitive data. We can't afford to lose our data, and thankfully, none of these devices are secure. They can get corrupted at any time and lose our important data in the process.
Unfortunately, there is no 100% tool that guarantees that you will never lose data. However, if you have lost some important data due to a corrupted system or accidental deletion, you have a chance to reestablish them.
When you accidentally delete data from your system, or it is deleted for any other reason, it is not actually deleted. Instead, they are marked as deleted and hidden from the OS so that they appear to be deleted (easier than actually deleting them).
Over time, this invisible data gets rewritten as you add more data. This means that if you haven't added any additional data yet, then you can still restore it with special recovery tool.
To help you recover deleted data, we have created list of the best data recovery software. Each software has its own unique compatibility and performance features. You can try several of the tools mentioned here (for recovery) if one tool doesn't work.
Note: The tools below will not help you recover data from an SSD. On an SSD, the data is deleted completely to allow faster data rewriting. So you're out of luck if you have an SSD. However, if you are using an HDD you still have a chance of getting recovered data. (To recover data from an SSD, there are some expensive methods you can find with Google.)
List of the best data recovery software for PC, MAC:
1. Recuva
Recuva is made by software developers Piriform, who are also the developers of the popular PC cleaning tool CCleaner. As in other products, you will get an attractive interface with high quality. Recuva has a built-in wizard (optional) that guides you through the recovery steps every time you want to recover data.
You don't have to do anything, just answer the wizard's questions like data type, scan areas and scan type, etc. and Recuva will handle the rest. Although a normal scan will suffice, you can also use the deep scan option (it takes longer) to further increase the possibility of data recovery. You can recover data such as pictures, audio (MP3), documents, videos, compressed files and email messages from any Windows storage device, you can read data such as digital camera data, hard drive, etc.
Price: Free version (which will be enough for data recovery) and $24.95 paid version (Advanced File Recovery, Virtual Hard Drive Support, Automatic Updates, Premium Support).
Compatibility:
2. Wise Data Recovery
The Wise Data Recovery tool is not one of the most feature rich or highly customizable software out there. It has a clean interface with few options for customization. This might limit it a bit, but this tool is perfect for a quick job.
All you have to do is run the tool and select the drive you would like to scan (removable drives can be scanned too). The software will quickly scan (very fast compared to many) the drive and show you all the data that can be recovered, such as deleted files, documents, videos, emails, etc. The program also exists in a portable version to be with you all the time.
This tool is the best for people who are looking for a quick and easy data recovery tool, but the program is not able to recover all data like other tools can.
Price: Is free
Compatibility: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1
3. Free Undelete
Free Undelete is another easy-to-use data recovery tool similar to Wise Data Recovery. The program does not offer any additional options to select the type of data you are looking for, all you can do is scan the disk (including removable ones) and see the results.
After scanning, the program will show all files that can be recovered and even show all deleted folders. You can simply open folders to recover data from them, or just restore everything with a single click. The program allows you to recover images, music, documents, videos, emails (from email clients) and compressed files.
Price: Free for personal use and paid for corporate use, priced from $69 to $103 for standalone version (customer support guarantee offered).
Compatibility: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1
4. Pandora Recovery
Pandora Recovery is a multifunctional tool with a huge number of customization options and deep scanning capabilities. The program does not have the same attractive interface as Recuva, but the program is certainly more feature-rich and user-friendly, making it an easy replacement for Recuva. Pandora Recovery allows you to recover FAT32 or NTFS file system. It also comes with a wizard to guide you through the process and allows you to choose how you want to scan.
You can scan by file type, the entire drive, or apply a deep scan to find all files that need recovery. You can connect removable storage devices and scan them by applying all scanning methods to them as well. You'll also find tips to help you understand how each button works as you try to use it.
Price: Is free
Compatibility: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1
5. Minitool Partition Recovery
This is really an amazing tool with a very simple yet attractive interface. However, its free version is only limited to 1GB of data recovery. After that, you will have to upgrade to the paid version. The tool is able to recover data from formatted, damaged and even deleted partitions with amazing results.
The tool does an amazing job of recovering data from a simple disk. Minitool Partition Recovery recovered 5 times more files than the other tools mentioned here and divided all files according to their extensions, which makes it extremely easy to find the right file. Although, it also takes a little longer to scan the drive, but the results are pleasing.
It's a good tool for people who really need a deep scan and don't mind paying if they have to (1GB of data recovery is free). It supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems.
Price: free up to 1 GB, after that, can cost $69 and $89
Compatibility: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1
6. Glary Undelete
Glary Undelete is a simple and lightweight tool with limited features just like some of the other tools on this list. However, it does have some really cool filtering options that you can use to easily find the files you need. You have the option to scan a disk (including a removable one), but it will be a quick scan, not a deep one.
You will be presented with all the data that can be recovered, categorized by their extensions. Here you can filter your search by size, time, status, and file name recovery. Glary Undelete supports FAT, NTFS, NTFS + EFS file systems. Also allows recovery of compressed or encrypted files.
Price: Is free
Compatibility: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1.
7.UndeleteMyFiles Pro
UndeleteMyFiles Pro offers one of the most powerful recovery programs with some handy features. You can separately enable the search for media files or regular files, and if that's not enough, you can also add filters to search for a specific file. For example, you can add filters to only search for a file with a specific name, extension, size, or attributes (as, hidden, or read-only, etc.).
In addition to data recovery tools, you can also use “Files Wiper”, a tool to permanently delete a file or create a “disk image” to make sure that undeleted files are overwritten with other data. The tool also performs a deep scan quite quickly to restore all files. You can find almost twice as many files as some of the fast scanning tools on this list.
Price: Is free
Compatibility: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and Mac OS X.
8.PC Inspector File Recovery
This is an advanced tool for complex use, we would not recommend it for a novice user. It doesn't have such an attractive interface or features. However, the tool will allow you to scan the disk in depth and choose which sectors to scan. A full deep scan of around 40 GB of data can take more than 2 hours.
The results will please, as the tool finds almost all files that can be recovered. You can also add a filter by filename/extension. If you are an advanced user and want to use a deep scan of your computer, then PC Inspector File Recovery will work wonders. It supports FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.
Price: Is free
Compatibility: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1
The best data recovery software for smartphones (Android) and iPhone
Although the above tools can scan and recover data on smartphones via USB connected, they are not made specifically for them. To recover smartphone data such as messages, logs and chat history, etc., you will need to use a separate tool. We advise you to use the tools below to recover your smartphone data.
9.Wondershare Dr.Fone
Wondershare Dr.Fone is a famous data recovery tool for Android and IOS. It is extremely easy to use, with step by step instructions. Using this tool, you can recover contacts, messages, audio, video, photo, call logs and WhatsApp history. All you have to do is connect your phone to your computer and let the tool do the rest.
However, support for compatible phones is limited, supported brands include Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Sony, LG, HTC, and Google Nexus. If your phone is rooted, it will work on any Android phone, and some supported brands may also require root access.
Price: free Trial and Paid version for $45.95 supporting up to 5 devices or $499 supporting unlimited devices.
Compatibility: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, XP and Mac OS X 10.6-10.10 & iTunes 12.1, iOS 8.3/iOS 9, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus and upto Android Lollipop.
10EaseUS MobiSaver
This is another great Android or iPhone data recovery tool. The interface, complexity and recovery are almost the same as Dr.Fone, the difference is in supported formats, devices and price. MobiSaver supports fewer file types for recovery, including SMS, Contacts, Documents, Videos, Audio and Photos. However, it has support for more brands, including Huawei, ZTE, and other Chinese brands.
It's also slightly cheaper, which is a good choice if you don't need to recover your chat history or call log. On the EaseUs website, you will also find some helpful articles to help you recover data from your smartphone (the process is a bit more complicated than on a PC).
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When an important file is lost, a document you spent a week working on is erased, and photos have disappeared from a suddenly formatted memory card, there is no need to worry ahead of time. Deleting a file from a disk erases its description in the system. The set of bytes that made up the file stays in place until something else is written over it. So you can try to recover data using any of these applications.
Be careful if you install applications on the drive where the deleted files were located. There is a risk that the application files will be overwritten during installation. It is better to choose another partition or physical disk for installation.
Platform: Windows.
Price: free, $19.95 for the extended version.
Recuva is able to recover data lost by mistake, for example from an accidentally emptied Recycle Bin. The program can recover photos from an accidentally formatted memory card in a camera, or music from an empty MP3 player. Any media is supported, even iPod memory.
Platform: Windows, Mac.
Price: free, $89 for the extended version.
Disk Drill is a data recovery application for Mac, but there is also a version for Windows. This program supports most types of disks, files and file systems. With its help, you can recover deleted files due to the Recovery Protection function, as well as find and clean the disk. However, the free version does not allow you to recover files lost before installing Disk Drill.
Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS, DOS.
Price: is free.
A very functional and versatile open source application. It has a text interface, but it's easy to understand.
TestDisk supports a huge number of file formats. In addition, the program can be written to a LiveCD to recover data from a disk that does not boot the system. The utility can recover a damaged boot sector or lost data.
TestDisk comes with PhotoRec, which recovers deleted files, photos, music and videos.
4.R-Undelete
Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux.
Price: the free version recovers files up to 256 KB in size; $79.99 for the full version.
R-Undelete is part of R-Studio. This is a whole family of powerful data recovery software. Supported file systems are FAT12/16/32/exFAT, NTFS, NTFS5, HFS/HFS+, UFS1/UFS2 and Ext2/Ext3/Ext4.
R-Studio applications can recover deleted data both on local drives and over the network. In addition to data recovery, the utilities provide tools for advanced partition copying and searching for bad blocks on disks.
Platform: Windows.
Price: free in trial mode with recovery up to 1 GB of data; $69.95 for the full version.
Eassos Recovery recovers deleted files, photos, text documents and more than 550 file formats. The application has a very simple and intuitive interface.
Platform: Windows.
Price: the free version does not save found files; $37.95 for the full version.
Developer Hetman provides a set of utilities for recovering various types of data: entire partitions or individual photos and documents. The program supports all hard drives, flash cards, SD and microSD.
Platform: Windows.
Price: free, $19.97 as part of Glary Utilities.
Glary Undelete can recover any deleted files, including compressed, fragmented or encrypted ones. Filtering of recovered data is supported.
Do you know more convenient and functional data recovery applications? Tell us about them in the comments.
If you have lost valuable files, do not rush to get depressed: data recovery from a hard drive is possible, and you can do it yourself.
A file deleted from a hard disk actually remains on the same disk sectors. In the file table, it has the mark “zero”. As long as this information is not overwritten, the files are recoverable.
The most important thing is to choose the right tool. We have selected the best hard drive data recovery software. In the review, we list the necessary functions of the programs, briefly describe how they work.
2. TestDisk - Recover deleted HDD partitions (Windows / Mac OS / Linux)
Strict console interface of the TestDisk program TestDisk is a data recovery program for . Supports FAT, NTFS, ext2, etc. file systems. It works only from the command line, detailed documentation will help you understand the commands.
It makes sense to use the program in cases where data has been lost
- as a result of errors in the file table,
- in the presence of bad blocks
- when accidentally deleting an HDD partition.
In such cases, other utilities like Recuva or PhotoRec may not be able to handle it.
With TestDisk, you can repair boot sectors, fix tables in FAT, Master File Table - in general, fix errors on your hard drive, which often cause files to be deleted.
If the operating system does not boot and/or you are running Linux, you can make a byte-by-byte copy of HDD partitions and recover files safely without overwriting.
If TestDisk did not help or seemed difficult, test PhotoRec (see below), since the programs are distributed in a common archive.
3. PhotoRec - photo and video recovery on your hard drive (Windows, Linux, Mac OS)
PhotoRec Main Window: Search and Save Settings PhotoRec is a cross-platform disk data recovery software. Searches by file signatures, it is best at finding deleted images and videos.
Altogether PhotoRec covers about 300 file types and 480 file extensions. Data recovery is performed both on the hard drive and removable media - flash drives, memory cards.
You can download the program for free for desktop. Major file systems are supported, including NTFS, FAT, exFAT, ext2/3/4, partially ReiserFS, etc.
Included with the program is the console utility TestDisk. Recall that it is designed to recover deleted partitions, fix the boot record on the disk and other errors on the HDD.
Note. Despite the fact that data recovery on the disk takes place in read mode. when saving files, you need to specify a directory on another disk - otherwise the deleted data will be overwritten.
4.Diskdigger for PC
Diskdigger exists in desktop and mobile editions. We will consider the version for Windows. It supports HDD, SSD, sd cards and usb flash drives and virtual disks (VHD/VDI, etc.) connected to the computer.
The program offers to choose one of two scanning options - Dig deep or Dig Deeper.
Accordingly, the Dig deep method is suitable for recovering files on a hard drive, deleting files to the Recycle Bin, deleting any data in the FAT, exFAT and NTFS file systems.
The Dig Deeper recovery method will be extremely useful in more complex cases related to the deletion of information. This method involves searching for files by signatures, bypassing the file system. Scanning in Dig Deeper mode will take much longer than Dig deep.
It should be noted that the desktop version of Diskdigger has a user-friendly interface and allows you to flexibly configure the search for files on the HDD. It is convenient to use the preview when restoring and saving the results as a list or thumbnails. In general, Diskdigger is designed for photo, audio and video recovery, similar to PhotoRec.
5. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard (Windows)
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is an excellent, although not free, program for recovering deleted files from HDD. However, 500 MB can be restored without purchasing the full version. To do this, just download a 30-day trial version of the product on the website.
Scenarios where the EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard toolkit will be useful:
- Deleting files bypassing the Recycle Bin (via Shift+Delete)
- Deleting an entire HDD partition
- Quick Format Hard Drive
- File corruption or bad blocks
- Hard disk partition is defined as raw
The program interface is simple, beginners will benefit from a step-by-step setup wizard. It allows you to select file types, scan type (Quick Scan / Deep Scan). As the scan progresses, you can view the results in a convenient preview window.
That is why EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is great for recovering images and videos.
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard interface Data Recovery Wizard supports hard disk, SSD, memory card, USB flash drive data recovery.
Supported operating systems include Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, Server 2008 and 2003, 2000 and older.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery supports more than 300 file extensions, suitable for recovering deleted partitions on HDD/SSD, ignores read errors. The description states that the main file systems for searching files are FAT, NTFS and ExFAT. However, Phoenix Windows Data Recovery can bypass and detect files regardless of file system type. For this, a signature search is used, which is activated by the Deep Scan option.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery main window: disk selection The Technician version of the program will be indispensable if the files were in a RAID archive and one of the disks in the array failed. Other versions of the program also have useful additions for backup. However, for home use, the Home or Professional versions ($60 to $100) will be optimal.
7. Minitool Power Data Recovery - a program for recovering files from a hard drive
Minitool Power Data Recovery is a program for recovering data on damaged, faulty hard drives, emergency hdd - those that are not detected on the computer.
MiniTool Power Data Recovery main window: select disk partition Some features of the utility:
- Power Data Recovery recovers entire disks, works with large dynamic disks (> 1TB), RAID arrays,
- when scanning, it bypasses errors, reads data, bad blocks cyclically, puts the head into a “sparing” mode when reading information from a disk,
- works with FAT 16/32 file systems,
- The “deep scan” option allows you to find deleted files that are not detected during normal scanning,
- Free recovery of 1024 MB of any data.
How to recover information from a hard drive
The program has a step-by-step data recovery wizard. After selecting the Logical drive and pressing the Scan button, the Scan Results list will be displayed. Files are sorted by File name, Size, Creation date.
Video how to work with Power Data Recovery program:
8. Undelete Plus (Windows)
Undelete Plus main window interface Undelete Plus is a shareware program for recovering deleted files. Supports recovery:
- office documents and mail,
- photo, video, mp3 audio,
- files after emptying the Windows Recycle Bin,
- system drive after formatting/reinstalling Windows.
Undelete Plus works on all versions of Windows and supports FAT or NTFS storage devices.
Similar to Recuva, the program determines the recovery probability for found files. You can sort the results by type, set filters by time and size.
9. Glary Undelete: Hard Disk Data Recovery
Glary Undelete is a free HDD file recovery software that is easy to use with a user-friendly interface.
Recovery on HDD using Glary Undelete Glary Undelete recovers files from hard drives, SSDs, any removable media devices - memory cards, USB flash drives, etc.
There are no settings, to get started, you need to click Start. There is a filter by name / date / size. Grouping results by file extension is available in the sidebar. The probability of recovery for each file can be found in the “Status” column.
10. R-Studio is a popular hard drive data recovery software
11. Puran File Recovery is a simple FAT/NTFS disk recovery software
It cannot be said that Puran File Recovery stands out from other data recovery programs in the review. Nevertheless, we list the main functional features of this free product.
Puran File Recovery works with Windows 8, 7, Vista, and XP. The application is available in portable form and for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows, so it does not require installation. The program has a simple and fast interface.
Supported file systems are FAT12/16/32 and NTFS. If the disk is removed or has a raw format, the Full Scan option will detect the partition and then recover data from the hard disk in the normal mode.
There are two modes of data recovery from HDD - scanning of deleted information fast and deep (byte by byte). Deep scanning does not just search for entries in the file table, Puran File Recovery scans for known patterns, trying to detect a particular format. By the way, the utility is able to recognize about 50 file types.
Found files are restored with full paths and names (if possible). Before saving to disk, the user can sort the recovery results, view files in preview mode.
Tools included with Puran File Recovery Other Disk Recovery Software
- (now "EASEUS Data Recovery"): professional recovery of damaged data in FAT and NTFS file systems.
- Data Rescue PC3: a program for finding deleted files from Prosoft Engineering, supports FAT and NTFS file systems
- : file and SSD partition recovery software for Windows and .
- FileSalvage: data recovery from disk, resuscitation of deleted / damaged information
- : works under Microsoft Windows 2000 and above, supports FAT, NTFS and HFS file systems, RAID arrays.
- : Reanimate damaged data on NTFS, HFS, FAT 16/32 partitions.
Answers to questions from readers
1. Accidentally slammed the lid of a Lenovo laptop. I don’t know because of this or not, the Windows OS itself was reinstalled and all information from the Desktop disappeared. Then a window with a red cross Windows appeared. There it was proposed to print out the instructions and save to a USB flash drive, something about the hard drive and not use the computer until we restore the hard drive. What should I do, I would like to recover files on my hard drive :-)
2. There were files on the desktop. They disappeared. Found only titles in MS Word. Please help me so that I can work with them as before.
Answer. The answer will be short. See programs for recovering data from a hard drive above in the list. Specify in the list the system drive on which WIndows was installed. In case you need to return some files from the Desktop, when scanning, specify "[system drive letter] > Users > [User name] > Desktop.
After reinstalling the system, photos and videos were not copied to the hard drive and, apparently, were deleted. Is free data recovery from hdd possible now?
Answer. The question is imprecise in its wording, but it is easy to answer. Use any recovery program mentioned in the article. Actually, before the process of data resuscitation, it is highly undesirable to use the hard drive to write and read information, so if possible, install the software on another medium and do not work in the OS until the data recovery on the disk begins.
Yesterday I deleted the entire folder on the hard drive. There was 1 GB of content, there were a lot of folders and other valuable data! I looked a few times and there was nothing there. Then she took and deleted the entire folder, but it turned out that my hidden photos and videos were there ... How to recover data from a hard drive?
Answer. For these purposes, almost any program for data recovery is suitable. For example, R-Studio, Minitool Power Data Recovery, Power Data Recovery, or Recuva. In general, there is no shortage of such programs, choose any, read the instructions on Softdroid and proceed to recovery.
I uploaded files to the mail.ru cloud, after a few days the files disappeared. Before that, I came from another device - the files were in place! Is it possible to recover files for free?
Answer. Yes, recovering files from your hard drive is quite possible if you have synchronized files uploaded to the Mail.ru cloud with your PC. To do this, you need to use R-Studio, Minitool Power Data Recovery or other tools. After installing the file recovery program, point it to the drive where the synchronized cloud files were located. The next steps, I believe, you know.
My son's favorite computer game crashed. I wanted to download it again, but he does not want to start it from the very beginning. Writes "application error". Will data recovery programs help? Thanks in advance.
Answer. Theoretically, you can recover files (deleted game saves) using hard drive data recovery programs. To do this, find out where the saves of a particular game are stored, run a file search, etc., everything is as usual when restoring. However, it is not entirely clear how your saves “blew off”, in what circumstances this happened. It is possible that you do not need the help of data recovery programs, since many games store saves in a Windows user folder separate from the actual game application. Install the game again and see if you can open saves inside the game.
Lost information. After recovering lost files, I have damaged files that I don't know how to recover. The information is very necessary. How to recover a damaged file? Tell me the way out.
Answer. This information is not enough to correctly answer your question. If you recovered files yourself and as a result received some of the information in a damaged form, this means that the deleted files have already been overwritten with new information, and this process is irreversible.
It is less likely that you have used poor quality recovery software or selected the wrong scan mode. However, we suggest that you try to recover corrupted files again using .