Try it before buying a recovery tool.Consistently rated by experts among the top five free data recovery software packages, Recuva makes a tedious task about as easy as possible. Like CCleaner, Recuva is fast, reliable, and delivers a lot for freeware.

To us, that seems like a good time to have a local copy of the Help file. Online help file: Recuva's Web-based Help file supposedly keeps the download smaller, but including a Help file would take up less space than the portable version that's supposedly useful when Internet connections are down. ConsĪdvanced Mode switchback: The Advanced Mode shows file paths, info, and headers in a list view instead of thumbnails, which is fine, except there's no way to toggle back to the normal view. It runs without an installer, so it can find and recover files in damaged systems. Portable version: Recuva includes a fully portable version that fits on a USB drive. We could also scan by File Location ranging from 'I'm not sure' to CD/DVD and enable the Deep Scan option.Ĭontext menu integration: The Advanced Options include adding 'Scan for deleted files' to Explorer and Recycle Bin context menus. Wizard: The Recuva Wizard dialog let us scan All Files or just Pictures, Music, Documents, Video, Compressed, or Emails. Fast, focused scans find just the files you want and deep Scans find lost, damaged, and deleted files anywhere in your system, including portable, removable, and unmounted drives and even CDs and DVDs.

Recuva undeletes files recovers data from corrupted, damaged, and reformatted discs restores unsaved Word documents and securely deletes files so they're unrecoverable, even by Recuva.

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