Accidentally deleting your precious pictures, photos, and files is bound to
happen to anyone of us sooner or later. I hope that you do not encounter this
dilemma, however if you do, you may possibly have a chance to recover the files
that you have deleted. One way
is to get a professional IT guy that specializes in file or data recovery, which
in itself can be very expensive. The other way is to buy a program that recovers
and restores your deleted files and photos.
Well
this is your lucky day because you have actually hit the jackpot by finding this
fantastic free program called Recuva. I know I was ecstatic when I found it and
actually recovered my irreplaceable family photos that I had accidentally
deleted from the recycle bin. I seriously thought that it would not work,
because after all, it is a free program after all.
"Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware
Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your
computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and
other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory
cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by
bugs, crashes and viruses!" Quoted from the
Recuva website, it just
sounded too good to be true.
When can you use Recuva to recover and restore your deleted pictures, photos,
and files?
When
you have recently accidentally deleted a file, photo, or picture from your
computer
When
you haven't used your computer too much and overwritten the deleted file
When
this program says “No overwritten clusters
detected” and that the file is in Excellent state after scanning your
drive
When can't you use Recuva to recover and restore your deleted pictures, photos,
and files?
When
you have formatted your computer hard drive
Sometimes if you have defragged your computer
If the
program says the file has overwritten clusters
What are the results from my tests with recvua?
I have
two hard drives and scanned both. One is C drive and one is D drive. C drive is
the main hard drive and D is storage. Nearly all the files that showed up were
available for recovery.
D drive
had very old files show up. Half the stuff I could hardly remember because I had
been storing files on there for a few years.
C drive
had less as I had recently formatted it, but all the recent deleted filed were
available.
Then I
decided to defrag C: and then scan it again. This definitely reduced the number
of files that were in Excellent condition to recover. It probably overwrote 75%
of files by defragging.
I was
amazed at what it actually recovered. It had every little thing that had been
stored in my internet history, cookies, and other stuff that you thought would
have been gone. It was almost scary how much detail this program went in to. All
this from a free program.
What does Windows do with deleted pictures, photos, and files.
Even
when you have deleted a file from the recycle bin it is not really gone. Windows
simply marks the file as deleted, and waits for the space to be
overwritten for it really to be deleted. If you didn't format or defrag the
drive the file may possibly be there for years to come. This is what happened
with my D drive.
Notes:
Files
that has Excellent state and with the comment No
overwritten clusters detected can be recovered.
You
should always recover your file to another drive as you might overwrite the file
your are trying to recover.
You
can also recover deleted photos from your camera storage card! How great is
that?
This
program is totally free and is made be the same guys that made Ccleaner. Their
programs do no nag you to upgrade and they have no spyware contained in them.
All they have is a donation button on their site. So if you find this free
program handy then go and give these guys a donation.
Mitz Pantic wrote this article and others for
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