Programs for recovering deleted files after formatting. Utilities for recovering accidentally deleted and lost files

Modern hard drives are increasing in capacity and speed year after year, becoming more compact, technologically advanced, but... less reliable. Manufacturers do not care about quality: they strive to flood the market with their products and leave competitors “in the dust.” It is more profitable for them to exchange defective drives for new ones than to work on increasing their resistance to failures.

“What about the data? - you ask. “After all, they die along with the disk!” Data, friends, is our problem. We must think about how not to lose them. And if this happens, be able to save them. Today we’ll talk about how to recover data from a hard drive without resorting to the help of experts. And also about situations when you should not try to get them yourself, but it is better to immediately take the disk to a specialized service.

The easiest to restore are:

• Files and folders deleted by the user past the recycle bin (by pressing Shift + Delete).

• Information corrupted due to a file system failure.
• Files erased by viruses.
• Data in formatted partitions (with the exception of “low-level” formatting, in which all information on the disk is overwritten with zeros).

However, there cannot be a 100% guarantee of success in this matter. The files and folders that have been recently deleted have the greatest chance of survival, that is, the areas of the disk where they were stored were not overwritten. In the latter case, the chances of recovering information after a quick format are as high as possible, since in this case only the table of file allocation in the partition is erased, and the files themselves remain in place.

In the following cases, data recovery is impossible or the probability of this is very low:

• If the disk drive was formatted at a low level (essentially overwritten).
• If the information was deleted using a file shredder application.
• When another information was written on top of the deleted information. For example, if a user accidentally formatted, say, the C drive to reinstall Windows, but only remembered that there were important files on it after installing a new system.
• In case of physical damage to the magnetic layer on which information is stored.
• When files are damaged by encryption viruses, if there is no decryption key or effective decryptor. Searching for a key using the brute force method (brute force search) is, with rare exceptions, ineffective. The reason is that today there are more and more viruses that use strong 128- or 256-bit encryption. It is impossible to find a key for it with the current level of technology (and for 256 bits it is impossible in principle).

In the event of a hardware failure of the drive, if the electronics board has fallen or mechanical parts have failed, the probability of successful data recovery is about 50%. More precisely, it all depends on the type of breakdown and the qualifications of the technician. Unfortunately, it is not possible to recover information from a physically damaged disk using programs. Quite the contrary: attempts to turn on a disk that has broken down are fraught with irretrievable loss of data.

In what cases is it better to do nothing and take the device to a specialized service:

• When the disk is not detected by the computer or periodically disappears (except for the case described below). Moreover, if it does not work at all: when connected, it does not show any signs of “life”, does not spin up, and does not get warm. For testing, an external drive must be connected to the computer like a regular internal one (via a SATA or IDE port, if available), since if only the USB interface fails, the data is usually not damaged.
• When the hard drive has been hit or dropped. In this case, you should not even try to turn it on.
• If, when accessing the disk, messages appear about serious problems with it or the operating system crashes into BSoD (blue screen of death).
• If there is a suspicion that the hard drive housing is leaking. By the way, under no circumstances should you open it yourself. A speck of dust that gets inside can damage the magnetic layer and irreversibly destroy the information on it the first time it is turned on.
• In case of visible defects in the connection interfaces and the disk electronics board.
• If there is a suspicion that liquid has entered the drive housing. This happens when a removable hard drive is placed in a bag next to a wet umbrella.

Data recovery services at service centers are not a cheap pleasure. “Treatment” of the mildest cases costs about half the cost of the drive (this is if the drive itself can be brought back to life without losing data). In difficult situations, the cost is 2 or more than the price of a new disk. It depends on the amount of information and the complexity of the restoration work.

What to do if the hard drive is not detected by the computer, freezes or works with errors

This life hack only applies to hard drives that have been in use for at least six months.

On the bottom side of the hard drive electronics board there are contact pads that are connected to the block of magnetic heads (BGM, a device for reading and writing information to the magnetic layer) with a flexible cable that goes inside the hermetic zone (disk case).

Over time, especially if the disk has been used in conditions of high humidity and significant heating, these areas are covered with a non-conducting layer of oxides - they become dull and dark, sometimes to the point of blackness. The oxide layer disrupts the contact between the HDM and the controller, which has an extremely negative impact on the operation of the disk: read/write errors, recognition problems, lags and other unpleasant things occur.

The solution to the problem is very simple: just remove the electronics board (for this you most often need a T6 screwdriver - a six-pointed star), clean the pads until they shine with a school eraser and wipe with alcohol. After such a simple procedure, many drives begin to work like new.

Programs for data recovery at home

is one of the most popular free utilities for data recovery on a Windows PC. It is especially effective at restoring objects that have been removed past the recycle bin. It supports almost all types of files: graphics, music, videos, archives, documents, email messages and much more.

Recuva is capable of reading information not only from healthy, but also from logically damaged devices, as well as from formatted disk partitions. It recognizes any type of media - hard and optical drives, SSDs, flash drives, memory cards, mobile device drives, etc. Works with NTFS, FAT16-32 and ExFat file systems.

How to use the program:

• Download the installation or portable version of Recuva. Install or unpack it into a separate folder and run it with administrator rights.
• If the program interface opens in English, you can switch to Russian for convenience: click the “Options” button and select “Russian” from the “Language” list on the “General” tab.

• While in the main window, open the list of disk partitions and connected drives. Select the area from which you want to recover information.
• In the search bar (marked with a magnifying glass icon), enter the path to the object you are looking for, or click on the arrow and select the type of file you want to restore. In our example, this is graphics. By the way, text documents can be searched by keywords. To do this, open the "Analysis" menu and select "View Content." The “File Mask” field should indicate the type of document (doc, pdf, etc.), and in the “Search Line” you should indicate the word or phrase that the program should search for. After filling out both fields, click the “Analyze” button.

• A list of found documents (or files of another type, depending on what you specified in the settings) will be displayed in the main Recuva window. In some cases, before recovery, you can see the contents of text documents and pictures in the “View” field (to the right of the list). The “Summary” contains information about the file: name, size, status and number of overwritten clusters. In the “Header”, accordingly, there are header service data.
• Each list item has a colored circle next to it. Green indicates a good opportunity to recover deleted files. Yellow indicates a questionable one, and red indicates its absence (since a significant part of the file has been overwritten).
• Select the objects you want to return from the list and click the “Restore” button. Select the folder where the program should save them. It is important that this is a different logical partition of the same disk or a different physical device.

DMDE

DMDE is a cross-platform utility for restoring, backing up and editing the contents of drives. Works on Windows, Linux and DOS. Supports the following file systems: FAT12-16-32, ExFAT, NTFS, NTFS5, Ext2-3-4, HFSX, HFS+, and RAW (unspecified). Capable of extracting data from healthy and damaged hard drives, solid-state drives and RAID arrays, as well as their sector-by-sector copies created in the program itself. Recovers not only deleted files, but also entire partitions that are no longer detectable due to corrupted service information. Has RAID reconstruction functions.

DMDE is available in free and two paid versions - home and commercial. The difference between the free version and the paid home edition is the absence of a group file recovery function and a quantitative limitation - the program allows you to restore up to 4000 objects from the current panel.

All versions of DMDE work without installation - just unpack the archive into a separate folder and run the Dmde.exe file.

How to use the utility:

• After the main DMDE window appears on the screen, click the “Select Disk” top menu button. Select the device or logical partition from which you want to recover information. Confirm your choice.

• Next, select the desired partition again and click “Open Volume”.

• In the left panel of the next window, select the “All found + reconstruction” option. Specify the file system reconstruction method and the search objects: all files, including deleted files, only deleted files, or all files excluding deleted files. If you want to get a list of only missing files, select “only deleted”, otherwise it may become too large.

• After the program displays a list of everything found, right-click on the object of interest and select “Restore object” from the menu.

• On the first tab of the recovery options window, specify the location to save the object.

• On the “Filters” tab, you can set a mask of file names, their sizes (from and to) and exclude empty folders from processing.

• As a rule, you don’t need to change anything in the settings. After clicking “OK”, the program will immediately begin the recovery process.

If the recovered files cannot be opened or the utility did not find what you wanted, the developers recommend performing a full scan of the volume and repeating the operation.

Or return to the disk selection section and try to read other volumes.

— a powerful software package of recovery tools for rescuing data from all types of media, including deeply damaged ones. This utility is often resorted to in cases where nothing else has helped.

Features of R-Studio include support for all types of drives and file systems, including undefined (RAW). And also - an improved algorithm for searching and restoring damaged and partially overwritten files. Additionally, the program contains functions for RAID reconstruction and creating virtual disk images from which information can be read as from physical ones.

How to use R-studio:

• Install and run the utility with administrator rights. The main window will display a list of connected drives.
• Specify the media or partition from which you want to recover data and click the “Scan” button.

• In the scanning settings window, define the file types that need to be found (the “Known file types” button), the rest can be left as default. To continue, click "Scan".

• After the scan is completed, go to the “Disk” menu and click the “Recover all files” option.

• Specify the location to save what you found and, if necessary, other recovery options (shown in the screenshot below). Click “Yes” to confirm. Wait until the operation is completed.

R-studio is an effective, but paid and very expensive program. However, there are “corrected” versions of it on the Internet.

How to properly recover information

• The location where restored objects are saved should never be the same logical partition from which they were read.
• It is better not to postpone the data recovery procedure until later. The fewer disk operations, the higher the chances of success.
• If the program's capabilities allow, create a virtual image of the partition or device on which the objects of interest are located, and restore from it. This will protect you from irretrievable data loss due to accidental overwriting or sudden drive failure.
• If you are restoring from physical media, try to complete everything in one session. Repeated attempts may be less successful.

Each of us may well be faced with the need to extract valuable files from a damaged drive. And it doesn’t matter what it is - a hard drive or a flash drive - the information stored on such media sometimes requires mandatory recovery.

It happens that the user mechanically presses the wrong key, and the program is simply deleted from the hard drive. What to do in this case?

DiskInternals Uneraser

DiskInternals Research offers users a small but quite effective utility. It is capable of recovering lost files on any drive and works with various file systems (FAT16 and NTFS5).

In addition, it supports long names and allows you to restore not only partitions, but also their subsections.

The first step in working with this utility is to select a logical drive or folder to be tested for deleted files. Next, you need to select the type of files you are looking for from the five groups presented.

Among them are the following:

• Images;
• video;
• music;
• documentation;
• archive files.

If you want to narrow the search field, select the required type. If not, check all groups. In this case, the search will take a little longer.

After the program finishes processing the information, it will remain press the button"Finish". A search results window will open in which you will need to select the files that you want to restore.

It is worth noting that for some files it is impossible to determine the partition in which they were located. This occurs when working with the NTFS file system and is due to its specifics.

• works with any file system;
• Recovers most popular formats.

• The recovery process takes quite a long time.

Review

Vitaly. The best I have found among programs of this type. I'm surprised that, with such a small size, it works with any type of file. Like any other, it can’t restore all files, but there’s nothing you can do about it.

Recuva

Even a novice user will not have any problems installing the program. Everything is extremely clear, and besides, it is completely in Russian.

Working with it is also quite simple. After starting the program, you will see a working window containing all the necessary tools.

In its upper left part there is a drop-down list in which you need to select the one being tested. After this, click on the “Analysis” button and wait for the end of the running process.

After it is completed, you will be presented with a list of files that can be recovered. The application is quite simple and has minimal settings.

At the user's request, it is possible configure the following parameters:

• show or hide files located in system folders;
• whether to show files that have been securely deleted;
• whether or not to display files that have a size of zero;
• Save the settings to a file with the extension “.ini” so that you can transfer them to another computer.

• ease of use;
• recovery of files of various formats;
• free distribution.

• not all files can be recovered;
• When restoring, it changes the file creation date.

Review

kikichtoriya. I used the program because I accidentally deleted my course work from the flash drive. I was shocked, but the program quickly restored everything. I don’t know how it copes with searching and restoring long-deleted files, but it works great with “fresh” ones.

Helpful information:

Pay attention to the program. This is a tool for resuscitating deleted, lost and damaged files. The program recognizes all common types of documents, the number of which exceeds 550 pieces.

7-Data Recovery Suite

This utility not only supports the Russian language, but also has quite rich functionality.

It allows you to restore lost information not only after accidental deletion, but even when the storage medium has been formatted.

Recovery Suite has a deep scanning feature that allows you to identify fairly old traces of files.

These traces are used to restore them.

The working window contains several sections, among which are the following:

Advantages of 7-Data Recovery Suite

• works with any media;
• recovers files even after formatting;
• the interface is simple and clear.

• The free version has limitations.

Review

Ellymi. A very useful utility, and also quite simple. With its help, information was recovered from a formatted flash drive. The only annoying thing is that the free version has space limitations.

Active File Recovery

This small utility works with almost all file systems.

It can work with a hard drive even if its logical structure is damaged.

With its help, you can create a disk image and then transfer it to another drive.

Recognizes any type of media - , SunDisk, CompactFlash and others.

The program is quite interesting, but requires payment.

• work with any type of media;
• clear interface;

• requires purchase.

Review

Vadim. The program is good, but the recovered files should not exceed 2 gigs. I restored HDTV movies that weighed 4.5 GB, so they restored them in pieces of 2 gigabytes. This is, of course, depressing.

Active UNDELETE Professional

Hello!

Almost every computer user has at least once grabbed his head and regretted that he deleted a necessary file or document from the disk (or, for example, accidentally formatted the media through his actions). But in many cases, it is possible to partially or even completely restore information - the main thing is to do everything correctly, so to speak, without fuss and haste!

To recover data need special utilities and programs. There are a lot of them now, and most of them are quite expensive (and, having paid for the software, it is unknown whether it will justify itself, whether it will be able to help restore data).

That's why, in this article I will give the best free programs that will help scan your disk and find files that can be recovered (even after deleting them from the recycle bin or formatting the disk).

👉 For reference: you probably noticed that copying a file takes a long time - and deleting it takes a couple of seconds! The fact is that after you delete a file and empty the trash, it does not physically disappear anywhere from the disk.

The file system simply excludes certain areas of the disk - it believes that there is no longer a deleted file on them, they are free, and any other information can be written to them.

Therefore, the less you work with the disk after deleting a file, the higher the likelihood of recovering information from it (since the likelihood that something will be written to the same areas of the disk is minimal!).

👉 A couple of important rules:

1. As soon as you notice the file is missing, try not to use this disk/flash drive. It’s better to disconnect it from the PC altogether (especially not to agree to format it, fix errors, etc., which Windows recommends).
2. do not restore data to the same media you scanned: i.e. if you are trying to recover photos from a flash drive, restore them to disk! The fact is that copying new information to the media from which you are restoring files can erase the remnants of the information that you are restoring (I wrote it chaotically, but I think the meaning is clear 👌).
3. If one of the programs couldn’t find and restore anything, don’t despair, try another (or better yet, 3-4)!

10 best programs for file recovery

R.Saver

A very simple program for recovering files from various media (hard drives, flash drives, external drives, etc.). Supports a variety of file systems: NTFS, FAT and ExFAT.

It is based on the algorithms of professional versions of the UFS Explorer program. By the way, the R.saver program is free only for non-commercial use in the following countries: Ukraine, Russia, Belarus (and a number of others).

Main advantages:

1. the ability to restore data after: formatting, file system failure, deletion;
2. professional algorithms for scanning and recovering files;
3. good community and support on the official website (asking a question in time is sometimes worth a lot!);
4. there is support for automatic assembly of a RAID array (provided all devices are connected);
5. support for many file systems of different OS: ExFAT, FAT/FAT32, NTFS, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, ReiserFS, JFS, XFS, UFS/UFS2, Adaptec UFS, Open ZFS, etc.;
6. simple and user-friendly interface in a minimalist style;
7. Russian language support.

Recuva

This is probably one of the best free file recovery utilities! Despite its relatively small size, the utility is very effective in recovering data that was accidentally deleted from a hard drive or flash drive.

The program is designed taking into account that it will be used by novice users, so it is very easy and simple to use - it has a step-by-step wizard that will help you set all the necessary settings.

The algorithm for working with the program is quite simple: after setting the parameters and selecting a disk, it scans it and gives you all the files that can be recovered. By the way, if we are talking about pictures or photos, then you can generally view them before restoring them (example in the screenshot above).

You will also be able to find out the name of the file, where it was previously saved, and its current state (the program marks files with different colors: green - excellent (high probability of normal recovery), yellow - average, red - bad (recovery unlikely)) . All you have to do is check the boxes that you need and start restoring.

Main advantages:

1. there is a step-by-step wizard for unprepared users;
2. 2 disk scanning modes (simple and advanced. Advanced takes longer, but allows you to find more deleted files);
3. recovery of not only accidentally deleted data, but also the ability to work after unsuccessful disk formatting, search for unsaved documents, mailbox messages and much more;
4. Convenient file sorting (name, path, size, status, etc.);
5. the ability to permanently delete files;
6. The utility is free and supports the Russian language;
7. Compatible with all versions of Windows: XP/Vista/7/8/10.

Disk Drill (Pandora Recovery)

Pandora Recovery - https://www.pandorarecovery.com/(became Disk Drill)

Note: Free data recovery up to 500 MB!

Disk Drill is a free program for recovering deleted files (supports recovery of pictures, photos, documents, music, etc.). The program can work with almost any media: memory cards, flash drives, hard drives, external drives, iPod, etc.

The application can recover data not only after deleting it from the recycle bin, but also after formatting the disk, changing partitions, virus infection, or file system failure.

Main advantages:

1. 2 types of scanning: fast and deep;
2. unique data recovery algorithms;
3. the ability to enable a data protection algorithm (you can restore any deleted data in a few clicks);
4. you can recover lost files on system drives and external devices, memory cards, USB flash drives, laptops and other devices;
5. support for multiple file systems: NTFS, FAT32, EXT, HFS+, etc.;
6. simple intuitive interface, designed in a minimalist style;
7. The program supports Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 (32/64 bits).

Transcend RecoveRx

A practical and very convenient program for restoring any documents and files after accidental deletion (including after formatting the hard drive). Transcend RecoveRx can work with different types of drives and different file systems (HDD, SSD, USB flash drives, memory cards, etc.).

Separately, we can note the interface: everything is done simply, consistently, there are no difficult-to-customize parameters. There is a step-by-step wizard that will help you recover data even for a completely inexperienced user.

Main advantages:

1. a fairly powerful algorithm for scanning and recovering deleted files;
2. aimed at novice users: there is a step-by-step recovery wizard;
3. there is a function to protect data from SD and CompactFlash memory cards;
4. you can search for files by a specific type: photos, documents, audio and video files;
5. All major types of storage devices are supported: memory cards, MP3 players, USB flash drives, hard drives (HDD) and SSD drives;
6. Works in all modern versions of Windows.

MiniTool Power Data Recovery

Note: the free version of the program has a limit (1024 MB) for saving recovered information.

Power Data Recovery is a very powerful and effective program that can recover information from drives even in the most dire cases (when other utilities “refuse” to do this).

Such cases include: virus attacks, formatting the media, using the FDISK program, damage to the MBR boot sector, problems when creating partitions (and working with them), incorrect shutdown of the PC (for example, during power surges), etc.

Main advantages:

1. very powerful algorithms allow you to recover files when other utilities are powerless;
2. convenient list of displaying recoverable files;
3. support for all popular file systems: FAT 12/16/32, NTFS (including NTFS5), etc.;
4. support for RAID arrays;
5. there is a virtual assistant available (for novice users);
6. support for different types of storage devices: HDDs, SSDs, memory cards, flash drives, etc.;
7. Works with all popular Windows OS: 7/8/10.

Of the shortcomings, I would highlight the most important one - there is no official support for the Russian language (I hope that only for now 👌).

PC INSPECTOR File Recovery

PC INSPECTOR File Recovery is a free program designed to recover deleted information.

The program supports Windows file systems: FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS. The hard drive is visible even in cases where the boot sector and file allocation table have been damaged or deleted.

It is possible to search for a specific file format (the program supports all the most popular ones, the list is given below).

Main features:

1. good algorithm for searching for deleted information;
2. can restore files to their original creation/copy date;
3. it is possible to work with network drives;
4. file system support: FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS;
5. simple and concise interface;
6. support for many file formats: ARJ, AVI, BMP, CDR, DOC, DXF, DBF, XLS, EXE, GIF, HLP, HTML, HTM, JPG, LZH, MID, MOV, MP3, PDF, PNG, RTF, TAR, TIF , WAV and ZIP;
7. works on Windows XP/7/8/10.

Wise Data Recovery

Wise Data Recovery is a free program for recovering deleted photos, documents, videos, music, and email messages. The program sees not only local hard drives, but also all connected external drives, flash drives, memory cards, and other devices.

The program has a special function that allows you to evaluate the chances of being able to recover a particular file: in front of each file a special indicator will light up (green, yellow, red). The most likely successful recovery is for green files...

Main features:

1. quick scanning of any drives connected to the system;
2. convenient and simple interface;
3. compact size - only a few MB;
4. support for Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP;
5. Russian language support.

CD Recovery Toolbox

CD Recovery Toolbox - this utility is designed to recover data from CD/DVD discs (a variety of types are supported: CD, DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, etc.).

The program scans and finds files of various formats: music, movies, pictures, photos, documents. During the scanning process, the program applies several algorithms, which greatly increases its efficiency!

In general, it is quite an indispensable utility when working with CDs.

Main features:

1. several algorithms for scanning and detecting files;
2. after work - the program provides a detailed report;
3. can recover files larger than 4 GB;
4. detailed settings on where to save recovered files, what to save and what not, detailed information about the files is displayed;
5. works on Windows 7/8/10.

Glary Undelete

This utility is part of a package of programs from Glary Soft (which it would be nice for every user to have on their PC - after all, everything they need is there: optimization and fine-tuning of Windows, working with disks, files, the registry and much more).

As for directly Glary Undelete- then it is a free and quite high-quality utility for recovering deleted information. The utility supports all the most popular file systems: FAT, NTFS, NTFS + EFS. Allows you to recover, among other things, compressed and encrypted files in the NTFS file system.

There are filters by name, date, size, and recovery capabilities (very convenient when you have found thousands of files on a disk, and you only need to select something specific).

The interface is very simple: drives, folders, etc. are displayed on the left, files on the right. At the top of the program: filters and search bar. All modern Windows 7/8/10 systems are supported.

Undelete 360

Undelete 360 ​​is a very good program for recovering deleted information from various storage devices (supported: hard drive, flash drive, memory card, digital camera, etc.).

The program works directly with the drive (bypassing Windows OS), allowing you to find and restore files in the event of a variety of problems: from simple careless deletion of a file, to formatting and a virus attack.

What's also captivating about this utility is that it can filter found files by their type and by the folder from which they were deleted. There is a file preview, which is very important for photos and pictures.

Undelete 360 ​​supports and works with the following file types:

1. documents: DOC, XLS, RTF, PDF, PPT, MDB, HTML, CSV, TXT, PAS, CPP, EML;
2. audio and video files: AVI, MP3, WAV, WMA, MPG, MOV, ASF, etc.;
3. photos and pictures: JPEG, JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIF, TGA, EML, RAW, etc.

When an important file is lost, a document you spent a week on is erased, and photos disappear from a suddenly formatted memory card, there is no need to worry ahead of time. When you delete a file from the disk, its description in the system is erased. The set of bytes that made up the file remains in place until something else is written on top of them. So you can try to recover your data using any of these applications.

Be careful if you install applications on a drive where deleted files were located. There is a risk that application files will be overwritten during installation. It is better to select another partition or physical disk for installation.

Platform: Windows.
Price: free, $19.95 for premium version.

Recuva can recover data lost by mistake, for example from an accidentally emptied Recycle Bin. The program can return photos from an accidentally formatted memory card in the camera or music from an empty MP3 player. Any media is supported, even iPod memory.

Platform: Windows, Mac.
Price: free, $89 for premium 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 restore erased files using 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: for free.

A very functional and versatile open source application. It has a text interface, but it is not difficult to understand.

TestDisk supports a huge number of file formats. In addition, the program can be burned onto a LiveCD to recover data from a disk on which the system does not boot. The utility can recover a damaged boot sector or lost data.

TestDisk comes with the PhotoRec program, which recovers erased 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 full version.

R-Undelete is part of R-Studio. This is a whole family of powerful data recovery programs. 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 of up to 1 GB of data; $69.95 for 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 full version.

The Hetman developer provides a set of utilities for recovering various types of data: entire sections or individual photos and documents. The program supports all hard drives, flash cards, SD and microSD.

Platform: Windows.
Price: free, $19.97 included with 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.

A lot of technologies have already been invented to save data. No longer does any program delete a file without confirmation. Recycle bins are overflowing with junk files. But still, every now and then I hear cries of “I accidentally deleted this file, but it is very, very necessary!!!”
First of all, I recommend using backup. But there are situations when this is not possible. For example, someone accidentally erased all the photos on a camera’s memory card or flash drive. In this case, DiscDigger or Recuva will help you recover deleted files.

DiscDigger

DiscDigger is a program for recovering data from various types of media, such as memory cards, flash drives, hard drives or floppy disks.
The program interface is so simple that it is difficult to get confused. First, you are asked to select a drive to scan. The Physical Media section displays the physical devices available for scanning. The Logical Drives section shows logical drives, indicating the drive letter. If you are simply recovering accidentally deleted files from a hard drive or flash drive, you just need to select the appropriate logical drive. If files were lost as a result of disk re-partitioning, then scanning the entire physical media is indispensable.
After selecting the disk, we determine the scan type. Scan file system for deleted files will help restore only recently deleted files, but will restore them quickly and with the same file names. Scan disc surface for traces of files – a deeper scan that allows you to recover files even if only memories remain from the file system.
For the surface scanning mode, you need to select the types of files that you want to recover. The program supports the most common image, document, audio and video file formats.
Found files are divided by type into several tabs (Pictures, Documents, Music/Video).
Already during the scanning process, the found files can be viewed. The preview window is very simple, but this is usually enough to decide whether the file is needed or not. And also determine how damaged it is.

To restore the file, click on the button with the floppy disk and the inscription Save.

In this way, it was possible to recover long-deleted files from a flash drive and hard drive.
I hope DiscDigger will help you get out of some sticky situations with minimal losses.

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Recuva

Recuva is a program for recovering lost data that was accidentally or deliberately deleted without leaving any traces. Recuva stands out for its very friendly interface, support for the Russian language and the presence of a free version that does not have any restrictions.

When you first launch the program, you will be greeted by a Recuva wizard who will help you search for data. First you will need to select a file type: pictures, music, documents, videos, compressed files, emails, or show all files if you are not sure of the format. After this, you need to select the location where the files were located (hard drive, flash drive or any other available media). As with the format, you can specify an “everywhere” position if you are having trouble deciding where to place it. After setting the necessary parameters, the analysis will begin; you can choose an in-depth analysis, which will take longer but will show more accurate results. As a result, a table of found files will appear indicating the location and the probability of recovery (excellent, average, bad or completely lost). Next, select files and restore files in one click.

Advice: Before scanning, enable in-depth analysis (Deep Scan). Thus, the chances of recovery are much greater.

In the settings, you can change the language, select the mode for displaying recovered files, and enable or disable the wizard at startup. Additionally, you can configure automatic checking for updates, “reliable” removal settings, as well as some settings for search and recovery.