
Ideally install Recuva before you need it, as just browsing the internet and downloading the installer creates a huge number of temporary files and any one of them could over write the file you are trying to recover. It also supports most digital cameras card formats, so you can restore those images you accidentally deleted! Turn off any applications you don’t need, if you are trying to recover files from a media card, stop using that card immediately. It’s fast, small and will run from a USB drive. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses! Recuva is a new file recovery tool that will unerase files that you have mistakenly 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.

Īs with other file recovery programs Recuva works by looking for unreferenced data, but if the operating system has written new data over a deleted file then recovery will often not be possible.Piriform Recuva Professional / Business / Technician is a Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. As of version 1.5.3 it can also recover files from Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4 file systems of Linux. It is able to recover lost directory structure and automatically renames files when trying to recover two files of the same name. The program works on FAT, exFAT and NTFS file systems of Windows. Recuva was described by as an "effective tool for undeleting or salvaging files we sent for recycling and deleted, in the past". Preview thumbnails of intact photos can be displayed in grid view mode and in the side bar.

Recuva can recover files deleted from internal and external hard disk drives, USB flash drives, memory cards, portable media players or all random-access storage mediums with a supported file system.

It is able to undelete files that have been marked as deleted the operating system marks the areas of the disk in which they were stored as free space. Recuva ( / r ɪ ˈ k ʌ v ə/) is an undeletion program for Windows, developed by Piriform Software. Including both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, but not RT tablet editions.
