Recuva

Recuva

Recuva

Key Details of Recuva

  • Recover files deleted from your Windows computer
  • Last updated on 08/17/20
  • There have been 1 update within the past 6 months
  • The current version has 0 flags on VirusTotal

Editors’ Review

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. 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.

PROS

Wizard: The Recuva Wizard dialog let us scan All Files or just Pictures, Music, Documents, Video, Compressed, or Emails. We could also scan by File Location ranging from “I’m not sure” to CD/DVD and enable the Deep Scan option.

Context menu integration: The Advanced Options include adding “Scan for deleted files” to Explorer and Recycle Bin context menus.

Portable version: Recuva includes a fully portable version that fits on a USB drive. It runs without an installer, so it can find and recover files in damaged systems.

CONS

Advanced 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.

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. To us, that seems like a good time to have a local copy of the Help file.

BOTTOM LINE

Like CCleaner, Recuva is fast, reliable, and delivers a lot for freeware. Try it before buying a recovery tool.

WHAT’S NEW IN VERSION 1.53.1087

  • Improved Ext4 and Ext3 file system support.
  • Improved Fat32 partition file scanning.
  • Optimized Secure Overwrite on Windows 10.
  • Enhanced drive and partition detection.
  • Improved keyboard navigation.
  • Minor GUI improvements.
  • Minor bug fixes.

Developer’s Description

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.

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