Recover deleted files quickly and easily with Recuva

[petra]

Is something gone that you want to get back? Try Recuva, it's very easy to use.

https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

Not only can you Recuva your own files, you can Recuva pretty much anything as long as you act quickly before it gets overwritten by new data.

[christian]

That's really cool! Sounds like a must-have, much like the "Lazarus" browser plugin that lets you recover the content of what you typed into a form on a website (for example a forum post) in case the page crashes or you make a wrong click somewhere.

[petra]

Lazarus sounds handy for if you had a power outage, or just don't want to be saving stuff all the time.
Norton used to have a utility called "bomb shelter" which gave an option to recover a crashing application, but it got discontinued and I've never found another good crash recovery utility since

[DeDukshyn]

I've used it, but never had any success with actually recovering any of the files I wanted to recover (they couldn't have been all already overwritten). I had the shadow copy service on my PC turned off though, I chalked it up to Recuva's main place to look for deleted stuff was shadow copy data.

Piriform does make quality products though; CCleaner (previously CrapCleaner) is a wonderful tool, and the built in registry cleaners seems to work flawlessly.

[petra]

CCleaner is excellent, its registry cleaner is a necessity for me. The first time I let it declutter my registry it blew my mind 😀

With Recuva, if you look closely in the scan results you can often see exactly which new file overwrote it. There's also a deep scan option if you can't find the file name using a quick scan.

I've used this recently as well, and I noticed something was overwritten by pagefile.sys which is a part of windows, so yeah, there's a bit of luck involved too 😀