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Recuva - File Recovery

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!


Why use Recuva? 

It happens to all of us. Maybe you deleted a file you need back, or you clicked Yes when you should've clicked No. Or maybe you had a glitch on a memory card from your digital camera or the USB drive you use with your laptop.

If you catch it right away, you can often undo the deletion in Windows or recover the file from the Recycle Bin. But what if you don't catch it right away, or a program has deleted the file? Recuva to the rescue.

Recuva is a small freeware program you can use to recover pictures, music, documents, videos, or any other types of files on your hard drive, memory cards, floppy disks, or USB sticks.

Usually, when you or Windows delete a file, a lot of the file is left behind, even if you can't see it in Windows Explorer. Recuva scours your media (except CDs, DVDs and other optical media) and puts together the pieces so you can recover the files you need.

Recuva also has the special ability to securely delete recovered files. For example, you may have deleted a sensitive document the regular way (emptying the Recycle Bin or highlighting the file and pressing the Delete key). 
This type of deletion could let others recover the file. By using Recuva's restore-and-securely-delete functionality, you can make sure it's erased once and for all.


Recuva can:
Scan through your hard drives, memory cards, and USB sticks to find files and folders you've deleted.
Tell you in advance how likely it is that your file(s) can be recovered.
Recover files that Windows can't.
Securely delete a file you may have previously deleted.
Bring your files back!

Recuva cannot:
Recover all files. Yes, as great as Recuva is it won't work all the time. Sometimes Windows has overwritten the area where the file used to be, or sometimes the file is too corrupted to recover.
Recover files you've deleted securely. For example, if you've used our CCleaner software to delete files using the Secure option, they're gone for good.
Securely delete certain very small files that are held in the Master File Table (MFT) and files of zero-byte length.


Like all other Piriform products (including CCleaner), Recuva is free for both commercial and personal use.





Changelog:


iPod track names are now restored.

Improved UI stability when working with very large files.

Improved handling of floppies on early Windows OSs.

Various tweaks to UI for non-English languages.

Scan optimizations.

Various minor tweaks.