What Is The Easiest Way To Recover Deleted Files?

By Author: Nick Clarke
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Data deletion is perhaps one of the most widely misunderstood things about computers. Most people assume that files are gone for good the moment they empty the recycle bin or format a drive or partition. After all, operating systems like Windows typically warn you before you go ahead. But despite this, most of us have accidentally deleted or otherwise lost valuable files due to not paying attention. In other cases, it can be easy to accidentally wipe the wrong drive or partition. For example, if you are installing or reinstalling an operating system, you might accidentally delete or format the wrong partition. Then, you only realize when it is already too late it was the wrong one! Fortunately, and contrary to popular belief, there is still hope.

The thing about deleting files and formatting drives is these operations do not actually make any changes to the original data. All that changes is the master file table on the drive. The MFT is a huge database which tells the file system where to find particular files. Without the MFT, the drive will be unreadable through conventional means. Moreover, if the drive has been formatted, ...
... it will appear to be empty. What most people do not realize though, is that the original data remains on the drive until something else overwrites it. This can happen at any time, such as when you create or save a new file or install a new application. This is why it is important that you act quickly to recover your files - ideally as soon as you realize they are gone.

Active@ UNERASER is a powerful tool for exploiting that opportunity. In a few cases, it is even possible to recover files months or years after they were deleted. The less the contents of the drive have been modified since you lost the files, the higher the chances are of getting them back in one piece. Active@ UNERASER lets you perform a low-level search of the affected storage device to locate files of hundreds of different types. It recognizes certain file formats, which is important since the original filenames may be truncated or missing entirely. The latest version, launched on June 3, 2020, adds support for more filetypes, including LibreOffice and WPS Office documents and Ancestral Quest files. It now also lets you recover files or partitions from the Apple ApFS filesystem. Support for Microsoft ReFS has also been improved with more stable and reliable code.

Active@ UNERASER is available as a freeware utility for letting you search for recoverable files and recover those up to a certain file size. However, the Professional package now ships with the latest version of Active@ Boot Disk and a new and improved Boot Disk Creator for recovering files from you system hard drive partition. This is important since it works in its own environment to avoid making any further changes to the drive. Ultimate package users can now use the latest version of Active@ LiveCD, offering full support for PCI-E NVMe M.2 solid state drives. Moreover, the recovery kernel has been improved with many bug fixes and improvements to improve your changes of a successful operation even further. Try it out today by visiting https://www.uneraser.com/undelete.html.