Recover Your Permanently Deleted Data Using RECUVA, The Recovery Software.

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Data loss can take many forms — accidental deletion, hard drive failure, software bugs, data corruption. Windows uses the Master File Table (MFT) as an index to the files it stores on your hard drives. When you delete a file, it's faster for Windows to mark its MFT entry as 'deleted' than for Windows to overwrite the file itself, so the file is left on the hard drive. So any deleted file that you want to bring back, the older it is, the harder it will be to bring back. Plus if you are able to bring it back, the older it is, the more corrupted the file will be. So if you want to bring a deleted file back, you need to do it as fast as possible. The more you delay, the less chance there is of recovering it.

Recuva  is a data recovery program for windows, developed by piriform.  It is able to recover files that have been "permanently" deleted and marked by the operating system as free space.The program can also be used to recover files deleted from USB flash drives, memory card, or MP3 player.

Regular recovery process

When you first delete a file, Windows does not overwrite the MFT entry until it needs to reuse it.Recuva scans the MFT for files marked as deleted. Since MFT entries for deleted files are still complete (including when the file was deleted, how big it is, and where it lives on the hard drive), Recuva can give you a comprehensive list of many files and help you to recover them.

As Windows finds the need to create new files, however, it will eventually reuse and overwrite these MFT entries as well as the spaces on the hard drive where the new files actually live. That's why Recuva can't recover every file - and that's why your best bet is to run Recuva as soon as you realize the file's been deleted.

STEPS FOR RECOVERING DATA

1. After opening the program, select the drive where the file was deleted then click the “scan” button. the file was deleted then click the “scan” button.

2. Recuva then starts sweeping the specified hard drive looking for files that are able to be restored. 

3. You then get a list of all the files that Recuva was able to find.  As you can see, some of the files are unidentifiable with just scrambled file names but a lot of other files have their original names intact (more on that later). What I really liked about Recuva is that it has a colour-coded system where you can see right away the status of each file and whether or not it is in any condition to be downloaded successfully or not.

Red means the file is basically screwed and you can forget it. Yellow means the file is in very bad condition but you can still download it and take your chances with it – some of it might be salvageable. Green means that the file is in excellent condition and you can get it back no problem.  

4. If there are too many files returned to manage or you are looking for a particular file, you can filter the files. Just specify a file type or a filename in the “filename or path” field or drop down the menu to specify a file type.   So for example, by typing in “google update”, I was able to find three particular files.  

5. Now say I want to want to recover those 3 files? I just need to tick them and click the “recover” button. Recuva will ask me to specify where on the computer they should go and when I have told it, the files will start downloading. In fact, they are put back on the computer so fast that I didn’t even have time to make a screenshot!

That’s basically all there is to it. Just remember to untick those files in Recuva before you close the program because Recuva remembers those files next time and will keep on downloading them over and over again! So untick them once you have recovered them and you’ll be fine.

You can download RECUVA from the link below :