Note the “Secure Delete Highlighted” tab – this is the way to PERMANENTLY delete any file you find. Right clicking on a file brings up this menu: Switching to Advanced Mode shows more detailed information on each file – a red button means it’s toast. If you overwrite the space, the file is really lost because there is now new data in that space. When you delete a file, you basically change the file name only so that Windows does not reference it if the space where the files resided on the disk was not overwritten – the file is still there intact. Deep Scan is an option if a quick scan does not yield results.Īnd results – for images, if no preview is available, the file is toast. That’s it! Note on this screen there is a option to “Enable Deep Scan” – don’t do this the first time! I have read some posts where users have waited over 24 hours for results. It takes you by the hand and the next screen identifies which files you want to find… Recuva is very simple to use – the opening screen: This is from the same folks at Piriform that wrote CC Cleaner, a very popular utility for cleaning up those messy registry and temp files that clutter up hard drives. One that I have used which fills the bill and at the right price – FREE – is Recuva. If you’re lucky, it might still be in your Recycle Bin – if not, you need a file recovery program. Did you ever have the “Oh no!” moment – “I deleted a file some time ago and now I need it!”
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