Undelete data with data recovery freeware

Computer users wouldn't like to delete personal files. But they would be likely to delete entire partition when virus attacks the computer or disk is unreadable. Afterwards, they might come to realize that they have just deleted their precious data contained on the partition simultaneously. Good news is all those deleted data can be undeleted by using free data recovery software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition which has powerful and user-friendly functions to retrieve lost data.

Data recovery

Computer experts through special ways may read this invisible, unreadable data which lost due to storage media damage, improper operation and other problems. However, common users could not recover data as computer engineers and most of us are the formers. Actually, lost data are still stored on hard disk, anyone who knows data recovery knowledge could recover those data easily.

Storing, formatting and deletion

When storing files into hard disk, system will firstly write file names and size in FAT then write file content on FAT at the data field starting location in accordance with free space, and successively it begins to write real content in data field. After these steps, the file storage is completed.

Compared with storing, deletion is quite simple. When deleting a file, system will only make a mark in the front of this file within FAT to mean this file is deleted and space can be used for other files. Therefore, users are just need to use a free data recovery tool to remove the deletion mark when they want to recover deleted data. But users should pay attention to that no new files are written to occupy previous space of lost file or the data really lose permanently. In case of 100% security of your data you can use free backup software to backup your disk which you will operate upon.

Formatting is synonymous with deletion which merely marks on FAT and does not perform any operation upon data filed. But formatting can add deletion mark on all files or even empty FAT. Fortunately, though directory is vacant, data still exists. Users also can retrieve all those data by using data recovery software.

How to use freeware for data recovery?

This data recovery freeware is very easy to use. A wizard interface will guide you through the whole process of data recovery. There are three recovery modules on the main window of the data recovery freeware.

Deleted File Recovery: aims to recover deleted files even if emptied from Recycle Bin.

Complete Recovery: aims to recover data after format, or from RAW partition.

Partition Recovery: aims to recover lost file from deleting partitions or system crashes.

Here we use "Partition Recovery" for example.

1. Click the "Partition Recovery" button on the main window of the data recovery freeware.

2. Select the file types you want to recover and then choose the disk where the partition had been deleted and click "NEXT" to start searching on this disk.

3. Then you will see a list of partitions where data lost possibly happens and choose the volume at best to recover and then press "NEXT" button.

4. After the deleted files are found, you can preview it to check the file quality. Select the files you want recover to save them to a safe place.

Tips: If your files are over 1GB, you should use the full version. You can use "Export" function to save the results for the continuous recovery using the full version.

If you are seeking for Mac data recovery software, please go to see EaseUS Mac Data Recovery Wizard.

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