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Recuva 1.38.504

Accidentally deleted an important file? Lost something important when your computer crashed? No problem! Recuva recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. And it's free!

Undelete files on your computer

We've all deleted files by mistake, or without realizing we'd
want them at some future point. Photographs, documents, music
files, even emails - we've all had regrets. With Recuva, you can
get them back quickly, safely, and easily. This compact Windows
program does the work for you, scanning your drives for the files
you need, then recovering them in a flash.

Recuva works on any rewriteable media you have. Whether you need
to recover priceless photographs from your digital camera's memory
card, files you backed up to an external hard drive, or the
documents you carry around every day on your USB key, Recuva's got
you covered. For prosumer and pro photographers, Recuva supports
the Nikon RAW and Canon RAW (.CRW) formats.

If you listen to music on an iPod, Recuva can recover files
directly from the iPod's drive. Even though you can't access files
on your iPod directly, Recuva can. You don't have to worry about
losing music from iTunes or your iPod any more.

Recovery from damaged or formatted disks

The dreaded hard drive crash. The file you forgot to backup
before you reformatted a drive. The camera memory card with your
holiday snaps that no longer works. Recuva can handle them too.

Windows (and other operating systems) uses a hidden index on
hard drives, USB drives, and memory cards. Instead of having to
search through the entire drive for a file you request, all it has
to do is look it up in the index -- a much faster process.

Unfortunately, if the index is damaged, Windows can no longer
find your files, even if the files themselves haven't been
corrupted. That's where Recuva comes in.

Unlike Windows, Recuva scans all parts of a drive, looking for
the bits that make up your files. If a drive's index has been
damaged, chances are other parts of the drive may have been damaged
too. Recuva will show you a list of files it has found on the
drive, and give you an estimate of the likelihood of success of
recovering them.

Similarly, when you format a drive (especially if you use the
Quick Format option), Windows erases the hidden index but does not
overwrite the existing files until you start saving new data to it.
Recuva can still scan the drive's contents to find your files.

Recover deleted emails

If you're using a desktop program like Outlook Express, Windows
Live Mail, or Mozilla Thunderbird, you know that deleting emails
from within the email program sends them to the program's internal
trash or Recycle Bin. If you empty the trash or Recycle Bin, that's
it -- the email's been deleted and there's no way to get it
back.

The email program doesn't delete the email or emails to the
Windows Recycle Bin, but rather empties its own internal trash or
Recycle Bin. Fortunately, Recuva has the solution to this
problem.

Email programs like Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail, or
Mozilla Thunderbird don't store emails individually. Rather, they
store each folder as a database file. For example, there might be a
folder for the Inbox, another for Sent Mail, another for Drafts,
one for the Trash and another for emails you've saved.

When you empty the email program's Trash, the email program
empties that database file. Instead of restoring the database file,
Recuva goes one step further and recovers emails individually.

When you recover emails with Recuva, they appear in a compressed
.ZIP file (for example, Outlook Express.zip). You can use any
standard ZIP file reader (including one built in to Windows) to
open the .ZIP file up and see the emails inside.

Each email is stored in a standard .EML format, which means that
you can import it to any email program -- not just the one it was
sent or received from.

With Recuva, you never have to worry about losing that important
email, even if the email program thinks it's finished with it
forever.

Recover deleted iPod music

Deleted a track from your iPod or MP3 player? No problem, Recuva
will get this back for you along with any additional info.

Restore unsaved Word documents

Did Microsoft Word crash or did you forget to save that important
Word document. No problem with Recuva! As it can intelligently rebuild
Word documents from their temporary files.

Quick-Start Wizard

For beginning and intermediate users, Recuva has a quick-start
Wizard that guides you through the process of recovering your
files. Let Recuva know what kind of files you're looking to
recover, where they were located, and the program does the
rest.

Deep Scan

Recuva comes with many settings that you can use to tweak it to
work just the way you want. Don't get us wrong -- it works
wonderfully in its default installation. But sometimes you may want
to give it a nudge in a particular direction.

Recuva's dual scan levels is a great example of this. When
you're searching for a deleted or lost file, you may have all the
time in the world. Or, you may have your boss, teacher, or family
member breathing down your neck, asking you again and again what's
happened to that file, report, or recipe.

Recuva gives you the best of both worlds: the default quick
scan, or a Deep Scan for more results.

Recuva's default scan will run through a large
hard drive for deleted files in seconds. If you're looking for a
file you recently deleted, or a file that's not on a damaged or
corrupted drive, you should try the default scan first. It's fast
and will find your file 90% of the time. If time is critical, this
is the choice for you.

On the other hand, not every deleted or damaged file is easy to
find. Some of them take a bit more digging. Recuva's Deep Scan
option helps you find even more files buried on your hard drive or
removable drives. It takes longer but it's worth it.

How much longer? It depends on the size of your drive. You may
want to get a coffee or tea and do something else while you're
waiting. The upside is that Recuva's Deep Scan will dig through the
bits and bytes of your drive and find absolutely everything that
can be recovered.

No matter what size of hard drive or media you're using, Recuva
gets to work fast so you can find what you're looking for
sooner.

Securely delete files you want to erase forever

If you can recover your files with Recuva, then a hacker can
too. Anyone with access to your drives can run Recuva or a similar
program to retrieve old files that may contain financial records,
passwords, confidential documents, or other information you simply
want to keep private.

Although our program is called Recuva (for "recover"), we
understand the potential for abuse that recovery software has.
That's why we've built in a way to erase traces of your files. It's
an added safeguard that only Recuva has.

Here's an example of how Recuva can protect your privacy:

After completing your budget for 2009, you delete the old budget
file and start a new one for 2010. Most likely, the 2009 budget
file will remain recoverable on your Windows PC for a good while,
especially with a strong recovery program.

To make sure the 2009 budget is gone for good, run Recuva and
search for documents on that drive. When Recuva finds the
2009BUDGET.xls file, right-click it and select Secure
Overwrite.

Recuva overwrites the portion of the hard drive where the ghost
of 2009BUDGET.xls lives repeatedly until no recovery software
(Recuva included) can ever get the file back.

If you're looking for more advanced privacy and cleaning
features, you'll want to check out our acclaimed CCleaner software.
You can use CCleaner to erase cookies, passwords, browsing
histories, names of recently-used documents and more.

Portable version

Recuva works wonders whether you're on a desktop PC, a notebook, or
any computer running Windows. You can download it from any browser with
an Internet connection.

But what if you don't have an Internet connection available? Or what
if you're going over to Great-Aunt Sally to help her recover digital
photos of her dear cat? Or, what if you need to recover files from a
work PC that doesn't allow you to install software?

Recuva comes in a portable version with no installer required just
for these occasions. It's small enough to fit on a USB drive, so you can
take it (and the whole Piriform suite - CCleaner for system cleaning and Defraggler for disk defragmentation) with you wherever you go.

With the regular version of Recuva, you download a .EXE file and
double-click it to launch the program installer. For the portable
version, simply go to /recuva/download/portable and download the .ZIP file.

A .ZIP file contains one or more files compressed to save space. You
will need a utility to unzip the .ZIP file. One is built in to Windows.

Unzip the contents of the .ZIP file into a new folder on your USB
drive named "Recuva." When you need to launch the program, double-click
the Recuva.exe file. Or, if you are running 64-bit Windows, double-click
the Recuva64.exe file.

Since portable Recuva lives entirely on the USB drive, it will leave
no traces of use on your PC. With no installation required and no hard
drive space, Recuva is your ideal portable Swiss Army Knife to recover
files -- anywhere, anytime.

Full Windows OS support and many languages

Recuva runs on any modern Windows computer

Not everyone has the latest and greatest computer. These days, it
makes more sense to be cost-conscious and keep your PC as long as you
can before upgrading.

That's why we've designed all of our software, including Recuva, to work on as many versions of Windows as possible.

Simply put, if you use Windows 2000 or later, Recuva will work for you.

Changes on the new version:
- Added ability to restore images to the clipboard. - Improved Windows 7 support. - Improved stability of background checking. - Updated all internal URL references to piriform.com. - Improved support for PDFs in deep scan. - Updated setup routine to install for all users. - Updated and simplified the installer.

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Version 1.38.504 added on: 14 Dec 2010