Post by moon125 on Nov 9, 2024 5:10:53 GMT
Alcor in the comments to the note about Recuva told a little about another program for recovering deleted files - Undelete Plus. Guided by the principle "the more programs, the better" I could not pass by this utility.
Undelete Plus is a small free program for recovering lost files. It can scan hard drives, find deleted files and try to recover them. Undelete Plus shopify website design recovers lost files even if they were deleted from the Recycle Bin, in DOS mode, from a network drive or Windows Explorer (with the SHIFT key pressed). Undelete Plus supports most file systems of hard and portable drives and flash drives. In addition, Undelete Plus allows you to recover data from CompactFlash , SmartMedia , MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards .
Sounds like magic? It's not. You may not know it, but every time you delete a file, you're basically telling the system something like "okay, I don't want to see this file anymore and I'm allowing it to be overwritten." In other words, no actual "erasing" of information occurs.
Undelete Plus (like other similar programs) can view free space on hard drives, find “cancelled” files and restore those that are not too damaged by overwriting.
It probably goes without saying that the faster the attempt to restore a lost file occurs, and the smaller the file size, the greater the likelihood that it will be saved. Disk defragmentation greatly reduces the likelihood of file recovery - a necessary operation, but deadly for deleted files.
The installation of the program does not differ in any special features and is quick and without any particular difficulties. After launching Undelete Plus, we get to the main menu of the program. First, it would probably be better to switch to some understandable language, fortunately, there are many of them
Now let's take a closer look at the program interface. In the left part of the window we can see the storage media (in this case, two hard drives) on which you can search for deleted files. In order to scan one of them, you need to tick the corresponding item and click the "Scan" button (at the top). If the disk is large and there are many files, scanning can take quite a long time. Its progress can be observed in the lower part of the program window - on the so-called "status line" of the program.
After the scan is complete, Undelete Plus will list all files available for recovery. Each file has information about its location, size, creation date, last modification date, and its status, indicating whether it can be
In the left part of the window, information about the file types present in the general list is displayed. In order to select files of only one type, you need to click on the corresponding item (in the picture above, only GIF files are selected).
You can also use the “Filter” function (in the top menu of Undelete Plus) to find the file you need. With its help, you can specify the file modification time, its approximate size and name (part of the name). All files that do not meet the specified criteria will be temporarily hidden.
To restore the necessary files, mark them with “check marks” and click on the “Restore” button. By default, the restored data is saved in the “My Documents” folder, but of course this can be changed.
That's basically it. My first impressions (certainly the most superficial) are that despite its slightly greater file sorting capabilities, Undelete Plus is no different from Recuva. On one of my computer's hard drives, it found a couple more files, on the other - a couple less. The number of files found on the phone and the camera was the same.
The recovery of found data is also no different from Recuva - files that were recovered by this program were also recovered using Undelete Plus, and vice versa.
The “Preview” option in Undelete Plus also turned out to be strange – I couldn’t see a single file before recovery.
The speed of Undelete Plus compared to Recuva is completely unacceptable - Undelete Plus scans ten times slower.
Although, I repeat once again - these are only superficial impressions. It is quite possible that after using both of these programs "in combat operations" my opinion may change (if this happens - I will definitely write here).
Undelete Plus is a small free program for recovering lost files. It can scan hard drives, find deleted files and try to recover them. Undelete Plus shopify website design recovers lost files even if they were deleted from the Recycle Bin, in DOS mode, from a network drive or Windows Explorer (with the SHIFT key pressed). Undelete Plus supports most file systems of hard and portable drives and flash drives. In addition, Undelete Plus allows you to recover data from CompactFlash , SmartMedia , MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards .
Sounds like magic? It's not. You may not know it, but every time you delete a file, you're basically telling the system something like "okay, I don't want to see this file anymore and I'm allowing it to be overwritten." In other words, no actual "erasing" of information occurs.
Undelete Plus (like other similar programs) can view free space on hard drives, find “cancelled” files and restore those that are not too damaged by overwriting.
It probably goes without saying that the faster the attempt to restore a lost file occurs, and the smaller the file size, the greater the likelihood that it will be saved. Disk defragmentation greatly reduces the likelihood of file recovery - a necessary operation, but deadly for deleted files.
The installation of the program does not differ in any special features and is quick and without any particular difficulties. After launching Undelete Plus, we get to the main menu of the program. First, it would probably be better to switch to some understandable language, fortunately, there are many of them
Now let's take a closer look at the program interface. In the left part of the window we can see the storage media (in this case, two hard drives) on which you can search for deleted files. In order to scan one of them, you need to tick the corresponding item and click the "Scan" button (at the top). If the disk is large and there are many files, scanning can take quite a long time. Its progress can be observed in the lower part of the program window - on the so-called "status line" of the program.
After the scan is complete, Undelete Plus will list all files available for recovery. Each file has information about its location, size, creation date, last modification date, and its status, indicating whether it can be
In the left part of the window, information about the file types present in the general list is displayed. In order to select files of only one type, you need to click on the corresponding item (in the picture above, only GIF files are selected).
You can also use the “Filter” function (in the top menu of Undelete Plus) to find the file you need. With its help, you can specify the file modification time, its approximate size and name (part of the name). All files that do not meet the specified criteria will be temporarily hidden.
To restore the necessary files, mark them with “check marks” and click on the “Restore” button. By default, the restored data is saved in the “My Documents” folder, but of course this can be changed.
That's basically it. My first impressions (certainly the most superficial) are that despite its slightly greater file sorting capabilities, Undelete Plus is no different from Recuva. On one of my computer's hard drives, it found a couple more files, on the other - a couple less. The number of files found on the phone and the camera was the same.
The recovery of found data is also no different from Recuva - files that were recovered by this program were also recovered using Undelete Plus, and vice versa.
The “Preview” option in Undelete Plus also turned out to be strange – I couldn’t see a single file before recovery.
The speed of Undelete Plus compared to Recuva is completely unacceptable - Undelete Plus scans ten times slower.
Although, I repeat once again - these are only superficial impressions. It is quite possible that after using both of these programs "in combat operations" my opinion may change (if this happens - I will definitely write here).