Recover lost files and folders on NTFS and FAT volumes.
WinUtilities Free Undelete is a powerful and easy-to-use data-recovery and undelete solution for Windows. It can recover lost files and folders on NTFS and FAT volumes or on any physical storage device, and it can preview images and binary files before recovery. WinUtilities Undelete supports to recover documents you accidentally deleted or pictures from a formatted digital-camera memory card. It also supports to recover MP3 music and AVI video files in Advanced scan mode, the ability to restore directory tree even for non-deleted folders.
For me, it was quite intuitive to use compared to some others I have tried and does a fair to middling job of recovery from the Waste Basket, IF YOU SIMPLY DELETED what you are after. If you used a multi-pass tool, few can help you.
Cons
Not as good as the ones I mentioned.
Summary
Easy to use interface - mapped thumb drive
cwywes
Pros
The program works quick and gives you a map of the drive your are interested in.
Cons
The program didn't locate any specific files, only found lost folders. I could see any specific files to have it rebuild or restore to useful condition.
Summary
For proper functioning of this program it seems to matter how the files were lost. I didn't delete any files, they were just gone. I was testing an external USB flash drive and had asked a third party program to see if the drive was functional. Next time the drive was used, it appeared empty.
easy ,efficient,speedy and free
kabhatt19
Pros
free,simple
Cons
recover more thna 80% data
Summary
very good for home user and amature users. i recommand it.
Didn't find anything on my card.
iggyfraggle
Pros
None that I could tell.
Cons
Wish I knew if this program would have worked if I hadn't previously tryed Stellar. Guess I'll never know. Stellar wasn't awesome - and wish I had another to try for better results.
Summary
Great FREEware
frohgg
Pros
It did exactly what I wanted...recovered deleted pics on my SD card. A couple of clicks and I had them back! And it was free! Thanks CNET!
Cons
None yet...
Summary
It's not a wizard software, but I guess that's why it was free. But it worked fine. When I highlighted the drive I wanted it to look at, it brought the photos into a list, but offered no options from there. So if someone doesn't know to right click for options they might be lost at that point.
Freakin Awesome
luminous_lela
Pros
First off it is free so that's GREAT!!! Easy to install. Easy to use. Then it did exactly what I needed it to do.
Cons
NONE that I'm aware of
Summary
I absolutely love this program. My freeagent go recently became corrupt. I had two partitions and one would not read, thus the corrupt message. I tried all sorts of programs and nothing worked until this wonderful little program. Easy to install and even easier file retrieval. All I had to do was copy files to my computers hard drive, it was that easy. I definitely suggest this program if you are having issues with data recovery.
Can't find 1 file to restore
18cdbob18
Pros
Easy to install
Cons
Don't know why it didn't ID any file as recoverable. Could it be that after using defrag, or CCleaner it can't detect them?
Summary
Puzzled by the raves. Doesn't do anything except list files it can't recover.