Recover My Files for Windows

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Developer’s Description

By GetData Software

Recover deleted files, perform unformatted recovery, and corrupt drive recovery.

Recover My Files can recover lost files from formatted, corrupt, unallocated, missing, and raw drives, or files that have been deleted and bypassed the Windows recycle bin. Click on the files found to preview them in the display window or use the Text and Hex tabs to see the raw data. When you try Recover My Files, remember that you can browse results whilst the search is in progress. It is usually NOT necessary to let the search scan an entire drive. Once "Files and Folders" are found, SKIP the remainder of the search phase to rebuild recovered partitions and view your files. There are plenty of tips to running file and drive recoveries at the developer site.

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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: December 11, 2012

Latest update: September 20, 2025

Version: 6.4.2.2597

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows XP
Windows 98 SE
Windows 8
Windows 7
Windows ME
Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows NT

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 2,041,836

Downloads Last Week: 11

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User Reviews

3.6/5

188 User Votes

Good product - worth the cost!
stephaniefoster1970March 22, 2016
Pros
Gets your files back, easy to use, very thorough in looking for deleted files. Worked to find files even after I paid a computer shop to find lost files. Wish I wouldn't have taken it to the shop as this was alot cheaper.
Cons
using on my old xp machine - sometimes it "forgets" that I actually purchased it, but easy enough to fix.
Summary
Highly recommend this if you need data recovery.
It didnt work
BretLeducNovember 5, 2012
Pros
It recovered some files (poorly).
Cons
Crashed on one drive and froze on the other. Will let you WASTE your time running in trial on virtual machine, but will not save the files because you cant register on virtual machine.
Summary
I needed to recover two of my friend's SATA drives that were 250 and 300 GB. So first I installed this and ran it on my VMWware (Windows 7 - 64) on my MacBook Pro. The program allowed me to start the process, but I cancelled it after a couple of hours because I wanted to try a different method (ERD Commander). ERD Commander didn't recover the files either tho :( So then I tried running this on my friend's Windows 7 laptop. On the 250 drive, it got 3/4 of the way through the 14 hour read and Recover My Files crashed with an error message. I tried it again and got the same error at the same point. So then I tried the 300GB drive on the Windows box. It got literally to about 1% and the program locked up. I tried a test run and cancelled out before the problems happened, so the program could then go ahead and recover some of the files, but because the run wasn't complete, the pictures were very incomplete. BUT check this out... I registered the program on the Windows box and then tried to register it on my Mac running VMWare (The company allows you to install on two seats). It errored out saying I couldn't install this on a virtual machine! BUT it was already running in trial mode! That means this program will let you WASTE 14 hours to find files and presumably another 14 hours to analyze the files, then it will tell you you can't use this program to save the files! BEWARE! I gave this 1.5 stars because at least it found and recovered a few files, however poorly.
Worked when 2 other data recovery programs didn't.
uberrificNovember 3, 2012
Pros
Finds your files in as close to original condition as possible.
Cons
None 10char
Summary
I accidentally formatted my drive and needed to get my files back. I used 2 other programs (Phoenix, Data Rescue) and they could not recover the file structure, only the loose files, which is basically pointless. About to lose hope, I ran Recover My Files and it found the lost file structure! It's a life saver.
Best of them all
spacegoat_100November 2, 2012
Pros
Fast, covers a lot of files, search filter.
Cons
nothing, did the job
Summary
I tried 5 different recovery software and only this one found what others did not. Save my 4 months of work. Cheers
Good product
bobslater05September 16, 2012
Pros
Has the best interface of the ones I tried. Easy to use, a few clicks and its underway. Will take a long time if you scan an entire disk but support was helpful and when i used the skip button files came back of a dud usb drive in less than 30 min.
Cons
didnt have any problems with this software
Summary
Best data recovery program I tried. Purchased a key and saved files. All good.
I don't understand...
PastorTimSeptember 12, 2012
Pros
GUI is very good.
Cons
Identified bad files as good... wasted my money.
Summary
It identified files that could be saved, I bought it and pulled the files off of the drive, but they were no good. The first tech support agent that I chatted with asked me to download files and I did. She realized her shift was over, so she just disconnected me with no explanation. Second agent tried something else but could not connect with the problem....
Like the new features
ReggyAugust 29, 2012
Pros
As a long time and frequent user of this tool I like the fact that they actually listen to users and put some of the feature requests in. Good job on the gallery view for graphics, makes trawling through pics so much easier. I like the new interface. The validate option looks good and seem to weed out any corrupt files pretty well.
Cons
None so far. Keep it up.
Summary
I've tried all the others but keep coming back to this one.
It saved me again...
amandapatterson71March 5, 2012
Pros
I have used several versions of this software in the past.Gives me confidence that they update their product and it actually gets better and better without including useless 'features' that you don't need. Recovered my formatted external drive easily.
Cons
None cons. yet.
Summary
PRODUCT WOKS AS ADVERTISED
tylerbenilMarch 5, 2012
Pros
Software did exactly what I needed it to do, recovered files,JPEG, my computer crashed and lost all files. OS is Vista, so I ran a Recovery Manager to get computer to operate. Recover My Files is an easy to use software, downloaded from the internet without one problem.
Cons
NONE- this program just saved me a ton of money and apologies that I would have had to give!
Summary
Scanned Resultat Almost Equivalent to Virtual Labs
alamdamai2February 17, 2012
Pros
Filer Result List is slightly better than Virutal Lab
Cons
None that i'm aware of
Summary
Beware! Bought this software at an on-line dealer as recommended by an earlier reviewer, ie.at RegNow, but the licensed key given couldn't activate the programme. Now regretted buying from them and has open a Paypal trade dispute with the said dealer.