When you delete a file on FAT32 or NTFS file system, its content is not erased from disk. Instead, only the reference to the file's data in File Allocation Table or Master File Table is marked as deleted.
Simply put, deleted files and folders are hidden from you, but not from people with specialized tools. And while the cost of professional data recovery can run in the thousands, File R/D gives you a free analysis, inexpensive recovery and permanent deletion.
File Recovery and Delete allows you to find and recover recoverable deleted files from NTFS and FAT-formatted volumes,
regardless of their type. That means you can recover pictures, songs, movies and documents.
File R/D will scan your hard drive and build an index of existing and deleted files and directories (folders) on any logical drive of your computer with supported file formats.
Once the scanning is complete you have full control over which files to recover and what destination to recover them to.
File Recovery and Delete conveniently groups the detected items into several categories:
File Recovery and Delete also allows you to preview deleted files of certain type (images and text files) without performing recovery. This feature is very useful when you are forced to recover deleted files to the same drive. Currently you can preview files having several image file types (BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, ICO,TIF, TGA, PCX, WBMP, WMF, JP2, J2K, JBG, JPC, PGX, PNM, RAS, CUR) and several text file types (TXT, LOG, INI, BAT, RTF, XML, CSS).
Finally, File R/D gives you the ability to securely and permanently delete all the deleted files from any local drive without affecting any of the existing files.
NO HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE TOOL WILL BE ABLE TO RECOVER THE CONTENT OF THE DELETED FILES ONCE FILE R/D HAS PROCESSED YOUR DRIVE!
File Recovery and Delete can recover not only 'regular' files, but also archived, hidden, system, sparse, encrypted and compressed files.
Windows 2000 introduced Encrypting File System (EFS), which supports file encryption. EFS service runs on top of NTFS and encrypts or decrypts files or folders transparently for users and applications. File R/D does not decipher contents of encrypted files. Instead it copies the content of an encrypted file in raw mode just like data back-up applications do.
File R/D handles files regardless of their type, size or any other attribute. As long as the space on the logical drive has not been reused by the operating system File R/D can successfully recover content of any deleted file.
NTFS (New Technology File System) is the default file system in all modern operating systems from Microsoft, such as Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. NTFS 5.0 is improved version of NTFS introduced with Windows 2000.
NTFS replaced Microsoft's previous FAT file system, used in MS-DOS and early versions of Windows. NTFS has several improvements over FAT such as improved support for metadata and the use of advanced data structures to improve performance, reliability, and disk space utilization plus additional extensions like security access control lists and file system journaling. The exact specification is a trade secret, although (since NTFS v3.00) it can be licensed commercially from Microsoft through their Intellectual Property Licensing program.
NTFS5 (where 5 comes from internal enumeration of Windows 2000, the operating system which first implemented NTFS v.3.00) includes several new features over its predecessors: disk usage quotas, sparse file support, reparse points, distributed link tracking and file-level encryption, also known as the Encrypting File System (EFS).
FAT16 based on the usual 512 byte sector size and used with MS-DOS and Windows 3.xx, has a maximum partition size of 2 Gigabytes. FAT16 does not natively support alternate data streams or file permissions and it is not a journaling file system.
FAT32 was introduced with Windows 95. It is the standard file system used in Windows 95/98/Me. The theoretical Maximum partition size for the FAT32 file system is 8 Terabytes. However, in Windows 95 and 98 the size is limited to 127.53GB because to the disk 16-bit disk utilities included with the operating systems. Windows 2000 and later operating systems should be able to support the theoretical maximum size of FAT32, but Microsoft has placed an artificial limit which only allows formatting up to 32GB volumes on Windows 2000 and XP. The Maximum file size that can exist on a FAT32 formatted partition is 4GB. This has become a major factor in rendering the FAT32 file system obsolete for use on a personal computer hard drive. Media files can easily exceed this maximum size. FAT32 does not natively support alternate data streams or file permissions and it is not a journaling file system.
File Recovery and Delete can use local hard drive, remote network drive or flash drive as a recovery destination folder. File R/D even allows you to recover deleted files on the same drive that the deleted files resided on originally.
IMPORTANT! To increase the success rate of file recovery it is strongly recommended that you recover deleted files to a secondary hard drive, a network drive, USB Flash drive, or other external media. While recovery to the same drive that the deleted files reside on is physically possible, it may lead to partial or complete loss of your deleted content. Non-deleted files will never be put at risk in either circumstance.
If your lost data resides on your C: drive it is recommended you perform your file recovery by physically removing the C: drive from your computer and attaching it as a slave on another computer and then performing the file recovery using that other computer.
