
It can also find deleted files even if you formatted the drive.

Recuva can recover accidentally deleted files from your computer, Recycle Bin, memory cards, MP3 players, etc. “ Recuva” is a free file recovery utility developed by Piriform, the same company which develops the popular temporary file cleaning software “ CCleaner“.

Most of the data recovery software are paid software but there are a few free data recovery software also available which are worth to try. There are many data recovery tools available on Internet which can recover deleted files and restore them on your hard disk. That’s where 3rd party data recovery software come in handy. Windows doesn’t provide any built-in option to restore or recover permanently deleted files or folders. If the deleted file is still present in Recycle Bin, you can restore the file easily but if you emptied the Recycle Bin or if you deleted the file using Shift+Delete key combination (which directly deletes the file without moving it to Recycle Bin), you are out of luck. But later we realize that the deleted file was an important one and we have to recover that file anyhow. Sometimes when we don’t need a file or folder, we delete it. We regularly store data on our computer hard drive such as software setup files, songs, videos, wallpapers, important documents, etc.

UPDATE: Recuva version released to public.
