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Recuva () is an undeletion program for Windows, developed by Piriform Software.

Key facts

Software.logo
Recuva icon.png
Software.screenshot
Piriform Recuva Screen.png
Software.caption
Recuva 1.28 on Windows Vista
Software.developer
Piriform Software
Software.latest release version
1.54.120 (May 22, 2024)
Software.operating system
Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista and XP. Including both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, but not RT tablet editions.
Software.size
4.2 MB
Software.language count
30+
Software.genre
Undeletion
Software.license
Freemium

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Recuva () is an undeletion program for Windows, developed by Piriform Software.

It is able to undelete files that have been marked as deleted; the operating system marks the areas of the disk in which they were stored as free space. Recuva can recover files deleted from internal and external hard disk drives, USB flash drives, memory cards, portable media players or all random-access storage mediums with a supported file system. The program works on FAT, exFAT and NTFS file systems of Windows, and as of version 1.5.3 it can also recover files from Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4 file systems of Linux. It is able to recover lost directory structure and automatically renames files when trying to recover two files of the same name. As with other file recovery programs Recuva works by looking for unreferenced data, but if the operating system has written new data over a deleted file then recovery will often not be possible.

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