Microsoft's new windows file recovery let's you retrieve deleted files.
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Microsoft's window file recovery app |
Microsoft is releasing its own Windows File Recovery tool,
designed to retrieve files you’ve mistakenly deleted. Windows
File Recovery is a command line app that will recover a variety of files
and documents from local hard drives, USB drives, and even SD cards from
cameras. Recovery of files on cloud storage or network file shares is not
supported, though.
Windows File Recovery will be a useful tool for anyone who
has accidentally deleted an important document, or wiped a drive clean by
mistake. Microsoft already provides a Previous Versions feature in Windows 10
that lets you recovery documents you may have deleted, but you have to
specifically enable this using a File
History feature that’s disabled by default.
Like any file recovery tool, you’ll need to use it as soon
as possible on deleted files to ensure they haven’t been overwritten. You’ll be
able to use Microsoft’s new tool to recover MP3 files, MP4 videos, PDF
documents, JPEG images, and typical Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents.
Microsoft’s file recovery tool has a default mode that’s
designed primarily for NTFS file systems. It will recover files from a
corrupted disk or after you’ve formatted a disk. A second signature mode will
likely be the more popular option, allowing users to recover
specific file types across FAT, exFAT, and ReFS file systems. This
signature mode may also take longer to retrieve files.
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