Recovering data from a deleted or damaged partition and even completely recovering the structure and all contents of a hard drive after formatting is now within the power of everyone. Use RS Partition Recovery and recover lost information instantly in full.
Screenshots of the program
RS Partition Recovery
Screenshots for RS Partition Recovery will help you evaluate the simplicity and convenience of working with this software. So, download and install RS Partition Recovery to get started recovering your lost data. Please note that the software cannot be installed on a disk or in a partition that contained the recoverable information.
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After installing the software, in the main program window, select the disk from which you want to recover files. If the program needs to scan large amounts of information, this may take some time.
In the window that appears, select the type of analysis you need. In most cases, a quick scan will be enough - the bulk of the lost information will be restored almost instantly. In the event of extensive damage to the file system, it is advisable to perform a complete analysis of the system.
After the scan of the specified drives is complete, all files found in them will be displayed in a window with standard interface"Explorer". By selecting the required folder, you will be able to view its contents. Deleted files and folders will be marked with a special red cross.
To set specific search parameters deleted files or find and restore only some of the lost documents, you can use the search form via the Edit-Search menu.
If you have deleted any data from a disk but are unable to recover it immediately, you can create and save a virtual image of the current disk.
This will allow you to work with the section that contained important information in normal mode, without fears that information from it cannot be recovered due to files newly saved in the section. Use the "Recover Disk" function and in the window that opens, specify the parameters for creating a disk image. Later, using the "Add Disk" button, you can open the saved disk image and add it to common list, to work with it as with the existing one.
To save the necessary data, use the "Restore" button (or the corresponding menu item). In the "Save Files" wizard window, select one of the methods for saving the recovered files. It is better if the data is not saved on the same disk from which the recovery is taking place.
“Nafanya, everything is gone! Everything is lost!" Perhaps expressed in other words, but thoughts of this kind have probably slipped through the lives of many users at least once. They were associated with data loss. Have you accidentally deleted important files or folders bypassing the Recycle Bin? Had to format partition hard disk? The flash drive, when connected, does not want to show its valuable content and urgently needs to be formatted for further work? Such situations are not uncommon, but you should not prematurely fall into despair when we have, for example, such a program in our arsenal as.
It is developed and supported by Hetman Software. She is far from new to this market. Hetman Software products are in demand in different parts of the world, so its offices are located in Ukraine, Russia, the USA and Canada, and the official website additionally has German and Spanish localizations.
Hetman Software's data recovery toolbox is diverse. So, you can purchase complex utilities (Hetman Data recovery Pack or Hetman Partition Recovery), cheaper versions for working exclusively with specific file systems (Hetman NTFS Recovery or Hetman FAT Recovery) or even more affordable versions for working with a specific file type (Hetman Photo Recovery, Hetman Office Recover, Hetman Excel Recovery and Hetman Word Recovery). All of them allow you to recover information lost when formatting or deleting a drive partition, system or hardware failure, breakdown of the device itself, viral attack, accidentally emptying the Recycle Bin, or direct deletion from media bypassing the Recycle Bin. It supports internal and external hard drives, memory cards, USB flash drives, inner memory devices (tablets, smartphones, MP3 players, etc.), SSDs, as well as NAS systems and RAID arrays. You can visually evaluate all the functionality of different versions and see their cost by following this link. Also, until March 31st, there is a 50% discount on Hetman Software products. You can read more about this in the official news at this link. In the meantime, we will move on to detailed review Hetman Partition Recovery software.
Interface and functionality
Immediately after launching, we are greeted by the File Recovery Wizard, which offers step-by-step recovery of lost files. It will be launched every time the program starts, unless you uncheck the "Show wizard at startup" checkbox at the bottom of the window. For now, let's close it and carefully go through the Hetman Partition Recovery interface.
The program has a comfortable, spacious and high-quality appearance with the possibility of partial personalization. The central place is occupied by a window with a list of all drives used in the system. It displays partitions of internal drives, and connected flash drives or memory cards, and even internal drives of connected external devices. Next to them is their full size, occupied space, and file system. If you connect a flash drive or other media with a damaged file structure, which is not displayed at all in the My Computer window, then it will be indicated here as "Unallocated area" with a full size designation, which will make it easy to identify desired device and start the data recovery process.
Below is the Disk Manager. The above information about the drive partitions is duplicated here, with the only difference that all partitions are grouped relative to their physical disk. For example, the test system used a WDC WD5000AAD HDD, divided into three disks (Unallocated area, Local disk D and Local Disk E), ADATA SP900 SSD with two partitions (System Reserved Area and System disk C) etc.
As you can see, the sizes of the areas themselves in the interface are not rigidly fixed, so they can be adjusted to the required dimensions or closed altogether for more convenient use.
On the left, there is a disk tree that allows you to quickly navigate through directories. It will be especially useful after scanning a certain partition for deleted files, when Hetman Partition Recovery finds a number of folders and files. It is with the help of the disk tree that it is easy and simple to navigate through the structure, looking at the found data.
On the right side there is a File Preview and Recovery List window. The first will be useful for visual identification of a file when its name does not tell you anything (for example, you need to find a certain photo from those saved on a flash card). At the same time, you can view not only the drawing files, but also any documents found: PDF, XLS, MP3, DOC, RTF, ZIP and others.
The second window is used if you want to restore not all files, but only some of them. Here you can sort files by name, type or size (in ascending or drop-down order), as well as change the view mode (large icons, regular icons, list, table, tile).
V right side, above the indicated windows, there are a number of icons that allow you to perform the following actions:
- change the display format of files (page thumbnail, large icons, list, table, etc.);
- filter the list of displayed files (existing, deleted, both categories);
- show or hide the Preview window;
- show or hide the Recovery List window;
- search for files;
- display HTML help file.
To the left is the address bar and navigation buttons ("Back", "Forward", " Last Pages"And" One Level Up ").
At the very top are the call buttons key functions: File Recovery Wizard and Found Files Wizard. It also contains buttons for creating and mounting a real disk image, closing the disk image and going to the community of users of Hetman Software products in various social networks(Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and VK).
At the very top is the traditional menu bar, which includes five items: File, Edit, View, Service, and Help. Many of the points duplicate the functionality discussed above, but there are also a number additional opportunities that will be useful to users. Let's take a closer look at the available functionality.
So, the main options for recovering files are concentrated in the "File" menu. The item "Wizard" ("hot keys" - + [M]) launches the File Recovery Wizard, which we will get acquainted with a little later. "Restore" (+ [R]) allows you to launch the Wizard for saving all found files, and the item "Restore from the list" (+
If you scanned desired disk to search for deleted files, but now you do not have enough time for detailed analysis and restoration of the necessary elements, then you can save the information about the analysis to a file, and later load it and restore the necessary objects.
The item "Find drives" (+ [P]) allows you to scan the selected media for the presence of deleted partitions with different file systems. If you know exactly where the deleted partition was, then you can only scan a specific area on the media. After scanning, all found partitions will be added to the disk tree on the left side of the main program window, which will make it easy to interact with their contents.
The item "Create virtual disk" (+ [N]) can be very useful. It allows you to instantly create a virtual copy of all or part of a specific media in order to continue searching and recovering data from it. This capability provides two important benefits. Firstly, you will protect yourself from accidental overwriting of deleted files, because all operations will be performed on exact copy... Secondly, you will be able to recover data to the same physical medium, which is impossible in the case of direct scanning. For example, you have only one drive in your system, which is not partitioned into disks. If you scan it for deleted files, you will need to restore it to another drive (flash drive, optical media, etc.). If you use the create function virtual disk, then it will be possible to restore to the same drive, which is very convenient and useful.
Another interesting option is the "HEX Editor" (+ [H]), which allows you to view the contents of files, partitions or physical disks. It is intended for experts and experienced users... Here they can quickly jump to the desired line or sector of the drive, view the contents in HEX- or text form using different encodings.
In the "Properties" item, you can view more detailed information about a specific physical medium. For example, find out its size, file system type, number of physical sectors, number of bytes in one sector, sectors in one cluster, etc.
In the "Edit" menu, you can select all the contents of the active section or folder, invert the selection, or activate the file search function.
The View menu will help you personalize appearance programs: configure the displayed toolbars ( Preview, Recovery list, Disk manager and others), designate the display mode of files and directories (thumbnail page, large icons, list, table and others), sort items, and change the localization language.
There are ten available languages in total, including Russian and Ukrainian. Slavic localizations are made very competently and accurately, so there are no problems with understanding the functionality of the designation.
In the "Service" menu, the main items are "Save Disk" and "Mount Disk". They do not have "hot keys", since the same buttons are additionally placed on the toolbar.
The “Save Disk” function allows you to create an exact image of a specific disk or part of it, then load it into the program using the “Mount Disk” option and analyze it to find deleted files. The differences between the "Create virtual disk" item from the "File" menu lie in the fact that the created real disk image can then be transferred, copied and transferred, and you can interact with the virtual disk only on this computer without the possibility of transportation.
The "Help" menu offers to view the help file, go to official page for feedback support, visit the Hetman Software community sites on social media, or view information about current version programs.
Main functionality
To activate the main function of Hetman Partition Recovery, search for deleted or lost files, use the File Recovery Wizard. It can be called from the "File" menu item or through the "Master" button on the toolbar.
By clicking the "Next" button, we go to the window for selecting the required disk that needs to be scanned. Here it is also possible to mount a previously saved real disk image or use the disk search function on a specific physical medium.
After selecting the required media, a window opens in front of us with the choice of the type of analysis: "Quick scan" or "Full analysis". Note that this window immediately opens if you click on any of the drive partitions in the disk tree.
The first type of scanning is carried out instantly, but not all files can be detected. The second type allows you to activate the deep analysis function for a more thorough examination of the selected section of the drive. This significantly increases the efficiency of the program, but the analysis itself will take some time (in our case, approximately 10 minutes).
Clicking on the "Next" button starts the analysis process. Note that Hetman Partition Recovery uses several different algorithms at once (analysis of the file table and its copies, signature search and file table reconstruction) to improve the efficiency of its work.
After completing the analysis procedure, you can proceed to saving the files. To do this, you just need to click on the "Restore" button on the toolbar or use the "Restore" item from the "File" menu. The wizard window that appears will immediately suggest a method for saving data: to a drive, burning to CD / DVD, create an ISO image, or transfer files via FTP. If you check the box "Remember my choice", then in the future the program will immediately use the specified method.
In case of replacement standard method, you should go to the "Service" menu and find the item "Program settings". Then, in the "Wizard" tab, uncheck the "Remember recovery method" box, which will again return the initial window of the Save Files Wizard.
If the item “Save to HDD”, Then you can specify the desired folder to save the data. Moreover, it does not have to be located on the hard drive, but can be stored, for example, on a removable USB-drive.
Selecting Burn to CD / DVD opens a dialog box for burning optical media.
The possibility of saving the found files using an ISO image or transferring them via an FTP server also left no questions. All are available required settings for the correct operation of this functionality.
Testing
To test the capabilities of Hetman Partition Recovery, a special test suite was prepared. It included three folders, each of which contained different types files: PDF (10), DOC (10), RTF (10), ZIP (4), XLS (10), JPG (10), PNG (10), MP3 (10) and MP4 (1). There are 75 files in each folder for a total of 225 files. The test system consists of the following components:
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CPU |
Intel Pentium G3220 (2 x 3.0 GHz) |
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Motherboard |
BIOSTAR Hi-FI Z87X 3D (Intel Z87, ATX) |
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RAM |
4 GB DDR3-1333 MHz |
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Storage devices |
WDC WD5000AAD (500 GB, HDD), ADATA SP900 (64 GB SSD) |
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Flash drive for testing |
GOODRAM (USB 2.0, 8 GB) |
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Operating system |
The flash drive has been pre-formatted with a full wipe of data in order to previous files could not affect the test results. The testing itself was carried out in two modes: "Recovering deleted files" (which were deleted bypassing the recycle bin) and "Recovering data after formatting a disk" (standard quick formatting of a disk using Windows OS). In both cases, we used full scan which took up to 10 minutes. The recovery process of the found files took approximately the same amount of time.
The analysis and recovery results are summarized in the following table:
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Recovering deleted files |
Recovering data after formatting a disk |
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Data recovery percentage |
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As you can see, Hetman Partition Recovery coped with the recovery of all deleted files without any problems (100% result) and almost perfectly (with 90% result) was able to recover files that were lost after disk formatting. At the same time, we note that the indicated indicators are not maximum or permanent for the indicated file types. Thus, in another test set, the recovery percentage, for example, of DOC files can be even higher.
It is nice to note that Hetman Partition Recovery was able not only to recover deleted files, but to preserve the directory structure. That is, all files were placed in their directories. If you have a deeper and larger folder tree, this will save you time to re-catalog the recovered objects.
When recovering files after formatting, most of them were sorted by the program itself by file types (JPEG, PNG, PDF and others) and were located in the "$ Deep Analysis" folder. An additional part was located in shared folder"$ Deleted and Found". It contained several folders with arbitrary names, in which the necessary files were stored.
conclusions
So the acquaintance with interesting and useful software has come to an end, which can very effectively and quickly relieve you of headaches and save your nerve cells during accidental deletion important data.
First of all, we would like to highlight a very friendly, comfortable and spacious graphical interface with high-quality Russian and Ukrainian localizations and hotkey support. It provides fast access to the pledged functionality, while allowing you to configure your view for the personal preferences of the user.
In addition to the basic functionality of searching and recovering deleted files, Hetman Partition Recovery offers a HEX editor, the function of creating a virtual disk or a real disk image, as well as the ability to search for deleted partitions on drives. You can save the found files not only to external drive or connected media, they can also be burned to CD / DVD, create an image file from them, or transfer via FTP.
The program is universal, that is, it can work with several types of file systems (FAT / NTFS) and recover Various types files (office documents, multimedia data, archives, etc.). At the same time, a variety of media are supported, including memory cards, flash drives, RAID arrays and internal drives various devices(such as an MP3 player or smartphone). And thanks to the use of various algorithms (analysis of the file table and its copy, signature search and reconstruction of the file table), high efficiency is achieved (in our case, 100% of deleted files and 90% of files lost as a result of formatting were correctly restored).
The only drawback for some users may be the paid status of Hetman Partition Recovery. But here everyone decides for himself what is more dear to him: the lost files or the required amount. Let's just note that the developers offer less functional versions of the program at a more affordable cost. A full list of them and a list of their capabilities can be found at this link. In addition, Hetman Software does not offer to buy a pig in a poke: you can download the program you like for free, in which almost all the functionality is available, with the exception of the file recovery option. That is, you can scan the desired drive to find deleted or lost files and evaluate the efficiency of your work. If the result suits you, then you can purchase a license and restore all the data found.
We express our gratitude to Hetman Software for the provided copy of the program.
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Hello Dear friends! Today I will write an article about the most holy thing that we have on our computer, of course, about information, more precisely, about how to recover lost or damaged information from a hard drive or other digital medium.
You know, I'll probably start with a small digression, a few years ago, I collected all sorts of things in a folder on my computer different programs, which I then installed to friends and acquaintances. Honestly, I don’t remember how, but I deleted them, I also have this habit, I delete everything using Shift + Del.
I was so sorry for them that you cannot imagine, at that time I did not even try to restore them. Perhaps you had similar cases, so today I will tell you about the program Starus Partition Recovery which would surely have saved me then. Hard drives, flash drives, and other digital media, the thing is certainly very cool, but if not for one thing. Like all equipment, they break down, and as a rule break down carrying a big problem, which is manifested by the loss of information.
And losing files from your computer or flash drive is a big problem, okay if there were several films, and if there are important documents or thousands of photos, like mine, for example, I really don't want to lose them.
But if this has already happened, then you can still restore them using the very powerful and at the same time simple tool Starus Partition Recovery.
2. After the program has downloaded to the computer, we begin the installation. Click the downloaded file twice with the mouse and follow the instructions.
3. That's it, Starus Partition Recovery is installed, let's start recovering files. After installation, the program will start itself, or launch it with a shortcut on the desktop. Working window programs, and as I said, the file recovery wizard looks like this (the picture is clickable):
4. Let's take a closer look at how the file recovery wizard works. It is very convenient and simple to work with him.
Here we select the disk from which we need to recover information and click "Next".
At this stage, we tell Starus Partition Recovery how to scan the selected disk. Do a quick scan, this method is most suitable if you need to recover recently deleted files. Or a complete analysis, the program will find all possible files and restore them. We continue by clicking on the "Next" button.
Well, here you need to wait while the program scans the disk and gives us the result.
The program gave me a result, in order to go to viewing the recovered files, click "Finish".
View and restore found files
5. The last step in recovering files is viewing and saving them. After completing the scan, I got the following result:
Everything is as simple here, we select the file we need and you can immediately view it in the right window, if it is a folder, then you can open it. To save the file we need, we do this:
Select one or more files and press the button at the top "Restore".
As you can see, the developers of the Starus Partition Recovery program have tried and made several ways to save the recovered information. You can save to hard drive, burn to CD / DVD, create a disk image, or even upload via FTP. You can choose any option convenient for you. I just strongly advise you not to save the recovered information to the same disk from which you recovered it. And so everything seems to be.
As you can see, everything is very simple and very functional. Starus Partition Recovery is really a very powerful tool that can save any information from any storage device and will make this process very easy for ordinary users. As always, I look forward to your comments. Good luck and take care of your information!
We used to trust the computer and related devices important information, but, at times, they can let us down, for example, as a result of a failure, losing data. Fortunately, information recovery from flash drives, disks, memory cards and other storage devices can be performed using the RS Partition Recovery utility.
RS Partition Recovery is useful software, which allows you to recover data deleted from various media (even if the media was badly damaged). The program is extremely easy to use, and this article will prove it to you.
Working with RS Partition Recovery
If the flash drive, for example, had file system NTFS, to reduce scanning time, we recommend narrowing the search range by unchecking the box "FAT"... When the settings are selected at this stage, proceed further.
In the event that files were restored from a CD or DVD, you can either immediately write the recovered information to a disc, or save the data as an ISO image.
Please note that after clicking the "Restore" button, if you are using an unregistered version of the program, the system will prompt you to enter license key, without which the restoration cannot be completed.
Advantages of RS Partition Recovery:
- Simple and intuitive clear interface with Russian language support;
- Possibility to select the analysis mode;
- Working with FAT and NTFS;
- High speed of analysis;
- High-quality search for deleted files, even if the storage medium has been damaged;
- Partition Recovery searches for all types of files, not just photos, music, videos and documents, as it is implemented in similar programs.
Disadvantages of RS Partition Recovery:
- The free version of the program is for demonstration purposes; to restore files, you need to purchase a license.
Of course, the RS Partition Recovery program is not for every day, however, it will easily and quickly help out in a situation when the information on the carrier, it would seem, was irretrievably lost. The program is recommended to absolutely all users who have ever stored important data on removable media.
