The program came into my hands Handy Recovery- the development of SoftLogica, which many experts use to recover data on a computer running Windows. This desktop program has proven itself for a long time, because it easily recognizes and analyzes files deleted within the NTFS, FAT (12/16/32), HFS/HFS + and other file systems - that is, on most computers.

Main functions of Handy Recovery 5.5

So, if you have already downloaded Handy Recovery, I suggest that you familiarize yourself, if not with the main features of the application - with some distinctive "chips" that somewhat distinguish this program from similar ones: for example, or.

Data recovery from destroyed, deleted or reformatted system partitions

Handy Recovery 5.5 works with all sorts of devices and storage media: hard disk drives (HDD), flash drives and even floppy drives. It can easily recover data from a flash drive, compressed and encrypted files on the NTFS file system. In addition to this, Handy Recovery supports quite rare HFS and HFS+ file systems - on which Mac OS X is based.

It should also be noted that Handy Recovery 5, like any recovery application, is able to detect all deleted partitions on the HDD, accidentally damaged or deleted by the user as a result of an error or intentionally. These files, as a rule, are not displayed in standard ways (in Explorer or other programs), while Handy Recovery is able to detect and restore them. Accordingly, it can be used to return data, directories from these partitions on a disk, flash drive or other removable device.

Handy Recovery Interface: Disk Scan Results

Even if you quickly formatted the partition, the Handy Recovery window will display the files that were available just before the hard drive was formatted. By reviewing them, you can quickly decide what you need to return from the found. After that, Handy Recovery 5 recovers information from the hard drive on the computer.

Advanced disk analysis during recovery in Handy Recovery 5.0 for Windows

Searching Handy Recovery for items deleted after emptying the Recycle Bin

If you deleted a file to the Recycle Bin and then emptied it, you still have the option to get the information back: for the data recovery procedure, there is a corresponding option to restore from the Recycle Bin, provided in the Handy Recovery program.

Search for deleted files by specified file type

The fact is that information about each file on the disk is contained in a special file table. Therefore, when you delete a certain element, you do not get rid of it completely - only the record about it, the service information, is lost. The file itself remains untouched until it is overwritten. In other words, even a deleted and not overwritten file is sometimes difficult to find.

Handy Recovery 5.5 not only searches for files, but also for deleted partitions

Also, deleted data can only be partially overwritten, which is critical for images, video files, while partially restored archives may contain files that will be completely restored. One way or another, the Handy Recovery tool will cope with such recovery tasks without any problems.

Convenient viewing of deleted files in Handy Recovery and navigation

Navigation through Handy Recovery is available through the file structure with the ability to fully preview deleted data. You can easily work with the remote contents of the hard drive through the explorer. The list of available file operations looks like this:

• search by file mask
• filtration
• sorting by type, size, date, etc.

Handy Recovery has a preview that allows you to preview the contents of an item before restoring it to disk.

Quick recovery feature in Handy Recovery

Writing a disk image in Handy Recovery

Handy Recovery creates an image of a disk or partition without any problems. This feature is necessary to save a backup and then restore it. Typically, the image is written to another hard drive or removable media - if its capacity allows.

Summary. If you have deleted or lost important files, we advise you to download Handy Recovery trial version in Russian - in order to understand if there is at least a minimal chance of recovering information. Well, then follow the situation - for example, you can buy the full version of Handy Recovery, especially since the price for it is quite symbolic.

Data recovery programs belong to the category of programs that are used most often, because with the development of digital technologies and the rapid spread of various storage media, it happens that data disappears by mistake of an inexperienced user, due to system failures, with various damage to disks and other media.

And very often it happens that it is this lost information that is the most important. Let's look at a few and evaluate their work in practice. For comparison, two different utilities were selected: Hetman Partition Recovery, Handy Recovery, which are distinguished by positive feedback from many users.

Handy Recovery:

The software carries out, accidentally deleted from a flash device,. In addition, it recovers files damaged by virus attacks, due to software or power failures, as well as formatted or damaged during an interrupted format.

The description of the program states that it supports all the most common file systems and scans the contents of the disk to be recovered sector by sector, thereby achieving maximum search efficiency.

Choosing this utility, we focused on user reviews, but let's independently produce and check the effectiveness of its work. On the developer site the software is listed as shareware, so after installation, the utility warns the user about the trial period.

However, let's try to recover data from a flash drive on which the formatting process was not completed. When you start the program, in addition to the main window, tips are displayed intended for inexperienced users, which, however, are more than 20, so we will not read all of them, but simply close this dialog box and proceed directly to the recovery process.

The next dialog box prompts you to select the drive from which you want to recover information. We, of course, select our flash drive and click the "Analysis" button.

It should be noted that the process takes quite a lot of time, so this utility is not suitable for urgent data recovery in any case. As a result, the list of found files looks like this.

Little is clear here, but a significant advantage, as it turned out, is the ability to preview photos in order to weed out unnecessary ones.

And at this stage, as you might guess, you need to select all the files to be restored and click on "Restore", after which the program will prompt you to choose a location to save the data. We have a pre-created folder on the D drive, so we specify this path.

The utility restored the specified files in the corresponding folder. It should be noted that the work was done quite well and the data is saved in full, so the program can be considered quite good, so let's go ahead and analyze the functionality of another program that has a number of positive user reviews.

Hetman Partition Recovery:

Hetman Partition Recovery It is also represented by a shareware version, which has its own functional features. The description states its compatibility with the most popular versions of Windows, as well as the ability to work with various types of file systems.

This software works with portable media and , recovering data damaged by virus attacks, program failures, and due to incorrect or complete formatting. In addition, it can solve such a problem, how to recover deleted partitions on hard drive, which is also necessary.

The program has the declared minimum characteristics, so it can work on ordinary home computers. However, the description on the developer's website is one thing, but understanding the operation of the program and evaluating the quality of its functionality is completely different. Therefore, let's take a closer look at the stages of data recovery from and evaluate the quality and speed of the utility.

We installed it on the computer without much effort, since the program has a simple and understandable installer and "weighs" quite a bit. When starting the program, the user is “greeted” by the “File Recovery Wizard” dialog box, which can greatly simplify the process of recovering information for an inexperienced user.

In addition, here you can also call the "Help" menu for a more detailed acquaintance with the instructions for using the program, which is also important for those who are familiar with computer programs at the most unsatisfactory level. However, we will follow the advice of the "Wizard" and try to recover the data.

So, a flash drive was selected to be restored and the type of scan that the file search program can apply and the final result looks like this:

This shows the progress of the search and provides an estimate of the time it will take.

The analysis is completed and the dialog box indicates that the program has found a certain number of files, which we will have to look at later.

Click "Finish" and we see two folders in the working field of the utility.

If you "go" to "Deep Analysis", you can find there files grouped into folders according to their type.

In order to restore them all or selectively, you should select the necessary one and “drag” it to the appropriate field by clicking the “Restore” button.

The next action that the program suggests us to take will be the choice of the method for saving files, which must be selected from the list of suggested ones. “Saving to a hard disk” in a pre-prepared folder is quite suitable for us. Therefore, just press the appropriate buttons and observe the process of saving files to the specified location on drive D.

The result of the utility's work can be considered more than satisfactory, because in the process of working with it, all the required files were identified and restored, which differ only in names. Thus, at this stage of our comparison, Hetman Partition Recovery is definitely the leader in all positions.

As a result of our comparison of the two utilities, we can conclude that Hetman Partition Recovery is optimal for work, which of all has the most efficient performance and user-friendly interface.

Sincerely,

Note! This material is in the archive section. The relevance of the text is not guaranteed.

Handy Recovery - recover deleted files

Anton Maksimov , 07/17/2008 (08/30/2018)

Restoring deleted files is an interesting question, so first I will talk about how data is deleted and how it is restored. After that, I will already describe a very interesting utility that will help you easily recover accidentally deleted files and folders.

In itself, deleting a file from disk, in simple terms, is the removal of a file record from the file system (a table that indicates the location of the file and its characteristics). At the same time, the file itself still remains on the disk and can be restored. Over time, as you work on your computer, deleted files are overwritten with new data and lost forever.

File system (English file system) - a regulation that determines the method of organizing, storing and naming data on storage media. It defines the format for the physical storage of information that is usually grouped in the form of files. A particular file system determines the size of a file name, the maximum possible file size, a set of file attributes. Some file systems provide services, such as access control or file encryption.

After an accidental deletion (it can be caused not only by an accidental click on "Delete", but also by many other reasons that may not depend on you), data can be recovered by restoring a record about it in the file system table.

The sooner the recovery process is performed, the higher the probability of obtaining the entire file. This is due to the fact that parts of the data of the recovered file will not be overwritten during the operation of the operating system.

To recover deleted files, special programs are used that analyze the disk, find deleted files and restore them. Among such programs, you should especially pay attention to the Handy Recovery utility.

The main advantages of Handy Recovery are ease of use and amazingly high speed. Once I tried several data recovery utilities that analyzed the disk for a very long time in search of deleted data, then performed some manipulations that were incomprehensible to me, reanalyzed something, and only then displayed the result in a form completely incomprehensible to a simple user. The whole process of analysis alone took a rather long period of time and was rather annoying. It was especially disappointing when, after this long wait, I could not recover the data for some reason that was understandable only to the developers of those programs.

But with Handy Recovery, everything turned out to be completely different. Firstly, the program scanned my disk very quickly. Secondly, it was not difficult to read the result obtained - it is displayed in a window that very much resembles Windows Explorer (there is a folder tree on the left, and a list of files that are in the selected folder on the right).

Tree folders that contain deleted data are marked with a special symbol (a plus icon). This allows you to very quickly find deleted data on a disk among ordinary folders. The deleted files and folders themselves are marked with red crosses (meaning that they have been deleted). Everything is extremely simple and clear at a glance at the program.

The process of recovering deleted files is trivially simple for the user. We select the files and folders that need to be restored, click the "Restore" button, confirm the restoration of files after deletion and the job is done! All recovered files are stored in a special folder (it is set by the user). Recovery speed is impressive! I managed to restore several dozen files in about a minute. During this time, I launched the program, selected the desired folder in the tree, went into it, selected files and folders for recovery and clicked "Restore". All!

Such a program is simply necessary on every computer, both in the office and at home. You may need to restore files or folders after deletion at any time. When this happens, minutes count. If Handy Recovery is already installed on the computer, then all that remains is to run it and restore all the data.

The information boom is forcing people to work more and more often at the computer. Searching the Internet, typing, creating a media library - this is only a small part of what an ordinary user has to do on a daily basis. Every day there are more and more files. Over time, the accumulated file archive acquires the status of a priceless treasury. Unfortunately, the information in the "figure" is easily damaged, since there is no physical ability to resist external influences. It is not difficult to imagine that the loss of valuable data is akin to a disaster.

There can be a great variety of reasons for loss, from accidental deletion of files to hardware failures in digital storage media. But if one day you do not find any documents on your computer, then you should not despair. Remember the saying: "Saving the drowning is the work of the drowning themselves." So in our case, data recovery is possible, but for this you need to make your own efforts and the "clever mind" of a reliable assistant. We will assign the Handy Recovery software product, created by Softlogica specialists, to play the role of a "faithful comrade".

Let's make a small digression and explain why the disappeared files have a chance for a "second wind". The point is the following. When a file is deleted, no matter for what reasons, whether it be due to the malicious actions of a virus or the rash and hasty decisions of the user, it becomes invisible. Despite this, the file data is still in the same place for some time. But at the same time, the space that was allocated for the file turns out to be free. And other "lucky ones" can apply for this place. Therefore, as soon as you have the first suspicions about the disappearance of data, in no case do not write to the storage medium.

However, we will not focus on this topic and return to the review of the Handy Recovery utility, which allows not only to find lost data, but also to restore them. As already mentioned, the success of "resuscitation" primarily depends on whether the clusters released after the deleted file are overwritten or not. Let's hope that in our example it will be possible to bring all the lost files back to life. So, let's begin.

At the first start, the "Helpful Tips" window appears. After reviewing the suggested recommendations, you will be more confident in using the recovery tools. Having remembered the advice of the developers, you can immediately begin the procedure for bringing precious files back to life. The recovery process includes several steps.

The first step is to choose a storage medium. The program can work both with local hard drives and with external reading and writing devices - "flash drives", memory cards, etc. The program provides the ability to scan each partition separately. This simplifies the process of finding lost files, as there is no need to run a full hard disk scan. As a result, the time to "revive" the files is significantly reduced. However, the list may not include the section you need. In this case, you need to open the "Find more partitions (partitions)" item, in which the user has the opportunity to specify the start and end points of the search. After that, you can start the scanning procedure. The duration of the analysis depends on many factors - the speed of the PC, the capacity of the hard disk or partition, the read speed of the media, etc.

Upon completion of the scan, the main window of the program will be displayed, consisting of several areas that resemble the windows of the Windows Explorer familiar to the user. Nevertheless, there is a difference between them. In the Handy Recovery Explorer, in addition to "live" information, files that are on the verge of final disappearance are displayed. They are easy to find, as they stand out from the general list thanks to a distinctive sign - a red cross on the folder icon. In addition, there is a file preview window. This feature is disabled by default. You can view the desired file by clicking on the "Activate View" button. However, the developers warn the user, informing them that after enabling this function, temporary files of opened documents will be created on the system disk, and this may affect the result. To a greater extent, this recommendation applies to those situations where the desired file was located in the system partition, in which case any write cycles will lead to a decrease in the chances of successful recovery.

Pay attention to the "Advanced Analysis" item, which is located in the "File" menu. This option allows you to select the data types you are interested in. For example, if it is important for you to restore photographs, then there is no need to spend time analyzing archives, text files, music recordings and other documents.

Also, the program is equipped with a search function, with which you can instantly find the desired file, but on condition that you remember the exact name of the document. What if you forgot a little? Then another service will come to the rescue - "Filter". However, and he forces a bit "wiggle your brains." Applying a filter is a smart choice if you can still remember some of the characters in the file name.

However, to quickly extract the desired document from the "heap" of directories in the explorer, you will need to correctly form a search using keywords or a mask. After some manipulations, the desired file is in front of us. And now it can be brought back to life. But before that, review the likelihood of recovery. There are only three ratings - "Low", "Medium", "High". Even from the name it is clear in which case your file has a chance of returning.

To save, just right-click on the desired file or directory and select "Restore". In the window that opens, select a new location for the file. The recovered files can be written to any disk available on your system. Recall that recoverable objects must be saved to other partitions. Moreover, the program allows the user to select additional options - restore the folder structure and alternative data streams (various auxiliary information).

Another feature of the program is to save the scan results as an image. The procedure for creating an image is recommended to be performed immediately after scanning the media. An exact copy of the analyzed disk will save time when you next access lost data. Moreover, by working with a "snapshot" of a partition, you can avoid unpleasant incidents associated with incorrect user actions or incorrect behavior of the operating system.

Burning a disk image

In conclusion, we can say that the Handy Recovery program coped with the task we set. She found the lost document and saved it from imminent death by successfully completing all recovery operations. Additional questions may arise during the course of work. To solve them, it is recommended to use the reference guide, which contains a complete description of the tools of the program in question.

However, there is also a significant disadvantage of the test version - saving only one file per day. Of course, this is not enough for a preliminary evaluation of the product. After purchasing the program, this restriction is removed and you can restore any files in unlimited quantities.