Another advantage of using DiskDigger, beside of its portability, to restore deleted files is that you can preview the files while the scanning process is still running. The scanning process entirely runs in memory so that there won’t be any temporary files written unless you want to save the restored files. Instead of depending on the file system, DiskDigger directly reads the the raw data chunks (sectors) to restore deleted files.

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Recuva displays a wizard the first time you run it, providing the easiest way in recovering deleted files. The first screen asks you the type of the files that you want to recover if it is a music, picture, document or video file type. The next screen asks you to specify the location of the deleted files. Then the last one tells you that Recuva is ready to start the recovering process and ask if you want to enable deep scan.

If you don’t like wizard mode, then you can turn it off through the options menu within the program. The options also lets you to restore the folder structure of the deleted files if you want to. There are also other options for you to choose as well such as enabling the display of zero byte files.

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Recuva works only for Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and 98.