It can be installed on a hard drive or run from a portable storage device such as a memory card, removable drive, or CD. File Scavenger® can scan an entire physical hard drive to look for traces of defunct volumes.įile Scavenger® uses advanced algorithms to handle disks with bad sectors and badly corrupted partitions.
Except in severe cases, both the file and the folder path leading to the file can be recovered.įile Scavenger® can also recover files from a reformatted or corrupted volume even when the volume has been deleted and its original position and size are unknown. File Scavenger® supports both basic and dynamic disks, NTFS compression, alternate data streams, sparse files, Unicode filenames, etc. File Scavenger® can recover files that have been accidentally deleted (including files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from a network drive, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down) provided that recovery is attempted before the files are permanently overwritten by new data.
File Scavenger® Version 4 is a file 'undelete' and data recovery utility for Windows® 8, 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP and 2000.