Īs with other file recovery programs Recuva works by looking for unreferenced data, but if the operating system has written new data over a deleted file then recovery will often not be possible. Piriform's Speccy is a nifty little system information utility. As of version 1.5.3 it can also recover files from Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4 file systems of Linux. It is able to recover lost directory structure and automatically renames files when trying to recover two files of the same name. The program works on FAT, exFAT and NTFS file systems of Windows. Now Cisco’s Talos Group says that isn’t the case.
Recuva was described by as an "effective tool for undeleting or salvaging files we sent for recycling and deleted, in the past". After the initial report that the CCleaner installer included malware, Avast/Piriform/CCleaner claimed that installing the latest version of CCleaner version 5.34 would knock out the infection.
Recuva can recover files deleted from internal and external hard disk drives, USB flash drives, memory cards, portable media players or all random-access storage mediums with a supported file system. Speccy Windows free for all Windows versions : Speccy Linux free for Ubuntu and compatible Linux distros : Speccy Android for Android 4.3 or newer (also see free version) : Speccy 1.7 MSDOS is no longer supported, use Windows version instead : Speccy Symbian is no longer supported, use Android version instead : Speccy 1.7. It is able to undelete files that have been marked as deleted the operating system marks the areas of the disk in which they were stored as free space. CCleaner uses the same familiar three-tab interface it always has. CCEnhancer can extend the cleaning capabilities of CCleaner. Recuva ( / r ɪ ˈ k ʌ v ə/) is an undeletion program for Windows, developed by Piriform. CCleaner is an easy-to-use, safe, well-known drive cleaner with other additional features, including a conservative registry cleaner, startup manager, and more. Including both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, but not RT tablet editions.