It’s a common scenario when we delete a file, only to realize later that it was imperative. Such are instances when the need to recover accidentally deleted files arises. In this post, we will review Advanced File Recovery, a data recovery software for Windows that can help you recover deleted files.
Advanced File Recovery, as the name suggests, is a program for Windows that can help you restore deleted files on your computer. It can help recover accidentally deleted files from internal and external drives. For instance, with the help of Advanced File Recovery, you can recover deleted documents, audio files, lost media files, and many others. It can tackle various data loss situations, including OS crashes, virus attacks, reformat, etc.
Advanced File Recovery is designed and developed by Tweaking Technologies, a company based in India founded in 2013 and has produced remarkable software and apps across productivity, system optimization, image editing, data recovery, and many others.
Data loss situations are unavoidable. There might have been times when you accidentally deleted data and had to repent later, or you lost important files to a system crash or virus attack. In such situations, you might think that your data is gone. In contrast, a data recovery software like Advanced File Recovery makes it possible to recover lost data from your PC regardless of the situation.
A tool like Advanced File Recovery doesn’t only help restore accidentally deleted data from your PC’s internal hard drives but even helps in external device recovery, whereby it can help you restore deleted files from external devices such as external hard drives, SD cards, and other USB drives.
We’ll review this data recovery tool, dive a little deeper to get to know its features better, and even see it in action.
Now that you have a brief overview of Advanced File Recovery, let’s get you started –
1. Download, run and install Advanced File Recovery on your Windows computer.
2. Select a location and scan for deleted data.
3. Select the mode of scan, i.e., Quick Scan or Deep Scan. The Quick Scan will scan for all recently deleted files, whereas the Deep Scan will conduct a detailed scan on your hard drive.
4. Click on the Next button
5. Select the file type you want to recover.
6. Click on the blue-colored Start Scan button located at the bottom-right corner of the interface and wait for the scan to complete.
7. Depending on your chosen scan type, you will now have a list of files you can recover.
8. You can always preview the files before restoring them.
9. Once you have selected the file you want to recover, click on the Recover Now button from the bottom-right corner of the screen.
Please Note: It is recommended to choose another path for recovering the file and not the original path as this may cause overwriting of the data.
Advanced File Recovery has an easy-to-use interface. Even if you are new to the concept of data recovery tools, you will still have no problems recovering accidentally deleted files. The navigation across the software is easy and self-explanatory. All the options pertaining to selecting drives, choosing scan mode, file types, etc., are clearly defined. Moreover, you can “Preview” files easily by viewing them in Tree View or File Type form.
Unlike many data recovery tools, Advanced File Recovery comes with a customizable interface. Here you can include or exclude file formats that you want or don’t want to recover.
Advanced File Recovery offers you two modes of scan with which you can look for permanently deleted files. While the Quick Scan lets you scan for recently deleted files, the Deep Scan can help you get deleted data even if the device has been formatted.
You can recover data from the internal hard drives present on your PC, external drives, SSDs, USB drives, SD cards, lost partitions, memory cards, and more.
You can preview files across all file formats before restoring them. You can preview audio files, documents, videos, and photos. As you can see from the screenshot above, you can preview files by File Type and view files in the Tree View.
Data loss can arise for many reasons – You may have accidentally deleted the wrong files, your system crashed, your PC was hit by malware, accidental formatting, and many more. Advanced File Recovery tackles these situations deftly and helps you recover lost files.
Advanced File Recovery offers you several filter options. Here you can filter out formats of files that you want or don’t want to appear in the scan results.
In an endeavor to keep the product free from any bugs and to make it better with more features, developers frequently roll-out updates. And, while you will be prompted as soon as an update is available, you can always fetch the latest update manually as well. To fetch an update –
1. Click on the hamburger icon at the top right corner of the interface.
2. Click on Check for Update.
If there is an update available, you will be prompted to download the update; else you will receive a message saying that Advanced File Recovery is up to date.
Advanced File Recovery offers you a trial version in which you can scan any internal or external drive for permanently deleted files. You can preview them and check if you can recover them. However, you will have to upgrade to a premium version to recover files. The premium version is priced at $69.95.
The data recovery tool comes with a 60-day money-back guarantee if not satisfied. You can contact the customer support team within 60 days and get a full refund.
We used Advanced File Recovery to restore permanently deleted files from a pen drive. After conducting a Deep Scan on a 7.43 GB Pen Drive, the scan tool took almost 4 minutes to complete. In this session, it scanned for 796 files and found 453 deleted files. To recover files, i.e., 453 files, total size of 3.04 GB, it took nearly 8 minutes for the files to be successfully recovered.
In the event you face any kind of doubt, whether it is regarding Advanced File Recovery’s technical aspects, license issues or any other feedback regarding the product, you can reach out to the customer support team for resolution.
You can click on the hamburger icon and further click on Contact Us, after which you will receive an online form where you can describe your issue. The customer support team will then get back to you promptly.
From the interface itself, you can click on Online Help and go through an extensive guide that will help you get familiar with the product’s technical aspects.
You can also mail your query to support@tweaking.in.
Q1. Is Advanced File Recovery Safe?
Yes, Advanced File Recovery is safe since it was not flagged as malware by any Antivirus products.
Q2. How much time will it take to recover data?
The time to recover lost data depends on the file size, the recoverability, the mode of scan you have chosen, and not forget your internet connection speed. For instance, we were able to recover nearly 3.5 GB worth of files in 8 minutes.
Q3. Does Advanced File Recovery recover data successfully?
In most conditions, yes. However, if the file you intend to recover is overwritten, you will not be able to recover data.
After having tested out Advanced File Recovery, we can safely conclude that it is one of the decent data recovery tools for Windows. You should try it out because, as we said, data loss situations are inevitable, and it is better to have a tool that can at least give you surety that your lost data will be recovered. For more such content, keep reading Top10PCSoftware. You can also reach out to us on Twitter, Facebook, Flipboard, and Pinterest
