The original 25 files were all found under the 'Deleted' category with filenames intact. Our first test on the drive where files had simply been deleted from the Recyle Bin was a resounding success. File name not found (As the name says, these are files where the name isn't found but you can still preview them to check if they're the ones you've lost). Tagged Files (Files with no name that are associated with their corresponding tags)Ĥ. File Path Not Found (Deleted files who've lost their original path)ģ. Deleted Files (Where you can usually find accidentally deleted files)Ģ. By default system files are disabled.įor each scan we ran, files were grouped into 4 categories.ġ. When you're offered the chance to scan you can choose to look for a particular type of file such as images. You can choose to scan drives but the utility also supports analysis of the Desktop, Recycle Bin and most importantly single folders. Given that the results of trying to recover fragments of files can be very overwhelming, we were very pleased to see that Tenorshare 4DDiG tries to display them in an organized way. Still, if you're considering buying software we encourage you to read all reviews thoroughly and make sure that the developer offers a refund policy. We do not believe that running data recovery tools in a virtual environment has a significant effect on how they function. We then checked if the utility could see it and if so, recover the files. The drive didn't mount automatically in File Explorer and showed as being unpartitioned in Windows 'Disk Management' utility. Recover corrupted files: We used the freeware program 'Victoria' to overwrite the volume header of the drive containing the files with zeroes. We then tried to recover the files from the formatted partition.ģ. Delete & Format : The files were deleted as outlined above and we also performed a 'Quick Format' using the 'Disk Management' utility built into Windows 11. File deletion : the album files were simply deleted from the drive and the Recycle Bin emptied.

The tests were performed one after the other on three separate virtual drives:ġ. We copied the files in the music album to a 512MB virtual NTFS-formatted hard drive, which was then attached to the Windows 11 virtual machine. The files also included 2 XML files, a torrent file and an 'SQLite' file containing details of the album. We did this as we wanted to see how the utility performed with a wide variety of files.The album included 4 music files (2 in Mp3 and 2 in FLAC) format, 6 JPG image files of album covers (with thumbnails) and 4 PNG image files. The files we chose for recovery are an album of Mozart's Music available from the Internet Archive. The only third-party tools installed besides Tenorshare 4DDiG were VLC Media Player and GIMP. (Image credit: Future) Tenorshare 4DDiG: How we testedįor our data recovery tests we used a virtual machine with a clean install of Windows 11. If you install the utility on a working computer, you can also use it to create a bootable USB device to try and recover data from a crashed computer. This is a shame, as we've reviewed data recovery utilities in the past that will automatically detect damaged files and try to repair them and display a preview so they can be recovered. These files need to already be saved somewhere on a drive : it doesn't seem you can repair from within the app. There are also built-in features for repairing corrupted pictures or videos. This certainly would be appreciated by users who are trying to recover files on a work device. One advertised feature we thought might be useful, is the ability to pause scans, then resume them later. As always we recommend trying the free version to check your drive's detected before subscribing. However there's also a page stating that it's possible to recover data from ext4 partitions for Linux. The main website says that 4DDiG for Windows supports the NTFS, exFAT, and FAT16/FAT32 file systems. This places it in the big leagues as far as Data Recovery tools go. The utility can apparently recover over 1,000 different file types. Tenorshare's 4DDiG's product page makes some very bold claims.

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