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Recover Deleted Files with Handy Recovery

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Have you ever accidentally deleted a file? If you systematically backup everything, a small deletion is no problem. But what if your backup is corrupted?

In that case, you need a program to help recover files. This is what Handy Recovery will do for you. This little program can find and recover deleted files, if they are still lingering on your hard drive.

How it works

When you install Handy Recovery, you’ll first need to “analyze” your hard drive. This takes a few minutes, since the program will search for any lingering files on the disk that it can recover.

Once the analysis is done, all you have to do is browse for your file (or use the program’s search feature), and click “recover.” It really is that simple.

This can work because computers don’t actually delete data; instead, they delete the reference to the data. The original data isn’t gone until something else overwrites it. Handy Recovery comes in to find that old data for you and help salvage it.

My experience

I actually downloaded and ran the trial version of Handy Recovery. The analysis took 5-10 minutes on my machine; not bad, in my opinion.

I created a simple text file, put some text in it, and then deleted it (and emptied the recycle bin). I then went to recover it with Handy Recovery, but it couldn’t find my file. Maybe that’s just my bad luck today. No program of this nature is perfect.

Then I decided to try again, but the program had some kind-of permissions problem, claiming my username/password weren’t valid. It said the disk was unaccessible. I re-installed the program, and was able to run it again. But still no file. I’m thinking the access issue might be Windows Vista, although the website claims Handy Recovery is Vista certified. I’m stumped there.

Is it worth it?

You can recover one file per day with the free trial version. To do more than that, you’ll need to pay $39.

If you just lost a critical file, the free download is definitely worth a try. And if you lose files frequently, you might think about buying a full license. You can even get a special price if you order Handy Recovery with Backup Platinum.

In the end, your safest bet is to regularly, methodically, and systematically backup your files.

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Comments

3 Responses to “Recover Deleted Files with Handy Recovery”

Sergey Petrov
May 21st, 2007

Andrew, you probably couldn’t find your file because it was renamed by Windows when being deleted through Recycle Bin. Just don’t look for a familiar file name. Look for something like dcNNN.txt.
Andrew Flusche
May 21st, 2007

Hi Sergey,

Thanks for enlightening me there. I found several files like that in the RecycleBin folder. Unfortunately, I accidentally clicked on another file to recover, so I can’t recover the file I was trying to get (ran into the trial version limit).

I’ll give it a try tomorrow and see how it goes.

Thanks,
Andrew
principal computers launceston
October 12th, 2009

Thanks for sharing this information. This blog is quite interesting. Definitely i ll try with the trial version of Handy Recovery.Thanks for making me to know how to recover the deleted files.Hope it will helps me a lot.