Accidental deletion of important files is a much less rare occurrence than you might think . Crashes of the operating system, a hard drive that stops working properly, a deleted partition or the formatting of a drive such as a USB stick can lead to the loss of important files and contents. AnyRecover data recovery is a powerful program for Windows – compatible with Windows 10, 8.1, 8 and Windows 7 – that allows you to recover over a thousand file formats that you may have considered lost forever . This software supports any type of document, photo, video, email, audio file, archive used globally.
After installing AnyRecover for Windows you are faced with a clean interface in shades of orange also in Italian , with the choice of the destination to choose from. You can restore files from the following destinations :
- Common Destinations– Includes heavily used system folders such as Desktop, Trash, and Documents.
- Hard drives– Shows the list of hard drives connected to the PC.
- Removable external devices– This section lists the connected external drives, such as SD cards or for example if you want to restore data from a USB stick .
- I can’t find my partitions– For partitions that Windows can no longer read properly.
- Computer Crash Recovery– Allows you to recover a crashed
- Virtual disks– It is even possible to recover accidentally deleted files within a virtual disk.
- Specify a destination– With this option you can indicate to the program a specific folder in which to search for deleted files.
In our case we used this tool to recover data from the hard disk and from a Micro-SD card, a simple and, above all, fast procedure. After clicking on the chosen tool, the scan starts – which can be stopped or paused at any time – showing the files found in real time . Once the search is finished (about four minutes to recover almost 60 GB, corresponding to 17 thousand files) the results are organized into subfolders by file type : photos, audio, video, documents and storage and these, in turn, incorporate folders for every single file format .
A handy search bar allows you to filter the results and you can choose a list view or with previews . For more experienced users, it is also possible to show the list of folders that can be restored , containing the files found by the scan, by clicking on View diagram. Finally, at the bottom left you can choose the modification date of the files to show , being able to choose between:
- All dates
- Today
- Last 7 days
- Personalized
With a few simple clicks you can , therefore, restore the files that you thought were lost . With a double click you will have a preview of the file and you can decide whether to recover it immediately or not. Alternatively, the files you intend to recover can be selected in the search results list and then just click on Recovery .
iMyFone AnyRecover proved to be a great tool for restoring lost or deleted files .
Files supported by AnyRecover data recovery
As we have already mentioned, AnyRecover supports over a thousand types of files for recovery . Below we list the main formats supported for each file category .
- Documents– DOC / DOCX, XLS / XLSX, PPT / PPTX, PDF, CWK, HTML / HTM, INDD, EPS
- Images– JPG / JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF / TIF, BMP, PSD, CRW, CR2, NEF, ORF, SR2, MRW, DCR, WMF, DNG, ERF, RAW
- Video– AVI, MOV, MP4, M4V, WMV, 3GP, 3G2, MKV, ASF, FLV, SWF, MPG, RM / RMVB, MPEG
- Audio– AIF / AIFF, M4A, MP3, WAV, WMA, APE, MID / MIDI, OGG, AAC, RealAudio, VQF
- Email– PST, DBX, EMLX
- Archives and others– ZIP, RAR, SIT, ISO, exe, html, SITX
NOTE | If the data is overwritten, no software will be able to restore it, including AnyRecover. For this reason, our advice is to use as little as possible the device on which the files you would like to try to recover are present. The whole recovery procedure can take some time depending on the size of the drive to be scanned.
AnyRecover for Windows is available for free download : this version is complete in all file scanning and previewing functions, but allows you to restore only a limited number of files. For a few days you can buy a monthly plan for the full version , with unlimited file restore , for only 49 , 95 $ compared to the canons 69 , 95 $ , with a great discount of 30% . Alternatively, you can purchase the annual plan in 59 , 95 $ – 25% discount compared to the usual $ 79.95. Find the link for the free trial and for the purchase at the bottom of the article; it is also possible to pay using PayPal , as well as a credit / debit card.
