From Newsgroup: alt.comp.freeware
Allan Higdon <
allanh@vivaldi.net> wrote:
"The Windows Team has quietly rolled out a file recovery tool in the Microsoft Store, which can be used to recover deleted files from your
Windows 10 or 11 computer. You may not have heard of it unless you
are familiar with the command-line tool, or CMD. It's Windows File
Recovery, which is a command line app available from the Microsoft
Store. Use this app to try to recover lost files that have been
deleted from your local storage device (including internal drives,
external drives, and USB devices) and can’t be restored from the
Recycle Bin.
But many people are not familiar with using command line mode, and
Eusing Free File Recovery provides a user interface. It adds a
graphical user interface (GUI) to Microsoft Windows File Recovery,
making it more accessible to anyone who does not like the command
prompt."
Updated to Version 2.1
Portable Version available
Home Page
https://www.eusing.com/free_file_recovery/file_recovery.htm
Portable Download
https://www.eusing.com/Download/FileRecoverySetup.zip
From what I've read in a quick scan, Windows File Recovery (WinFR)
supports only the NTFS file system. Maybe it relies on its journaling.
The following article says it works with NTFS, FAT, exFAT, and ReFS, but
notes recovery is only reliable with NTFS. With non-NTFS partitions,
what you manage to recover will have you digging into the files to see
just what you recovered since filenames and folder names won't be
restored. WinFR does not recover metadata (file and folder names).
Windows File Recovery Review & Comparison with a Third-Party Software
https://www.cleverfiles.com/howto/windows-file-recovery-tool.html
The Eusing GUI frontend eliminates one weakness, but not the others.
By the way, if you have deleted files you need to recover, don't be
doing any writes to the disk as those could step on the clusters you
wanted to recover. That also means no installing of software, like
WinFR, Eusing anything, Recuva, etc. Use portable recovery apps on
removable media; e.g., TestDisk, PhotoRec. Recovery tools you have to
install should be performed before you have a need to recovery deleted
files.
WinFR is available only for Windows 10, and later. Others can be used
on Windows, Linux, and macOS, but some, like Recuva, are also Windows
only. See the table in the above article to compare WinFR against a few alternatives. Notice the difference in filetype counts each supports.
WinFR may get the most common ones, but less than 50 versus others that
are 100, 400, or more than 480.
If you use secure delete, like in Recuva, CCleaner, Eraser, etc, you
won't be recovering anything from those wiped clusters.
Looks like WinFR app was first released 1/20/2020. I don't see an
update date sometime later. Other recovery tools have been available
far longer.
To Allan:
Please don't use excessively long lines (format=flowed). Configure your
NNTP client to a maximum line length of 72. Not all NNTP clients will
wrap long lines to the window width, especially if the post is not shown
in its own window, but within a preview pane inside the NNTP client.
Luckily my client has an option to rewrap lines at the recommended
72-character line length (or to whatever I configure). Perhaps Opera
Mail does not permit you to use format=flowed in e-mail, but NOT in
newsgroups.
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