R-Undelete is a file recovery utility designed for Windows PC. It might prove to be of good use if you need to immediately restore files that were deleted by accident or lost after dealing with various types of system or hardware-related problems.
The first thing you need to do is to make sure you don't install the program on the drive you wish to analyze and restore data from. Then, all you need to do is to launch the tool, choose the scan location, and R-Undelete will start looking for lost or deleted data.
All found files are nicely organized based on their type. You can use the integrated search tool to immediately find the files you want to restore.
In my testing, I scanned a USB drive for lost files. It immediately completed the scanning process and allowed me to preview some of the found files (some files are way too damaged to be previewed). Also, unlike many other recovery tools, I was able to actually restore a lost file while using the trial version of the tool.
The only thing I didn't like was the appearance of the interface. It didn't strike me as a newly-created interface. Still, it was very intuitive. So, it doesn't matter that much, at least not to me.
Hence, R-Undelete proves to be a reliable solution for recovering lost data on your PC. It's efficient, easy-to-use, and works 100%.
v4.8 [Jul 15, 2014]
Features:
- S.M.A.R.T. attribute monitoring. R-Undelete can display S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) attributes for hard drives to show their hardware health and predict their possible failures. Any unnecessary work with such hard drives should be avoided if S.M.A.R.T. warnings appear.
Bugfixes:
- The Create scan information file option on the Create Image dialog box was enabled by default. Fixed.
- R-Undelete might show deleted files/folders which MFT records were occupied with new ones on wrong places. Fixed.
- A default Crash Report filename contained an illegal character :. Fixed.
- R-Undelete didn’t take into account folder’s hard links during file search. (It didn’t show files in hard links.). Fixed.
- Incorrect behavior of the Failed hardlink recovery dialog box. Fixed.
- The Create scan information option was selected by default on the Create Image dialog box. Fixed.
- R-Undelete failed to create an image when a new folder was selected. Fixed.
- R-Undelete might freeze when attempting to open a file of a multi-file image with some other files moved to another place. Fixed.
- There was no warning about re-writing the scan info file when a new pair of a disk image and scan info files were to be written over the existing one. Fixed.
- It was impossible to change scan parameters for simultaneous disk scanning and imaging. Fixed.
- R-Undelete might freeze when analyzing file systems with cyclic cross-links. Fixed.
- R- Undelete didn’t warn its user that is was going to overwrite an existing scan info or image file. Fixed.
- The Hexadecimal viewer might freeze after an I/O error. Fixed.
- Some cosmetic bugfixes.
