The best programs to recover deleted photos and documents

We are in the middle of the digital age, so all users have information that we keep in the form of files on our PC, this poses a problem since there is the possibility that important files may be deleted by mistake or that a problem with our hard drive make them lose. Fortunately there are programs to recover deleted files, these are not infallible but they can surely save you from more than one trouble.

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How programs to recover deleted files work

We have to emphasize that recovering deleted files is only possible in the case of mechanical disks or external storage media, when we erase a file on these disks, the operating system does not actually delete them, but they are marked and it is considered that the space they occupied may be overwritten. This means that the files are still on the hard drive so they can be recovered.

Of course, the more time that passes, the more chances that they have been overwritten and we can no longer recover them. In the case of internal SSD files if they are completely erased making it impossible to recover them, there the old magnetic plates score a victory.

We now turn to see some of the best solutions we have at our disposal

Recuva

Recuva is one of the most popular file recovery programs out there, it is free and very easy to use thanks to an interface that aims to be as simple as possible. Thanks to this application we can recover photos, documents, music, videos, emails, or any type of files.

Recuva allows you to recover files from all the available units, in addition, we can filter the results according to the type of file, for example, photos or documents. Something very interesting is that it allows you to do deep scans in case something becomes very difficult to find. There is also a premium version with more features.

Disk drill

Disk Drill has the advantage that it is compatible with Windows and macOS so it can read NTFS, FAT32, EXT, HFS + file systems and many more. Like Recuva, it lets us filter the results by file type, in addition to size and date, and allows fast and deep scans. The downside is that the free version only lets you recover files of 100 MB or less.

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard

Another free alternative that is available for Windows and macOS, maintains the same characteristics as the previous two and in its free version allows us to recover files until reaching a cumulative weight of 2 GB in all of them, from there you will have to choose the paid version. In any case, it will be enough for the needs of many users.

Glary Undelete

Glary Undelete follows in the wake of Recuva by allowing you to recover files for free without any restriction on the size of each of them or the accumulated total, this is compatible with the FAT, NTFS, NTFS +, and EFS file systems so its possibilities are quite wide. It allows us to filter by file name, creation date, size and current recovery status.