Pandora Recovery is a powerful free tool to attempt recovery of permanently deleted files.

Pandora Recovery is a powerful free tool that provides its users an effective way to attempt recovery of permanently deleted files. And that does not mean restoration of a file from Recycle Bin.

Pandora Recovery actually recovers files permanently removed from Recycle Bin, files originally deleted using Shift + Delete keys bypassing Recycle Bin and files deleted from DOS prompt.

Pandora Recovery is not a backup tool - it can recover files that have been deleted months before Pandora Recovery was installed.

And while the likelihood of successful recovery is negatively affected by the time passed since the deletion of files Pandora Recovery users were able to recover files deleted more than five years after deletion!

When you delete a file on FAT32 or NTFS file system, its content is not erased from disk but only reference to file data in File Allocation Table or Master File Table is marked as deleted. It means that you might be able to recover deleted files, or make it visible for file system again.

Pandora Recovery allows you to find and recover recoverable deleted files from NTFS-formatted volumes, regardless of their type - you can recover pictures, songs, movies or documents.

Pandora Recovery will scan your hard drive and build an index of existing and deleted files and directories (folders) on any logical drive of your computer with supported file format. Once the scanning is complete you have full control over which files to recover and what destination to recover them to.

You can BROWSE the hierarchy of existing and deleted files, or you can use SEARCH functionality to find a deleted file if you remember at least one of the following:
· full or partial file name,
· file size,
· file creation date, or
· file last accessed date

On top of that, Pandora Recovery allows you to preview deleted files of certain type (images and text files) without performing recovery. This feature becomes really important if you are forced to recover deleted files to the same drive.

Currently you can preview files having several image file types (BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, ICO,TIF, TGA, PCX, WBMP, WMF, JP2, J2K, JBG, JPC, PGX, PNM, RAS, CUR) and several text file types (TXT, LOG, INI, BAT, RTF, XML, CSS). Quick Viewer allows you preview file contents as text if it cannot find appropriate viewer for it.

To use quick viewer you can select deleted file and or click the Quick Viewer icon or right click on deleted file and select 'Quick View'. Quick View will then display a preview of deleted file.

Here are some key features of "Pandora Recovery":

· Recover Archived, Hidden, Encrypted, Compressed files
· Recover Alternate Data Streams (ADS)
· Recover Images, Documents, Movies, or any other type of files
· Recovery success estimate
· Review File properties and Drive properties
· Recover to Local Hard Drive, Network Drive, or Flash Drive
· Recognizes NTFS, NTFS5 and NTFS/EFS
· Compatible with Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2000
· Wizards, hints and context-sensitive help

Requirements:

· File system: NTFS, NTFS5, NTFS+EFS
· 233 Mhz Pentium processor or better, 64MB RAM, 4MB free hard drive space, Mouse, Internet Connection (dial-up modem, cable modem or DSL) for program updates.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Expands the list of supported formats to include FAT16 and FAT32. This allows recovery of files wiped out from digital camera cards, USB flash drives, Win98 and some older WinXP hard drives.
· Implements support for automatic device insertion and removal detection, makes search statistics available to the user, adds % overwritten to the list of sort criteria and improves navigation paths.
· By default, only the deleted items, or folders with deleted files or subfolders will be displayed in the browse tree. The display can be toggled by using the 'Show deleted items only' button in the toolbar.
· The user interface has been localized to Russian and Serbian locale.

Reasons why this program is marked as ad-supported:

· Attempts to change the homepage for web browsers installed on the system
· Offers to download or install software or components (Ask toolbar) that the program does not require to fully function