Disk Recovery Wizard

Storage devices don’t have unlimited life, and can get damaged, or become corrupt because of various reasons. It’s a pain to lose your data all of a sudden, but with the help of specialized applications like Disk Recovery Wizard, you can take the time to scan fixed, or removable drives in an attempt to recover deleted files, and folders.

As the name might suggest, running the application brings up a wizard menu, which gradually takes you through a series of steps where you get to choose the drive to scan, type of scan to perform, as well as the files to recover. You can skip this operation for a regular task, and you can also initiate the wizard at any given moment.

The application can read both NTFS and FAT file systems, so there’s a high chance you can recover data from various different types of storage devices. There are two available scan methods, one which reconstructs the entire file system, but can take almost forever to finish, while the other only scans for recently deleted files which can be easily detected.

Sooner or later you end up in the main menu, which is pretty much structured like a classic File Explorer window. A side navigation panel lets you operate different parameters, depending on the selected item, or location you’re in, with an upper address field to jump to different locations, or easily return to previous ones.

You can clearly view all removed items, with different filters you can apply in order to narrow down results. You can use the dedicated search field in case you know, or at least guess what the file name is. You can select more files to recover, and it’s best to save them on a different drive than the one you scan.

Bottom line is that every device loses its initial functionality status with time, but replacing your hard disk drive doesn’t also mean you get files and folders back as well. Disk Recovery Wizard aims to solve this issue, letting you scan different file system, and work in a familiar environment so you don’t lose any time with accommodation, and quickly find files through a search function, and different filters.