Flash Recovery Toolbox

Flash Recovery Toolbox is a lightweight Windows application whose purpose is to help you recover deleted files from removable media devices and hard drives with the FAT file system (FAT12/FAT16/FAT32). The tool is able to retrieve deleted songs, images, photos and other types of files.

The utility works with the following portable devices: Secure Digital card (SD cards), xD-Picture Card, CompactFlash (type I/II CF cards), Sony Memory Stick, MultiMediaCard (MMC cards), PC Card, and SmartMedia Card, IBM Microdrive, flash card, USB drive, digital cameras, and diskettes.

Flash Recovery Toolbox employs a wizard for helping you recover the deleted files. This step-by-step approach is ideal for less experienced users, as they are guided throughout the entire configuration process.

You can select the drives from where you want to restore the files, select the target directory where you need to store the items, as well as view information about the source and target drives, such as disk label, disk type, FAT type, disk size, as well as free space.

During the scanning process, the application reveals details about the number of scanned items, found directories, detected files, last found name, as well as current operation (e.g. scanning clusters).

At the end of the task, you can check out a tree-like display with all the files and directories detected on your drive. You are allowed to select the ones that you want to save and check only the good files or all of them.

Flash Recovery Toolbox makes use of the black color for indicating that the detected files can be recovered and saved to your system, and gray for letting you know that the items are damaged permanently.

Flash Recovery Toolbox provides a straightforward approach for helping you recover lost or accidently deleted files, and can be handled by rookies and professionals alike. On the downside, it doesn’t offer support for advanced features for filtering the scanning results by file extension (e.g. EXE, PNG, BMP, MP3, WAV, AVI) and previewing the items before recovering them.