Seagate File Recovery

Seagate File Recovery is a Windows software application designed specifically for helping you recover lost or deleted files. It works with FAT12/16/32, NTFS and NTFS5 disks, as well as removable drives.

The tool employs a wizard for helping you recover lost files so you are offered step-by-step assistance throughout the entire configuration process.

Seagate File Recovery gives you the possibility to select the drives that you want to scan. You can view details about the device letter, label, drive type, as well as size.

There’s support for two different scanning modes, namely fast and detailed. The first one is pretty quick but you should know that it is not able to retrieve all lost data, and this is way you may need the detailed method for analyzing all data structures.

The detailed mode offers you the freedom to filter the results by file extension. File types are organized with the aid of different categories, such as archive (e.g. RAR, TAR, ZIP), document (e.g. PDF, HTML, DOC, RTF, TXT, XML), font (e.g. TTF, CHR, BDF), picture (e.g. PSD, BMP, JPG, PNG, ARW), audio (e.g. AIF, ASF, M3U, MID, MP3, OGG), and video (e.g. 3GP, AVI, WMV).

What’s more, you are allowed to save the scan info to a file on your computer in order to avoid scanning the same information once again. Files can be previewed before being saved on your computer.

We have tested Seagate File Recovery on Windows 8.1 Pro and noticed that it eats up a lot of CPU and memory, so the overall performance of your computer may be hampered.

The scan results are revealed in a tree-like display so you can easily browse throughout the content of lost folders and files. The tool shows detailed information about each item, such as name, size, creation and modification date, as well as date when it last accessed.

The results can be filtered by file extension or date (creation, modification or last accessed). You are allowed to manually select the files that you want to recover and perform searches throughout the scan results using file masks. A log is displayed at the end of a recovery session with details about successful or failed tasks.

Seagate File Recovery helps you select the output folder, recover the real folder structure, save the entire content of a target folder while ignoring file masks, as well as get security attributes for NTFS files.

Seagate File Recovery delivers a straightforward approach and several smart tools for helping you recover deleted data, and is suitable for rookies and professionals alike.