FREE Data Recovery Even After Formatting!!

[@Whosreadyformonsterjam]

4:47 for anyone wanting to get to the recovery process. It actually does work, very very helpful.

[@foxtaco]

was looking for this comment

[@hitthetraget8233]

you're a saviour

[@AkajjaObunaku]

Thanks 😊

[@sunnexito]

My hard drive blocked with bitlocker and i cant find a key would it work?

[@GameNOOBbb]

Does it work with a external ps4 hard drive or not

[@RachealK7671]

You have no idea how much you saved my life! I had an external drive that I had to buy a sleeve for because the port was broken. When I plugged it in, everything was gone. I now have 36,803 files being recovered. These were all from my 5 kids from babies until now. Thank you!!!!

[@Sparky_da2]

why did it shown to buy premium in my case bro? it will not recover if i dont buy premium smh

[@arendelle.]

With file name?

[@Okrs-4]

What is the app you used?

[@jmatthews8889]

Thank you so much lost 17000 photos of my families life. I thought I had a house fire without the house fire until I found your video I want to say thank you so much. I was depressed all week about this and thank God it was able to recover.

[@yourlinuxguy]

How did you recovered all those? I can't recover them. You didn't use the hardrive? or you did it asap?

[@11palomito11]

GOD OF WHAT??

[@raimi7899]

Are you really recovered that 17k photos???!

[@yourlinuxguy]

@@raimi7899 Use Autopsy, I recovered all my photos fron a pendrive where I didn't write anything after deleting

[@yourlinuxguy]

@@raimi7899 I used Autopsy, to recover 100% photos from my USB

[@Naajjori]

One-year later and this video still proves Valid. Thank you s much for this. You Just saved my life. It works and it's Free!

[@Okrs-4]

What is the app you used??

[@stolenmynametyyoutube]

Perfect Timing with this video. I deleted Steam drive yesterday, instead of the Thumbdrive I meant to format.

[@deginetshiferaw813]

I have no words. but, thank you very much! I've recovered my all data that was formatted unexpectedly. Thank You!

[@LeoKadettTouringCar]

take my like ! other 99% youtubers show paid application and dont even mention that, i recover half of data from my old Western Digital from 2006! most pictures are fine ! some videos and very few music can be played . Thank you very much!

[@johanwejedaldesign]

Your tip litterary saved 6 months of work for me! Thanks a million!

[@opcapgaming2232]

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[@tanmayhannikeri4130]

you have no idea how much greatfulf I am for finding this video. man you the best. keep up the good work.

[@1Enjaz]

As always, thanks Rich. You make it simple and fun.

[@IgorVasquesBarata]

What if I do it using the SSD card running the system?

[@douglas50m]

Thank you so very much for teaching us about this program. I could recover almost all my data that i accidentally formated from a hdd.

[@ianbateman154]

Many thanks from the UK, managed to save my files after a big crash, and this was so useful.👍

[@jelenamudric3762]

It worked! My child deleted my files, and I was away on a business trip, so I was afraid I am too late - I saw it 7 days later but it still worked. Thanks!

[@Jeeeteope]

How big were the files

[@jelenamudric3762]

@@Jeeeteope mostly photos and short video clips but in total 5-6 GB. They were not named correctly but I got what I needed.

[@LetUsSeeEurope]

Using free version of recuva ? Or some other files?

[@Escaped2ElSalvador]

Thank you so much! My laptop got hit by a power surge and died, I extracted the SSD and bought an external enclosure, managed to take some files out but then it stoped allowing me to enter the User librery, I thought I lost it all, but your insturctions worked!! Many thanks! And thanks to the developers of Recuva!!

[@BabluSingh-md4sw]

work, from their detailed security assessments to their transparent communication with clients. Their ethical approach ensures that all solutions are implemented with the highest standards of integrity. This combination of professionalism and ethics has set them apart as a leader in the field.

[@heymusiclover1]

Thank you so much, your video has been a tremendous help, thought I'd lost my data for good, but thanks to your know how and tips, all data was restored perfectly :)

[@nicholaibrchner2374]

Have used this software before to rescue data. Works wonders!

[@dee1380]

This my 1st time... I agree!!! It worked!!!

[@kiv_daniels]

@@dee1380wow is it free??

[@adhokshajkulkarni4275]

you know They say the bigger the beard, the greater the experience. Thanks Man! Got all my data back !!!

[@CoronelMargarina]

Dude, thanks for real. Just recovered my 100 Hours Dark souls 3 save. I thought it had cloud sync with Steam, imagine my face when i booted up the game after formatting the PC and my saves weren't there...thankfully i went to play it right after reinstalling windows and the program was able to restore it with no problems.

[@Sparky_da2]

why did it shown to buy premium in my case bro? it will not recover if i dont buy premium smh

[@CoronelMargarina]

@@Sparky_da2 damn no idea, i managed to use it free without problems

[@Sparky_da2]

@@CoronelMargarina nowadays everything is against me. whatever i try to do, ends up in another problem and tryna fix dat,then it give me new problem

[@PrakashGholap-vr6xl]

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[@dee1380]

It Worked!!!! Mannn, thanx!! I thought this was a video sellin a gimmick at 1st..but I was desperate & took a chance anyways.. I been tryin 2 recover files I lost in a folder due 2 a virus since Monday(5 days), it has been frustratin, to say the least....sleepless night, daily routine flow interrupted, overeating, etc. Malware made 1 of my folders completely empty & unable to open...alot of those files have been there for months, & due to finance draw back, I have not been able to back them up like I normally due. I followed this video step-by-step, & it worked!!! I was able to see & retrieve every missin/deleted file, data, music, pics, video, documents, etc.!!! And I saved those files to a new folder on anotha installed drive as recommended.. The program is free!!! It will ask u to upgrade, but it isn't necessary to upgrade the program to retrieve your missin files....the free version takes care of it all.. Whew!! Thanks again!!

[@blazethechannel5852]

I believe it's pronounced Ree-cuv-ah. As in "recover".

[@Ian_Staff]

It is a corrupted spelling of "recover", but it would have benefited from an extra "v" to hammer the point home 😆

[@Tamed_Delirium]

I didn’t even think of it that way lol

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[@alimprolegend]

who asked vro

[@petem.3719]

So appropo of nothing that I can't wait to hear from the crypto-scammer sock puppets.

[@ashworthst]

The tech “Talks too much”, just get to the point, this was the videos will be half as long !!

[@Userznamerandomized]

Bot comment

[@JB-nh2dx]

Thank you so much for your video. It literally SAVED me in restoring my valuable baby pictures of my kids after having them all deleted after formatting the SD card. It worked 🎉🎉

[@patf3207]

Used Recuva before but did not have all these tips. Currently trying to get back files from a formatted external that was working fine last time I used it and your video was helpful and detailed. Currently scanning for the files but my hopes are high. Thank you!

[@patf3207]

Didn’t do sh!t

[@georgebell117]

Worked great, quick, easy explanation and it was FREE :)

[@MapedMod]

Simplest, most comprehensive tutorial with explanation that also shows the possible alternatives. Great job! (but the compoany is not called CCleaner but Piriform)

[@srvuk]

Always go into data recovery attempts with a very high expectation of failure. Having thoroughly tested and attempted to use many products over the decades, few have any value at all. Recover (phonetically think bruvva) is the correct pronunciation from what the company told me many years ago.

[@dvongrad]

A little misleading in that formatting the drive was a quick format, which simply overwrites the FAT and marks the space as free. Also, Recuva's capacity to restore files will depend on the colour of the circle before the file name-green for a very good chance of recovery, yellow for 50/50, and red for near zero.

[@CyberCPU]

Quick format is always the default. In order to do a longer format you have to actually uncheck the quick format selection.

[@soulstenance]

@@CyberCPU Point is that quick format is practically identical to just deleting the files if not entirely identical. It also won't damage flash memory like a full format would since no bytes are actually being overwritten. If there is a tool that can recover reliably from a fully formatted drive that would be quite something. This is great information for the average user who might not have known this was possible though.

[@CyberCPU]

@@soulstenance it isn't possible in most cases. In the case of an accidental format, it's likely it will be a quick format. I don't know of a way to reliably recover files from a regular format.

[@soulstenance]

@@CyberCPUFair point. 😁

[@edbel6861]

​@@CyberCPUdoes it work with Android phones

[@zeromailss]

Thank you! So tired of these "guide" that just end up as ads and all of the link in google is for paid software, like I get it that it is a profitable business to sell that kinda software but I know there is free software that can do the same or better so thank god for this guide man it is so annoying to accidently delete your data even tho it isn't important data and mostly just personal stuff (music, video, etc) it is still something that I wish I could just recover to save time so I'm waiting on the scan rn

[@Rishabh1201]

thankyou so much man due to this i am able to recover my sisters wedding photos

[@OlettaLiano]

Best tool to 100% delete date from an old drive is a hammer. 👍👍

[@jason_a_smith_gb]

Done that. I always bin drives that way and break SATA port.

[@sabariraja8943]

All I want to say is a big thank you, and cheers to what you doing. Just now recovered my files with the same way.

[@thinkhaing7705]

When I try I cannot get back Recording video file can’t open it and pdf files also can’t open it May be something wrong so someone can you guide me please 🙏🙏🙏

[@sabariraja8943]

@@thinkhaing7705 I think you also faced the same thing, after the processes over you need to go and check what all the files recovered. In the list, you might found something is recoverable and something is not. Just select all and copy or save to another hard drive. It shows not recoverable, but you can save. Try that.

[@EliShaulBenAbvraham]

Thank you friend, your video is very instructive, I appreciate your generosity in sharing the information. From me you have my subscription and I like your videos.

[@TJ440-xyz]

This is awesome, at least so far it seems to be working, I installed a new drive so I could copy the files of a 2tb external hard drive to a local folder to move to dropbox, after a bottle of whiskey i accidently formatted the wrong the drive, cleared most of my work and personal files from 10 or more years... it's at 4% of scan 1 of 3, estimated time left 7 hours, found over 60,000 files so far

[@monicalee7257]

this great and such a real big help thank you for showing us ,just one thing can you have it restore the folders the files are in at all ? or yyou just get a big list of all files

[@padders1068]

Rich! Great video thanks for sharing!

[@iolanisjourney4828]

Thank you so much for this super helpful video!!! I was able to recover all my files, thanks to you!!!

[@patriciaaguiar3193]

You just saved my life. Can't thank you enouph 🙌🙌

[@CatamaranChannel]

Great video! Any solution if windows/recuva can't see the drive/sd card?

[@thegimpiessocialclub3113]

Thank you, this works ! Now i just need to buy a 1tb hard drive to retrasnfer my data to so i can then copy it back to the original (currently formatted) hard drive later.

[@felixsteinert5946]

Thank you so much for this video! It helped me alot!

[@DesignStox.]

Thank you so much! I was just wasting my time searching on youtube thank god you helped me .

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[@yourpcmd]

Good video, however, when you delete it from the SD card, just because it does not go into the recycle bin does not mean they are deleted. They don't get really deleted until you remove the SD card because they are stored in a temp location and sometimes depending on availability, in memory. To prove that, simply hit CTRL + Z and your files will return. To permanently delete the files, hit Shift + Delete.

[@kevinmoysen8765]

You have no idea how much you saved me with this comment thank you so much

[@yourpcmd]

@@kevinmoysen8765 you bet

[@meniiix]

I accidently deleted files on my sd card and my gf told me to CTRL + Z but it didn't work. I think its because of what you said. I only have like 20 gigs on my laptop available and the sd card is in the 60s. Good comment. I hope it goes up in the comment sections. Also tried the app and it worked! Worked too well. brought back stuff I had long ago deleted lol

[@WilLSOwNs]

Great video. I used to use hiren’s booted like over 20 years ago and about 9 years ago I got robbed and lost all that plus some and I couldn’t remember the name of the software. I had the image of hirens on a cd and other doftware to fix pcs until I got robbed 9 years ago. Thanks for sharing and keep it up.

[@kalilespinosa6353]

I'm trying this and I hope it works but the amount of photos and vids I stored in the formatted usb is immense, scanning takes a day. I'll update. Thank u still for the tutorial huhu

[@a.mussbacher2345]

Thank you so much! New subscriber for life.

[@Alpha-ms9nj]

I once had a hard drive that wouldn't boot at all. I had to learn how to use Test Disk and Photo Rec which are Linux based recovery tools. I had zero experience with Linux but I finally figured it out and got all my data files and photos back. I then trashed that HDD for a new one and reinstalled Windows. I've used Recuva to get back files and photos before even long after I realized I had deleted stuff. Luckily the files weren't overwritten and recoverd nicely. It works well.

[@rjjen1696]

Glad I found your valued information - thanks

[@earlt911]

TY so much for the educational videos!!

[@sayoombeva3015]

Worked like a charm👌, thank you!

[@theerawatech]

You saved me, thank you so much. With the latest version, it make the original file name and folder possible, great app.

[@feenixdexter]

so thankful of you, saved my day, its worked.

[@clerissonmesquita]

Thank you so much for your invaluable information, highly appreciate it, keep it up the outstanding job, have a great day.

[@gotbordercollies]

Awesome (yet again!) 😊

[@Vaibhav-s9f]

One shot guide ... Thank You !

[@stevehill3782]

I recently bought a second hand WD Elements 18TB external USB hard drive for backup purposes. I initialised the drive on a Win 10 pro system and created a new simple volume but when formatting the drive I un-checked the quick format option and did a full format - it took 28 hours to complete. I did this believing that all data on this drive belonging to the previous owner would now be permantently deleted and un-recoverable. In your video you formated the SD card leaving the quick format box checked. Could you comment on the difference between quick and full formatting and whether or not a full format really does completely reset the drive to factory state? Nice work, just found your channel and subscribed.

[@swanandmarathe7572]

Amazing Info. Simple explained and very effective

[@asthaaggerwal6282]

Hey , would this work on am iPhone . If it’s been used after format. Grateful for your answer

[@denisdesmarais]

Awesome video, I checked your channel, your video is funny! You earned a subscriber, Take care!

[@OptionGal]

Was able to completely recover some files I absent-mindedly deleted, thinking I had already done a backup. Many thanks!

[@tonymarms8908]

thank you for this video, very informative and straight forward. 👍👍 question though if it works also on iPhone after it was reset?

[@Sparky_da2]

why did it shown to buy premium in my case bro? it will not recover if i dont buy premium smh

[@woofyjay6110]

currently in the middle of it and it needs 5 hours, ill take it, i see 1.4k files so far and i had 17k on one folder, i have a lot of hope for this. i will update once i have progress

[@CieCreations]

Hi, thank you for your tutorial. I'm just wondering, is this applicable even if we reformatted our windows which totally removed all our previous files? Thank you.

[@xx3868]

Great video but what deleter can you sure to fully erase the SSD so Diskdrill ect cant find any and did you have to have TRIM on or off. Is better to encrypt whole SSD THEN do a full erase? Are their literally "hidden, reserved" blocks or data these erase programs miss and those blocks could have data on them? Egs are Windows "reset" erase and BIOS erase and CCleaner and 3rd party. do they all do roughly the same level of "erased" .thanks..

[@senritsujumpsuit6021]

Test-disk and Photorec are wonderful alternatives Test-disk fixes ruined partitions data and Photorec recovers files even if the drive is fully not accessible

[@mechcntr7185]

You demonstrated the recovery using the "Quick Format". Would it work for the regular format?

[@TheLoFiLounge24]

This sounds amazing, gotta try it out soon :D was close to buy software, thank god i found your video.

[@ba-survive-til-your-not]

Can I use the software to recover from a factory-reset iPhone 4(yes a 2010 iPhone)? The data is still on the phone (the phone is locked, and iTunes won't open it but states to do a factory reset). (I never uploaded the data from the phone to the cloud.)

[@EJSmith-dk3yg]

Just remembered a 2TB drive I had shelved a couple of years back as it was partitioned in half and had data on both partitions, when it lost the partition. I did not know how or if I could recover the data so I just shelved the drive. Any thoughts ?

[@DragonelfGaming]

Question: did you also made a video about mirroring drives? I had some dataloss after installing Windows while using mirrored drives... got the data back though, after seeing this video about deleted data recovery. If not, could you do a video about that?

[@claudiafischering901]

It is possible to recover the partition table and all files keep the names. with a open-source software - it is a common tool for linux.

[@EricRamosRamHose]

Howdy. Thanks for sharing this awesome video, and I have already attempted to do a recovery using all the tips on this video and had no such luck. What happened was, I was trying to create a Windows 11 recovery image for what I intended to be on a USB stick, but unfortunately during the creation of the Windows 11 recovery image it selected my 5TB external HDD (full of personal files collected over many years) and by the time I realised what was happening, the 5TB HDD had already been formatted and lost all my files. You mentioned on the video that my chances of recovering are slim to none, and it's looking like it now :( would really appreciate some more tips please. FYI, when I plug in my 5TB HDD now, it's only showing as 32Gb.

[@paula-devi]

Hey, I deleted my favorite movies, collected over the years, and I had no luck to bring them back for free. I suggest you to buy a good application, or find someone professional who can help you. For me is not big deal, these are just movies, I will find new movies to watch. Good luck

[@CervenkaMusic]

Thanks a lot! It worked like a charm ;-)

[@gaurabpaul7751]

I don't know how I can thank you sir.. you were like a god to me today.... One of my recent event all My data got erased from my memory card and i was panicking but your invaluable video saved me.......I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart.... Lots of love from a friend from India ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@RB.Project]

Subscribed! Will this also work with corporate encrypted storage devices?

[@CyberCPU]

No. I highly doubt it.

[@blakepace]

Once again, magic! Thank you again!

[@Dennis-zo3pk]

Bro u help me a lot coz I was about to delete another folder just to delete another folder I mistakenly selected that was too big to even go to the recycling bin

[@jchgoldhawk]

Hello, I want to say thank you very much. I deleted a video recording and I was able to recover it

[@dgetovTube]

ULTRA USEFUL !!! THANK YOU

[@siriuslul4762]

thanks for saving my mistakenly formatted 2x3tb harddrives

[@vishalkapil6059]

Hi I am totaly disappointed to recover hdd 300 data old family photos and video Delhi nehru place charges extra money and not source but I try daily another way but I day I see your video and use portable tool it's working first time see my lost pics I am happy recouca use many times but potable tool recovery my pics without charge TKS your support

[@larryFWD]

I've not even watched the full video yet and even though I am supposed to be excited that deleted files from a formatted drive are recoverable, I can't ward off the scary feeling that nothing is permanently deleted especially when we sometimes sell off our phones, laptops (with drives in them), etc... SCARY!!

[@DJRicoRadio]

I always tell the customer that what ever they watch or dosoftware photo or video 's saved somewhere. So yes its how the fbi or us folks find more then just deleten stuff

[@Tamed_Delirium]

So I wonder if you had the system running for a day or longer in idle or on a game or something. Would you have the same success? Since there’s the chance it’ll get overwritten?

[@BloodInkPages]

I am an author, and I just accidently formatted my drive. I lost everything. I hope this works even a little bit

[@CyberCPU]

If it was a quick format then it probably will. Let me know how it works out. Hope it works for you.

[@BloodInkPages]

@@CyberCPU Thank you, and it was quick format, but unfortunately, it did not work.

[@CyberCPU]

​@@BloodInkPages Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately once the data is written over there's not much you can do.

[@geosystemstechnology3497]

What happens if you instead, simply delete the partition on a hard disk instead of actually formatting it? Are the file names still lost or can you get them back?

[@BeingMotivated_02]

did you find any software usefull please help me out>>>

[@DJRicoRadio]

As far as i know. I Used Linux to access a drive and recover files. Got to.check.for.the name.of.the software

[@Blockyheadman]

though i wasn't able to recover my data, i now know for next time what to do when this happens. thanks for the video my mans

[@JohnSantosuosso]

Developer's Description By Piriform Recover files deleted from your Windows computer or from external storage (e.g. USB stick). Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses. (I might add, if your happen to be from Boston it is spelled correctly as "Recuva". 😂)

[@yankhodawain]

You have just saved my life

[@nagarjuna.19]

Thanks bro this video helped a lot

[@AbouAlHagag]

I am an Egyptian Rich you are an American, you already gived me a TANK, I like you.

[@jbdigitalstudio-bo4nl]

I am JB George, thank you so so sos much for this video guiding me to recover pictures from formatted SDcard

[@dariodimaggio3519]

Thanks for the video man. Unfortunately for me Recuva didn't manage to recover all the files from a sd I erroneously formatted

[@beckyacheing1217]

Hi Rich, thank you for the great work. Just a quick one. If the files i needed to recover on the drive / computer were saved on the desktop, documents or downloads. How do I go about that?

[@ShadowbladeBook]

I accidentally cloned a drive onto an external drive that had a ton of important data. What do you recommend using to recover the data that was overwritten on that external drive?

[@CyberCPU]

Nothing, there's unfortunately no way to recover data that's been overwritten.

[@alcrestgaming6643]

Subscribed, this is an exceptional content and your explanation is articulated and on point, it was a masterclass on fixing problems.

[@DevJTP]

I been looking for a new desk. Would you mind sharing the ones you have?

[@CyberCPU]

They are two adjustable work tables from Home Depot. They have a crank that adjusts their height like a standing desk.

[@DevJTP]

​@@CyberCPUAwesome, thanks!

[@daved9665]

@@CyberCPU The name of Recuva, I think, is a play on a NY or Boston accent - Recova instead of recover?

[@SuzanSiler]

FANTASTIC CHANNEL!!!!! CAN I RECOVER A USER PROFILE? After a windows 10 update, a temp user file created which I didn't understand at the time. Black screen and 2 days of learning and through a series of watching you I got the system back but not my desktop or anything else. THANK YOU. Took me 2 days - slow learner. Problem is (if I have it right) the original user profile was deleted in my amateur process. I can see a new profile. There was a time where I could see all my files under the original profile but now that folder is empty. Can the original profile contents be recovered or do I have to rebuild my system once I have recovered the files. I lost all my setup for 365 including outlook important file structure and saved emails.