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Windows File Recovery

Author: Microsoft Corp
Date: 06/27/2020
Size: 9 MB
License: Freeware
Requires: 11|10
Downloads: 10868 times

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Windows File Recovery is a command-line tool from Microsoft to recover accidentally deleted files from HDD, SSD, USB, and memory cards. If you prefer not to use the Command Prompt, check out our best freeware data recovery apps here.

Features:

Target file names, keywords, file paths, or extensions in your recovery

Recovers JPEG, PDF, PNG, MPEG, Office files, MP3 & MP4, ZIP files and more

Recover from HDD, SSD, USB, and memory cards

Supports NTFS, FAT, exFAT and ReFS file systems

Windows File Recovery is a command-line tool. On the first run, you will see a list of commands:

winfr source-drive: destination-folder [/switches]

Replace [/switches] with any of the following:

/r – Segment mode (NTFS only, recovery using file record segments)
/n – Filter search (default or segment mode, wildcards allowed, trailing \ for folder)
/x – Signature mode (recovery using file headers)
/y: – Recover specific extension groups (signature mode only, comma separated)
/# – Displays signature mode extension groups and file types
/? – Help text
/! – Display advanced features

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Editor's Note:
As seen in the comments, some people can't download it. We think you need to be on Windows 10 Build 2004 or newer to download.

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