Windows Unplugged

Summary:

Microsoft releases File Recovery App to Microsoft Store

Comments:

•  Available in the Microsoft Store
• Requires Windows 10 Verision2004(Build 19041)or later
• Command line application
• Applicable to Hard disk drives, Solid State Disks(limited by TRIM), USB Thumb drives, and SD memory cards
• Supports NTFS, FAT, exFAT and ReFS file systems
• Does not support recovery on cloud storage and network file shares
• Recovers JPEG, PDF, PNG, MPEG, Office files, MP3 & MP4, ZIP files and more
• Flexible recovery command supporting target filenames, keywords, file paths or extensions
• Ease of Use – Functional app, moderate learning curve(Intermediate or Advanced User skill)
• Note: From the User Guide
• “If you want to increase your chances of recovering a file, minimize or avoid using your computer. In the Windows file system, the space used by a deleted file is marked as free space, which means the file data can still exist and be recovered. But any use of your computer can create files, which may over-write this free space at any time.”

Additional Information:

• Windows 10 File Recovery App – Link to App in the Microsoft Store
• Recover lost files on Windows 10 – Online Help User Guide(Microsoft Support Article)
• How to Recover Deleted File with Windows File Recovery App – Media Article(Windows Ten Forums)
• New Windows 10 Tool – Microsoft app helps you recover deleted or corrupted data – Media article(ZDNet)

Revisions:

June 29 2020: Initial Draft Date

June 30 2020: Original Publish Date

July 02 2020: Added User Guide Note; Added – Ease of Use comment, Re-ordered comments line items