Windows File Recovery is a
command-line software utility from
Microsoft to recover deleted files. It is freely available for
Windows 10 version 2004 (May 2020 Update) and later from the
Microsoft Store.
Windows File Recovery can recover files from a local
hard disk drive (HDD),
USB flash drive, or
memory card such as an
SD card.
It can work to some extent with
solid-state drives (SSD).
The program is run using the
winfr command.
It has a mode designed for
NTFS file systems, that will attempt recovery of files from a disk that is corrupted or has been formatted.
Another mode will attempt recovery of specific file types from
FAT and
exFAT (predominantly found on external devices) and
ReFS
Resilient File System (ReFS), codenamed "Protogon", is a Microsoft proprietary file system introduced with Windows Server 2012 with the intent of becoming the "next generation" file system after NTFS.
ReFS was designed to overcome problems tha ...
file systems.
See also
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Data remanence
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Data recovery
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List of data recovery software
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File History
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Trash (computing)
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Undeletion
Undeletion is a feature for restoring computer files which have been removed from a file system by file deletion. Deleted data can be recovered on many file systems, but not all file systems provide an undeletion feature. Recovering data witho ...
References
External links
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Microsoft software
Windows commands
Windows-only freeware
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