How to use the free Quick Scan to recover recently deleted files

Wise Data Recovery is a free data recovery program. It can recover files (photo, word, email, txt, etc.) that have been "permanently" deleted and marked as free space by the operating system. The program can also be used to recover files deleted from USB flash drives, memory cards, or MP3 players.

If the Quick Scan doesn't recover the files, please refer to How to use Deep Scan to restore files.

It is very easy to use Quick Scan, just 3 steps to recover lost files.

Step 1: Select the drive.

When launching this program, first to be noticed is the drop-down menu. Here you can select the hard disk drive where the lost data were. Meanwhile, all the common file formats are classified into different categories in "Input Keywords" so you can also scan according to them.

Step 2: Scan selected drive.

After selecting the drive you want, Wise Data Recovery starts scanning automatically. You can also pause and stop the scanning at any time by click button Pause and Stop

Step 3: Preview files

Wise Data Recovery supports previewing almost all the common types of files, such as images, videos, audios, emails, documents and so on. You can preview the content of a selected file just need to double-click it.

Step 4: Recover selected files.

Please select the targeted files and press Recover button to recover and save them on your computer or storage device.

To sum up , Wise Data Recovery is completely safe and effective hard drive data recovery software, provides reliable data recovery solution to save all kinds of data loss scenarios.

Microsoft released a new tool - Windows File Recovery in 2020 which helps users recover lost files from PCs and laptops. If you are interested in it, please click here to learn more about How to use Windows File Recovery to restore lost files on Windows 10