Hard DiskThe Drive That Warns You Before It Dies.

NTFS

The spinning disk inside a desktop or an older laptop. It holds years of work, it wears out slowly and it usually warns you before it goes. A hard disk is also the drive where deleted files survive longest, because nothing clears them until they are written over.

Windows hard disks use NTFS. DRE Pro reads NTFS, exFAT and FAT partitions.

Scan It Free Read The Guides

Run Quick Scan First

Reads the drive's own index. Recently deleted files come back with their names and folders.

Start with a Quick Scan for anything deleted recently. Switch to a Deep Scan if the files are not in the list.

The Usual Suspects

Deleted, Then Used

Files deleted weeks ago get written over a little at a time as the computer keeps working.

Formatted Or Repartitioned

A Windows install or a wrong click in Disk Management replaces the index or the partition table.

Slow And Ageing

Sectors that take longer and longer to read, then stop reading. Health drops before files disappear.

Clicking

A repeating click or grinding is the read arm in trouble. Unplug it. Software cannot fix that.

The Tools That Help Here

Quick And Deep Scans

Quick for recent deletes with names and folders. Deep for formatted disks, sector by sector.

Lost Partitions

Finds partitions that were deleted or lost and shows the folders inside them.

Health In Percent

Reads the disk's own health report: health, temperature, power-on time, S.M.A.R.T. status.

Image A Weak Disk

Copies a failing disk to an image file once, so the scan reads the copy, not the disk.

Worth Knowing Before It Happens

Lost files on C:? Use the computer as little as possible until the scan is done.
Check Drive Health once in a while. A falling health number is the cheapest warning you will ever get and on Warning or Failing you copy first and recover second.