Kickass Undelete

After three months of two computers trashing themselves, endless hours of cleaning up 6 disk drives, and three days of the computer refusing to boot, that SCAN button was just the right size - nicely visible through my tears of rage. As for doing the job, if the program was a dog I would have plopped it on my lap and cuddled it. IE, Check where?.... Here you go! Ease: Duhh. Click. I want my files, not a 12 in one kitchen appliance. Don'ts needs no steenking feeetures! Design. Well, I can live without pastels. Support? WYSIWYG needs support? SUGGESTION for Everyone! Buy a couple or three reasonably good SATA SSDs, 120GB will do. Wasted Digital Greens will do the job and are super cheap. Install the drives and label them tasty, like TRASH or similar. Now test it with Kickass. Toss a crap file in there then delete it and check to make sure it is found and recovered. Now, NEVER just delete or Recycle Bin ANY FILES! Just toss them in Trash. Drag and drop. Then once every week or two review what is in there, always giving yourself a few days to discover if you screwed up and wanted to keep something. Once it gets full, use the second Trash SSD. Once it gets full and you have done several reviews, delete all the crap on the oldest one and start over with it. The trick is, these drives are never used for anything else but To_Be_Deleted. No over writes and unrecoverable files. Just a nifty little buffer between you and file oblivion.

Files are restored and show file sizes, but they are just null bytes. Tried hundreds of types from multiple drives, all null bytes.

doesn't appear to support classic FAT16, would've bump the feature's stars to 5 😉

Thank you! This is just great. It recovered files that windows file recovery could not find. Free! Easy to use!

First of all, the simplicity of the interface is really wonderful. And I must say that I really like it how KickAss undelete gives me a proper overview of all deleted files and also calculates the chance of recovery. It doesn't appear to support external/removable devices and keeps them disabled. And THAT is precisely where most changes in my file system take place and thus the greatest chance of files being deleted that should NOT be delete. And this simple fact makes this tool for me completely useless, which is really a pity for such a wonderfully set up tool that would otherwise be downright THE tool every Windows computer needs. If this feature could be implemented I'd be very very happy, and I would definitely even give it more stars. That one feature it lacks, was the most vital one of all.