Let’s try to recover a recently deleted file on Windows 10 using the Windows File Recovery. It is the only mode supporting drives with file systems other than NTFS. This mode is not suitable to find small files.

Signature mode – the tool searches the disk for signatures of different file types (winfr has several built-in signatures for popular file types).

Segments are different file attributes on a disk, like name, size, type, date, etc

Segment mode is used to search different NTFS segments on a disk instead of searching the MFT table.

It is effective if file record segments (FRS) still exist on a disk

Standard mode uses an MFT table to search deleted files.

Let’s try to learn how to use Windows File Recovery on Windows 10 based on some examples. This prevents accidental overwriting of disk sectors containing deleted file blocks and your chance to recover the information will be higher.

As with any other tool able to recover deleted files, always restore the found files find to a separate target drive.

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