A program that recovers deleted programs. Accidentally deleted the program, what should I do?

Today, very often you can meet users who, either by ignorance, or by carelessness, accidentally delete files and programs without the possibility of their recovery, and then, they say, begin to bite elbows. Let's analyze how critical this situation is, and find out what the program that restores deleted programs and files can represent.

Basic principles of information recovery

To start with, there are at least two ways to delete information in Windows operating systems:

• Placing in the "basket" and its subsequent cleaning;
• Delete, bypassing the shopping cart.

In addition, it completely wipes the information from the hard drive with its formatting.

In the first two cases, if the removal is performed without using the Recycle Bin or cleaning it, data recovery is not such a complicated procedure. The thing is that when you delete a file from the "operating system" environment on the hard disk, it is not erased. Just at the beginning of the name, the first letter changes to an unread symbol "$" (or another). Therefore, the system does not see the object in the usual sense. This is the basis of almost any program that recovers deleted files. It searches for objects on the hard disk by name with the symbol "$" at the beginning of the name.

However, this technique works only if the region or sector in which the deleted file is located has not been overwritten. In other words, the maximum possible recovery can be achieved only immediately after accidentally deleting the object. If after the removal processes of copying (moving) or saving of open documents have been made, there is absolutely no guarantee that the information to be restored is safe.

With the formatting of the disk or partition, the situation is somewhat worse. Even in the case of fast formatting, the so-called table of contents is cleared, and a search by name with the initial character becomes impossible. In such a situation, extreme measures will have to be applied, which will be discussed a little later.

The user has deleted the program: how to restore the application?

In general, a lot of problems can be associated with the restoration. Nevertheless, one of the simplest methods is the use of specialized utilities, usually called Unerase (-r) or Undelete.

Some optimizer programs also contain modules that allow you to recover lost information. When installed, they embed their own commands in the "Recycle Bin" menu and allow you to restore data in a couple of clicks.

What will be used in each particular case (a program that recovers deleted programs and files, or a specialized optimizer application module) does not play a special role. All the same, the principle is the same.

Misconceptions about restoring programs and files

Unfortunately, among users it is possible to meet the widespread opinion that the restoration of the application and the file is one and the same. Nothing like this. For example, the girl deleted the program on the computer. How to recover files, she maybe knows, the good is the Internet tips. It runs the simplest file recovery utility and ... That's where the problems begin.

It's one thing to find the right file, the other is to restore whole software packages. Note that modern programs are not a single executable EXE file, but a set that includes a huge number of additional components (the same DLLs, configuration files, etc.). Well, you will not recover every file? And if it was a game? Yes there files can be tens of thousands. Here, then, elementary knowledge on restoring the working capacity of a single software product will be useful .

The easiest way to recover data

So, let's continue to disassemble the example with the girl who deleted the program on the computer. How to restore its integrity in the simplest way? The answer is banal: use the system recovery tool, which is available in any modern "operating system".

You just need to go to the appropriate section of the "Control Panel", and after the start, specify the recovery point, preceding the removal of the software product. If there is none, you can expand the list and select the one that fits best.

But here there are minuses. The point is that after the system itself was restored, applications that were installed later than the specified point will simply be deleted. This procedure will not affect user files. But this method is also suitable for cases when the application was deleted in the programs and components section. The program that recovers remote programs, here does not work - only the "native" system utility.

But the best option is to have a pre-created backup or system image (hard disk). You can restore all the contents even with the built-in Windows tools in just a couple of minutes. Unfortunately, most users do not create such copies, considering that they occupy too much space on the hard drive. But in vain.

Programs for working with hard disks and logical partitions

Now another option: the same girl accidentally deleted the program. How to restore it, if the removal was not done through the appropriate section of the control panel, but by formatting the hard drive? Now we will discuss.

The situation, of course, is unpleasant, but there is a way out. Today, you can find quite a lot of applications called something like Unformat. Data Recovery or, as mentioned earlier, Uneraser.

Suppose the user has deleted the program. How can I restore it after formatting a disk or partition using the appropriate application? Yes, it's very simple. We start any utility, specify the formatted partition and perform the analysis. At the end of the process, the program will prompt you to save the data to another section. Accordingly, we select another volume and store the information there. The whole process is automated, and the user only needs to confirm the operations and select the place to move the information.

Which program recovers deleted files?

As for working with remote files, special utilities are enough today. The most simple free program that recovers deleted files is called Recuva.

It is, however, designed to work with multimedia content (photos, graphics, video, audio), but if you specify other content in the search conditions, the application will scan absolutely all the data and give out a corresponding list. In it everything that can be restored without problems is marked in green, yellow indicates files that you can try to restore, but there is no full guarantee, and the red color corresponds to objects that can not be restored.

Now it's a little thing. Mark the necessary files and start the recovery process. Objects will be restored to those places or folders that were before removal. Almost all utilities of this type work approximately identically. The main disadvantage is that they do not allow you to restore deleted folders.

Data recovery in mobile systems

Since mobile Android-systems today are the most common, let's see how to restore deleted programs on "Android."

In principle, the ideal option, as for desktops, is to create a backup. This is done elementary in the settings menu with the selection of the corresponding section. After that, you can restore all deleted data by clicking on the button in the same menu.

There is a remarkable auto-recovery feature, which allows you to apply all the settings and settings that were before after reinstalling the application. Very comfortably.

Alternatively, you can make the device return to the factory state. After reboot, the system will prompt you to configure a new device or restore data when you log into an existing account. The only thing you need here is an active Internet connection, because the process will be performed not from the device, but from a remote server that stores all user data, including previously installed programs, contact lists, etc. Even so, the program , Repairing programs or files, it is not required. But in fact and the truth, what for? All operations can be performed directly on the device without any connection to the computer and the use of specialized applications. This option is suitable only for working with memory cards (and that is not always).

Conclusion

Here in brief and all about the data recovery procedure. However, I think the understanding of what any program is, restoring remote programs and files, is also understandable. It remains to give only one piece of advice: do not confuse work with individual files and whole software packages. These are completely different things. Accordingly, the methods of their restoration also vary. But, in principle, in all cases, there is nothing complicated even for an unprepared user.