Magic Word Recovery Software

Fully guided wizard

Magic Word Recovery combines a high-tech recovery engine with an easy, user-friendly interface. A fully guided wizard will take you through the entire recovery process step by step. The wizard makes the recovery easily possible to anyone. The wizard allows specifying which disk contains the documents to recover, and whether to use Quick or Comprehensive analysis. Additional options are available, but can be left to their default values if desired. Two recovery methods are available: Quick Scan and Comprehensive Analysis. In Quick Scan mode Magic recovery software for Word documents works blazing fast, displaying a list of recoverable documents in a matter of seconds. The Quick mode is great if you want to recover some recently deleted documents.

If you have a formatted partition, corrupted or inaccessible hard drive or memory card, the Quick mode may not return meaningful results. If this is the case, use Comprehensive Analysis instead. The Comprehensive mode takes much longer than the Quick one, but can reliably recover documents stored on badly damaged media.

Recovers documents removed from the Recycle Bin or deleted with Shift + Del

Magic Word Recovery can easily recover documents removed from the Recycle Bin, deleted directly with Shift + Del or erased in third-party applications. What makes this possible is the fact that Windows, when deleting a file, does not actually wipe its contents. Instead, the file’s record in the file system gets marked as “deleted”. As a result, any disk space previously occupied by the deleted file becomes available for the operating system and other programs. Recovering a file is possible if one can determine which exact blocks on the hard disk were occupied by the deleted file. The Magic Word Recovery program collects this information from the file system. In Comprehensive Analysis mode, it scans the entire disk surface in order to determine the exact physical location of a deleted file.

There are certain precautions to follow. As disk space containing deleted files is available, installing, writing or saving anything onto that same disk may result in permanent loss of that content. This is why you must install Magic Word Recovery onto a separate disk or external device to conduct an efficient deleted Word file recovery process.

Thumbnail gallery and pre-recovery preview

After completing the scanning process, Magic recovery for Word files displays recoverable documents as a thumbnail gallery. Thumbnail-sized previews make navigating through documents available for recovery much easier, while making searching and recovering a particular file a matter of just a few clicks. If you’d like to see a full-size preview of a particular document, you can open the built-in viewer by simply clicking on any document from the list.

The built-in preview has no external dependencies, and requires no Microsoft Office, OpenOffice or Adobe PDF Reader to operate. The preview is fully visual, displaying the complete document or spreadsheet complete with all formatting, fonts, colors, backgrounds and embedded pictures and objects. The preview is available in both full and free versions of the product. Files in formats produced by Microsoft Word, Excel, OpenOffice as well as Adobe PDF can be previewed.

Working with drive images

To make the recovery from corrupted media even safer, Magic Word Recovery provides the ability to make a virtual snapshot of the disk being recovered. The snapshot is a complete, bit-precise image of the entire drive saved into a single file on another (healthy) drive.

By creating a virtual drive image, The Microsoft Word recovery tool reduces the number of disk access operations to an absolute minimum by reading the entire content of the disk in a single continuous read as opposed to multiple small, random access operations. All subsequent operations such as scanning, previewing and recovering files are then performed with that virtual image instead of the original drive.

This greatly increases the chance of successful recovery for badly damaged and heavily worn disks, keeping the number of disk access operations as low as possible. In addition, the snapshot can serve as a bit-precise backup of the entire disk or partition.