Magic Data Recovery Pack

Unerases files removed from the Recycle Bin.
Recovers files removed without using of a Recycle Bin

Magic Data Recovery Pack is a perfect tool if you want to undelete a bunch of files quickly. If you removed files from the Recycle Bin, or if your computer is configured to delete files immediately, Magic Data Recovery Pack will help you get those files back by unerasing them from the disk.

The ability to undelete files is based on the way Windows handles the file deletion operation. When deleting a file, Windows will simply put a ‘deleted’ flag against the file’s record in the file system. With this flag, the disk space that was previously used by the content of the file is advertised as available – but it’s not wiped or overwritten by Windows at the time of deletion unless you’re using a TRIM-enabled SSD drive. As the file’s content is still sitting on the disk, it can be recovered from the disk before it’s overwritten with another file. Magic Data Recovery Pack allows running a fast scan of the file system, quickly locating all records belonging to recently deleted files and allowing the user to fully recover deleted files.

Features fully guided, step-by-step file recovery wizard

Magic data recovery tools are designed to be easily usable. Years of refinement led to developing a fully guided, step-by-step wizard to guide users through the entire recovery process. No matter how complex the internal mechanics are under the hood, the product’s step-by-step wizard will only ask a few simple questions, such as which disk contains the files to recover, where to save the recoverable files to, and whether you’ll be performing fast or comprehensive analysis (or both).

After answering a few simple questions and waiting till the disk scan is complete, you’ll be presented with an Explorer-like window listing all recoverable files. You’ll be able to navigate around the disk, pick multiple files or select entire folders to recover. The built-in pre-recovery preview will allow viewing recoverable files in ‘live’ mode, allowing you to pick the latest, best preserved versions of documents to recover. With this easy, step-by-step approach, our data recovery tool for PC can be easily learned and used by anyone and their dog.

Search files based on content (Content-aware analysis)

The entire family of Magic data recovery tools shares a set of sophisticated ad quick data recovery algorithms that can perform a search of recoverable information based on its content. The technology is called “content-aware analysis”, and allows not only undeleting files that were simply deleted, but also recovering files stored on formatted, corrupted, and inaccessible disks and memory cards.

Unlike legacy data recovery algorithms that analyze the file system alone, the content-aware analysis looks beyond the file system in its search for recoverable information. The technology performs analysis for all file types on every sector on the disk, analyzing raw data to detect characteristic signatures of known file types. If the beginning of a file is detected, the content-aware analysis will then analyze what appears to be a file header to calculate the file’s length. Based on this information, the file’s exact location on the disk can be derived, and the file itself can be successfully recovered even if no record about it appears in the file system. This allows recovering files from formatted partitions, corrupted, repartitioned, and inaccessible disks.

Working with drive images

To make the recovery from corrupted media even safer, the hard drive data recovery software can 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, Magic Data Recovery Pack reduces the number of disk access operations to absolute minimum by reading the entire disk’s content in a single continuous read instead of 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 the most effective data 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.