O&O DiskRecovery can be used on all storage media supported by Windows. These include hard disks (ATA, SCSI, RAID Systems), floppy disks, and CDs. In addition, it supports removable media such as Jazz and Zip drives, memory cards (e.g. CompactFlash), as well as most digital cameras.

Data Recovery is only "locally" possible. However, you can save recovered files into a folder stored on a network drive (when you have adequate permission to access those drives). This is recommended because such a data recovery would not require any write access on your local drives. This is ideal when you are restoring multiple files in session.

Please note that O&O DiskRecovery licenses are user-bound. If you would like to install and use this software on an additional computer, please purchase an additional license.

The most important requirement for the successful recovery of a file is that no portion of the file may be overwritten with other data. However, the overall success of a data recovery depends on a number of different factors: the amount of write access to the disk that has occurred, the size of your file, how long ago you deleted it, and so on. The particular part of the disk Windows writes to when you start up a program or save a file is fairly random, so even if you deleted the file some time ago there could be a chance of recovery. The most important thing to remember is to avoid write access as soon as you realize you've deleted a file by accident. If you act immediately the chances of recovering your file are excellent. O&O DiskRecovery V4.0 also allows for partial recovery of files - even if it can't get you all 100 pages of your report, 90 or even 10 pages could be invaluable!

Don't panic! You can run O&O DiskRecovery V4.0 from CD-ROM to avoid having to install it and therefore running the risk of overwriting your file. There is also a wizard that allows you to create an emergency installation on a floppy disk, on which the DiskRecovery files fit comfortably at just over 1 MB. It is also possible to use a directory on the network for the emergency installation - please note however that the license for O&O DiskRecovery V4.0 is bound to one computer only. Please purchase additional licenses if you want to use it on another machine. 

No, you can't! O&O SafeErase is an extremely effective program for deleting and overwriting your data. O&O DiskRecovery V4.0 can't get back files that have been deliberately overwritten 35 times with scientifically recognized methods, just those that have been deleted in everyday Windows usage.

We recommend you save your data to another partition in order to avoid accidental overwriting. It is theoretically possible that a restored file can overwrite itself, making the file unreadable.

Of course - to work more effectively and quickly with O&O DiskRecovery V4.0, simply use the Filter function. Simply specify a file extension or other criteria. Only the files which fit your description will be shown.