Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery

If you ever desperately go from folder to folder in an attempt to find one or more files, with no search utility unable to help either, chances are you accidentally removed them. Luckily, there are various specialized applications like Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery which scan fixed and removable drives to recover your files.

Scan fixed or removable drives

The application is capable of targeting hard disk drives which are either fixed or removable, as well as under file systems like FAT and NTFS. However, you need to target an entire volume, because there’s no possibility to select a custom location to narrow down results, or save some time on scanning.
The selection window lets you pick a specific drive, as well as a volume if there are more. In addition, the application can look for removed partitions in case the drive of interest doesn’t show up on the list. Be sure to plug in any USB devices you want to scan before running the application.

Multiple scan methods, and quick recovery

You can either initiate a quick scan if files were recently removed, or initiate the turbo scan for a thorough sweep of the target drive. It can take a bit of time for the second method to finish, but results are shown in real time, with the possibility to stop if you already found the file of interest.
With the scan process complete, the navigation pane becomes filled with a tree view of all folders, and a bigger pane with more details related to time, ID, and size. The process log is also shown, and there’s an option to export it for thorough analysis.
In case you don’t want to spend too much time to find the file of interest, there’s a built-in search tool to help you out. Multiple selection allows you to pick more than one file or folder from the list, while recovery only asks for a location to save files.

To sum it up

All things considered, we come to the conclusion that Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery manages to live up to expectations, coming with an intuitive set of tools with which to scan fixed or removable drives in an attempt to recover lost data. Two scan methods can be used for either a quick or thorough sweep, while recovery itself takes a little while.