Recovery Toolbox for Flash

Recovery Toolbox for Flash is a lightweight Windows application whose purpose is to help you recover lost or deleted files from removable media devices that use FAT file systems, namely FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32.
The program is able to restore data from Secure Digital Cards (SD), xD-Picture Cards, CompactFlash (type I/II) (CF cards), Sony Memory Sticks, MultiMediaCards (MMC cards), PC Cards, SmartMedia Cards, IBM MicroDrive Flash Cards, flash drives, USB drives, digital cameras, and floppy disks.

Wizard-like approach

Recovery Toolbox for Flash makes use of a wizard-like assistant for helping you set up the recovery process. This mode is suitable especially for less experienced users because they are offered step-by-step guidance.

Recovery capabilities

The application gives you the possibility to select the drive you want to restore files from and pick an output destination for saving the recovered items.
In addition, you can check out details about the source and target drive, such as disk label, drive type, FAT type, disk size, and free space.
During a scan task after lost files the utility reveals information about the number of scanned items, found directories and files, name of the last found file, as well as current operation. A progress bar helps you monitor the time spent while looking for files, but there are no estimations given about the remaining time until the end of the job.
Recovery Toolbox for Flash needs extra time to finish the process but this pretty much depends on the size of the device. It does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources so the overall performance of the computer is not affected. The tool may become unresponsive during a scan but this is only a temporary problem as it manages to bring the task to an end.
The program helps you recover only the files that are displayed in black in the main window (gray items are damaged permanently) and manually select the items you want to restore.

Final words

All things considered, Recovery Toolbox for Flash delivers a simple software solution for helping you recover lost files. The intuitive design makes it suitable for rookies and professionals alike. On the downside, you are not allowed to filter data by time, date and file extension.