hello i'm wanderer001 and we all generate tons of digital data whether it be from taking pictures
to excel spreadsheets to word documents to maybe creative types like myself that are creating
youtube videos the problem with that is any one of these can be deleted you can delete files off of
them easily and then run into the problem of not being able to get them back generally you want to
apply the rule of threes where you have a local backup an off-site backup and then a cloud backup
but we don't all do that all the time myself included sometimes i only have my data saved
on one hard drive that's where wondershare recover it software can come in and help you to disclose
this is a sponsored video however i did look at wondershare's recovered software before agreeing
to do a sponsored video and i have to say i did like what i saw so i agreed to do a walk through
and look at of their data recovery software so if you like me generate lots of data
and are looking for something to get your data back should you accidentally delete it wondershare
might be what you're looking for so let's take a look doing a quick search or using
the link in the description area below you'll be easily able to find wondershare's recover
it software here you can see this is actually the free version it is available for windows
so 1087 vista if you still have that or xp also available for mac so it's cross-platform it's
great now a lot of the things that we're going to talk about for the free version also apply to the
essential version the only difference is the free version has a 100 megabyte file limit to restore
however if you're using this just to restore work files so excel word documents rich text
files things like that you should be okay with the free but again looking this over you're probably
going to want to consider upgrading so let's come down here and look at the features you've got
deleted file recovery which is standard you should be able to do that you have sd card recovery
partition recovery i've seen other softwares that don't have that so it's nice that it's in there
hard drive recovery photos recovery well for a creator such as myself this is very important
coming down recover data from all types so here you go documents laundry list photos
laundry list look right here they offer raw video formats a large selection audio again plenty ogg
that's another big file type right there email and other you've got assorted other ones that you can
restore there too we're going to come down even farther to show you kind of a quick overview of
what the software does so quick deep scan there's other software out there that takes forever
to restore or to search the drive for restore wondershares recover it very fast preview preview
is something that sets it apart and when i show you the software later you're going to understand
why because most programs will give you the file name if that this will actually give you a preview
of what that file is so if you screwed up on the file name you'll at least be able to see what it
looks like another benefit of wondershare's recover is the filter for specific file type
again other software you get a laundry list with just names and you have to scroll through to
find your actual file that you want so if it's an excel file you gotta scroll scroll scroll scroll
until you find your excel file wondershare can filter those files which is stupendous
and you can also recover data during a scan so you don't have to wait till the end so if you
found your file really quickly you can pause it and restore it perfect and as i stated before the
free version gets you a hundred megabytes of data to restore so if you have files that are larger
than that you're probably going to want to come over to the essential which is pretty much the
free version but with an unlimited data cap so you don't have to worry about if your file is a gig
which most of my video files or photography files are you can see down here you have free 60
70 and so we're going to be talking about the essentials and the free version however you can
tailor the essentials so right now this is for a year but we can come over and say taylor your
plan and if you just need this for a quick one-off you can come over here and say i only need a month
that'll be 46 however if you notice the year license is 60 because i'm rounding up the lifetime
license is 70. so for 10 more you can actually get this software for a full lifetime of use
realistically to me that's that's great that's a great value and then you have plenty of different
ways that you can pay and as usual security support money back guarantee and updates updates
are nice i'm glad that they offer software updates so with all that being said let's take a look at
the actual software itself so you get an idea of just one how quickly it can recover files but what
it also looks like when you're recovering from here we see the recover it software now this is
the essential version because i was provided a key for demonstration purposes but your free version
is going to look very similar to this i do like the way that this software lays out hard disks
and displays so if we look at them os data local drive each of them indicating how much
space is being used it will bundle all of your external drives together you can select recycle
bin desktop or select a folder what i'm going to do is i'm going to take one of those flash drives
that i had before and i'm going to plug it in and i'm doing this so that you can see that there are
only two files present on this flash drive this is a two gig flash drive so what we're going to
do now is we're going to come down you can see it has picked up the external drive and if we ever
plug something else in and it doesn't pick it up right away we can always click this refresh button
we're going to select our drive and then select start and what this is going to do you can see
already 50 percent it has found 243 files and it is scanning sectors now you can see this is just
data dumped in here which a lot of programs do the beauty of recovery is that it has file types but
you also see that it is scanning fat 16 fat32 and raw file formats all on the same drive we're going
to come over to file types because again this is where recovery really differentiates itself from
other software you have videos documents web files archives miscellaneous and no extensions
if we selected the drop down for documents you can see it is finding word documents pdf files
excel files text files data csv and it breaks these all down so if i select documents over here
on the right while it's still searching it shows me all of the word style files that it found you
can change the sorting for date modified which you can see 1980 is a little weird i think that's a
problem with that particular file but that's not a fault of the software here we have one from 2011.
up here you'll notice that there is a pause or a stop button so if we found the file that we wanted
right away we can pause this so now we can select it and then select recover if we wanted to but
what we're going to do is we're going to quickly let this finish so that you have an idea of how
quickly it can search through a two gigabyte flash drive and all the files that i had on here here we
go look it's done gives us a little bb we're done hey we found 193 files i've got it that's great
so we can select again if we come back to our documents here we can see 10 documents pdf files
it's all great if we wanted to we can select one and restore it but what we're actually going to do
is i'm going to add another external drive so we're going to do is we're going to select back
and it's warning me i do want to exit that because now i've added an sd card this is my primary video
recording card and photography card so here you can see the main drive which is just an sd card
and then a lost partition but we're going to look at the main card because what we're going
to do again we're going to come down here we're going to select start and we're going to let this
start doing its thing now this is a 64 gigabyte card so i'm not actually going to let it finish
searching through this but what we're going to do is we are going to come over to file types
and here we go it has found 304 files a thousand video files and then some documents that i've had
on here what we're going to do is we're going to select drop down and we're going to look at
the jpegs and here you can see even the jpegs because some of these are
not well none of these are in raw format but all of our jpegs are falling over under that
100 megabyte limit so if i select an image here you can see a preview of that image if we want
a larger preview we just select preview again and what it's going to do here we go it's generating
a larger image so we can determine if we want to actually restore this because
again this might be itty bitty and hard to figure out what it is so hypothetically
different image can't really see what that is so if we preview it we can make it larger and we
can see that in this case it was actually a image that i took of a warning sign when i was going out
hiking but you can also see it's previewing other images down here as well but what we're going to
do is we're going to close the bigger image and we're going to say pause because i found the image
that i want to restore i put a check mark next to it i come over to the recover button in the
lower right i select that and now i tell it where do i want this to go in my case i'm going to say
os i'm going to say user i'm going to say computer name and then i'm going to select desktop and then
select recover and because i didn't select a new folder or to create a new folder it
actually you can see over there on the right it made its own folder and if we come over to
photos jpeg here's that folder with that file and oh there we go it has restored
that image so i can use it again if i wanted to it is that simple to do
and if i wanted to look for more i can always select continue searching if i want to look at my
thousand plus video files these you can see some of these will go over that 100 megabyte limit
because well these are video files but you'll notice that it gives you the file name the file
size path and the modification date this is all useful information when you're trying to figure
out what this file is because especially with my video files i have no idea what i was filming
around this time now what i was showing you and we're just going to stop this
yes we're going to stop and it pulls together what it has at that point and back yes we're
going to go back what i have been showing you is the essential the free software that you can get
will have everything above that so everything i was showing you will operate with the free
as well instead of seeing this account you'll actually have it activate where you can create an
account and then plug in your user information and like the key so again super simple user interface
pretty much three clicks and you can restore a file that you lost as you saw there the user
interface is really easy and we all need some sort of data recovery software for those oopsy
mistakes that we might make now with wondershares recover it you can try the free version which for
the most part will get you everything unless you're actually taking very large photography
files or video files and you'll be just fine so i have been wanderer 001 if you have any questions
or comments please feel free to leave them in the area below and as always thanks for watching