XP Recovery Tool

XP Recovery Tool is a file "undelete" and data recovery utility for Windows XP. XP Recovery Tool can recover files that have been accidentally deleted (including files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from a network drive, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down) provided that recovery is attempted before the files are permanently overwritten by new data. XP Recovery Tool supports both basic and dynamic disks, NTFS compression, alternate data streams, sparse files, Unicode filenames etc. Except in severe cases, both the file and the folder path leading to the file can be recovered.

XP Recovery Tool can also recover files from a reformatted or corrupted volume even when the volume has been deleted and its original position and size are unknown. XP Recovery Tool can scan an entire physical hard drive to look for traces of defunct volumes.

XP Recovery Tool uses advanced algorithms to handle disks with bad sectors and badly corrupted partitions. It can be installed on a hard drive or run from a portable storage device such as a memory stick, removable drive, CD or floppy disk. To run XP Recovery Tool, you must log on as a system administrator to the computer where data recovery is intended.

Files can only be restored if the disk areas allocated to the files have not been overwritten by new data. All recovered files should be validated for the integrity of the recover data.