Active File Recovery is a powerful data recovery tool allowing you to recover files from formatted disks or those which have already been emptied from the Recycle Bin. Version 14 comes with various improvements and faster scanning speeds.

Version: 18.0.2Active File Recovery is a data recovery tool which helps you to retrieve files from formatted disks or partitions, as well as those which have been emptied from the Recycle Bin in Windows.
License: Free To Try $29.95
Operating System: Windows
Homepage: www.file-recovery.com
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The software supports all hard disks, USB flash drives, memory cards and other external storage devices with file systems used by Windows, Macintosh or Linux. The latest edition boasts a number of welcome improvements, including significantly faster scan times thanks to the new 64-bit executable.
This allows the program to use more memory and processing power to make scans go much faster.
In addition to the dozens of file signatures which the program already supports, version 14 also adds several new ones for files of rarer types.
Files may also be sorted by various attributes, including certain internal attributes found in audio and image files.
Active File Recovery is a great choice for anyone requiring data recovery software, including both the general public and computer experts.
Version 18.0.2: New Easy Recovery Mode – simplifies lost files search and data recovery on live volumes; Added more pre-defined file signatures recognition; Ultimate package: The latest Active@ Boot Disk, Active@ LiveCD with Boot Disk Creator improvements
Version 17.0.1: Added 17 more pre-defined signatures recognition; Support for Linux/Unix XFS file system scan and recovery; Support for Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) partitioning and recovery; Added filesystem's metadata display for NTFS / FAT; Improved display for HiDPI monitors and large resolution screens;
Version 14.5.0: Added more pre-defined signatures - OpenOffice Spreadsheet *.ODS. Database *.ODB, Formula *.ODF, Graphic *.ODG and Presentation *.ODP; Improved Linux Ext2\Ext3\Ext4 file systems scanning performance; Included the latest Active@ Disk Editor 6; Active@ Boot Disk switched to WinPE 5.1 64-bit (x64) base which performs faster and optimizes RAM usage; Active@ Boot Disk now being able to boot the latest UEFI Secure Boot systems.
Version 14.1.6: Added more pre-defined signatures and improved existing signatures performance; Added option to skip sectors while scanning in case if bad sectors detected; Greatly improved recovery of just deleted files, based on NTFS Log; being able to browse disks and preview files with Active@ Disk Editor 5