# Microsoft's New 'Windows File Recovery' Tool Restores Deleted Data

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/microsofts-new-windows-file-recovery-tool-restores-deleted-data/94272>\
**Category:** News & Articles\
**Tags:** tools, data-recovery, windows\
**Created:** [June 28, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/microsofts-new-windows-file-recovery-tool-restores-deleted-data/94272 "2020-06-28T21:05:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aina](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/aina/32/167469_2.png) [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/microsofts-new-windows-file-recovery-tool-restores-deleted-data/94272/1 "2020-06-28T21:05:10Z")

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![image](https://onehack.st/uploads/default/original/3X/7/5/754e00c29ac0e559be7263803839f4a1a185e541.jpeg)

“Anyone familiar with how Windows and other operating systems work might know that [files aren’t actually deleted](https://hothardware.com/news/windows-10-file-recovery-tool), they’re marked to allow other data to overwrite them in the future,” points out Hot Hardware, noting it’s now led to the “quiet” launch of [a new free Microsoft tool](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-file-recovery/9n26s50ln705?activetab=pivot:overviewtab).

Slashdot reader [Mark Wilson](https://tech.slashdot.org/~wilsonmark) writes that the tool even recovers files from drives that were formatted or became corrupt:

_The command line tool can be used to [retrieve data from local hard drives as well as removable media](https://betanews.com/2020/06/27/microsoft-windows-file-recovery-app/) such as USB drives and memory cards… [F]or those who don’t mind rolling up their sleeves and getting their hands dirty, it provides a means of getting back files from NTFS, FAT, exFAT and ReFS formatted drives._

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**Author:** ![fd2013](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/fd2013/32/85616_2.png) [@fd2013](https://onehack.st/u/fd2013)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/microsofts-new-windows-file-recovery-tool-restores-deleted-data/94272/2 "2020-06-29T00:03:22Z")

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That’s 🦆 awesome 🕶

> [@Aina](#):
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> [a new free Microsoft tool](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-file-recovery/9n26s50ln705?activetab=pivot:overviewtab)

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**Author:** ![Che10](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/che10/32/45120_2.png) [@Che10](https://onehack.st/u/Che10)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 9:58am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/microsofts-new-windows-file-recovery-tool-restores-deleted-data/94272/3 "2020-06-29T09:58:28Z")

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It’s Install option is disabled in my Windows 10. Anyone knows why?