O&O MediaRecovery 11 to Recover Deleted Photo, Video, and Music Files

With O&O MediaRecovery 11, Berlin-based O&O Software GmbH releases the latest version of its solution for recovering multi-media files.

The product lets users recover deleted photos, videos, and music files from digital cameras, memory cards and USB sticks directly under Windows operating systems. Using the program is easy and intuitive thanks to a wizard which guides users step-by-step through the entire recovery process.

It can recognize and recover over 80 file types found in the most popular graphic, video, and music formats. Recovery of pictures and video files from digital cameras has been improved even further in the new version.

O&O MediaRecovery 11 is also now certified as Windows 10 compatible but can also still be used under Windows Vista, 7 and 8.

New and improved features

• Various search algorithms: O&O MediaRecovery combines various search algorithms for recovering data that can be used together or individually. As the name implies, Quick Search finds deleted files quickly and effectively when they have just been deleted. If the data loss occurred further in the past, the professional Deep Scan method will search every sector of the disk for the necessary file signatures and will even be able to reconstruct files when the disk’s entire content directory has been deleted, formatted, or even overwritten.
• File types: O&O MediaRecovery recognizes and reconstructs over 80 different graphic, video, and musical formats.
• Filter features: Search results are presented in a clear overview, thanks to filters which sort by size or time (creation/last modified/last accessed). The filters can also blend out empty directories or files for refined search results.
• Integrated data images: Data images created by O&O DiskImage are also included in the data rescue processes. To prevent a data loss through defective hardware, a forensic image can be created using the separately available O&O DiskImage. This comprehensive image also saves the (assumed) free disk space so that a full data recovery can be carried out later without touching the original hardware.

Pricing and availabity
O&O MediaRecovery 11 costs $49.95 for a single license and $89.95 for the 3-computer license. All prices include 19% VAT where applicable.

The free trial version of O&O MediaRecovery 11 will search for lost files in order to establish whether there are photo, video or music files on the disks that can be rescued using the commercial version. This 30-day limited version can be downloaded.

What to do in the event of a data loss

• After deleting the data, close all applications and – if possible, avoid saving any more data. Every time data is written, especially temporary files from internet browsing, the chances increase that the data targeted for recovery will be permanently destroyed.
• Take a minute to recap: how was the data deleted? Was it deleted ‘normally’? If so, the data is in the Recycle Bin and can be restored from there.
• If the photo, video or song was thoroughly deleted, a data recovery program such as O&O MediaRecovery is required. This software should be downloaded and installed on a different partition from the one where data needs to be recovered (for example, ‘D:’ instead of ‘C’.)