In the following article, we will present the basic operations to recover deleted data in Windows 7 with the support tool Recuva Portable. With Recuva Portable, you can store it in any convenient USB, and use it whenever needed. The tool is compact, simple, easy to use with some of the following features:
- It is possible to recover data from a formatted or damaged hard drive, in such a case it is best to use another computer to scan the problematic hard drive.
- Ability to recover deleted or lost emails.
- Recover incompletely saved documents. When you work with an office program like Word or OpenOffice, the program automatically creates some temporary files without the user knowing. Recuva has the function of recognizing these files and restoring them completely.
- For deleted files that other data recovery programs have failed to recover, you can rely on Recuva.
- The application can find any text, photo, movie, music, video or audio file.
You can download the Portable version of Recuva, unzip it and you will see the following files:

The program works well on 32 or 64 bit Windows platforms, please choose the correct one for the operating system version you use:

The Recuva Wizard window will then appear, asking what types of files you want to recover. Recuva's supported file list is extensive, including Pictures, Music, Documents, Videos, Compressed, Emails, and Other:

Next is to choose the location (File Location) to check for lost files. If you want to search on a hard drive, any partition that has been formatted or do not know exactly where those files are, you should choose the first item:

Recuva will ask the user if they want to enable Deep Scan mode, which will take more time, but in return the search ability and success rate will also be much higher:

The program starts working:

And list all found files:

Then you just need to select the correct file to find and click the Recover button. Good luck!