In contrast to the many data recovery scans found in competing apps, Seagate curates just two: Simple & Quick scan, which searches for recently deleted items, and Advance & Detail, which scans a ...

(Pavel Ignatov/Shutterstock) Delete a file in Windows, and you can often recover it even if it’s no longer in the Recycle Bin. Third-party data recovery tools are available, but they can be expensive.

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is releasing its own Windows File Recovery tool, designed to retrieve ...