Portable Hetman Partition Recovery v5.1 Multilingual
Hetman Partition Recovery Portable is a specialized data recovery software designed to help users restore files from a variety of storage media, even in situations where partitions have been deleted, formatted, or are inaccessible. It’s an all-in-one tool that combines several functions, including file recovery, partition recovery, and disk restoration.
Core Functionality and Features
- Comprehensive Data Recovery: The software can recover a wide range of file types, including documents (Microsoft Office and OpenDocument), images (JPEG, PNG, PSD, etc.), audio, video, and compressed archives. It can recover files that have been “permanently deleted” (using Shift+Delete or emptying the Recycle Bin), lost due to virus attacks, system crashes, power failures, or hardware faults.
- Partition and Volume Restoration: One of its key strengths is its ability to restore data from corrupted, formatted, or deleted partitions. It can find and rebuild the original logical drive structure, even if the file system is missing or completely empty. It can also fix errors in logical partition design and file systems.
- Advanced Scanning Algorithms: Hetman Partition Recovery employs a two-pronged approach to scanning:
- Fast Scan: This mode quickly searches for deleted files by examining file system records, and is ideal for straightforward recovery scenarios.
- Full Analysis (or Comprehensive Analysis): This mode uses “content-aware signature search algorithms” to perform a deep, byte-by-byte scan of the entire disk surface. This allows it to locate files by their unique signatures, even if the file system is severely damaged.
- Wide Device and File System Support: The software is compatible with a broad range of storage devices, including internal and external hard drives (IDE, ATA, SATA, SCSI), SSDs, USB flash drives, and various memory cards (SD, MicroSD, CompactFlash, etc.). It supports all popular file systems, including FAT/exFAT, NTFS/ReFS, APFS/HFS+, and various Linux file systems like Ext4/3/2.
- User-Friendly Interface and Safety: Hetman Partition Recovery is designed with a simple, step-by-step wizard that guides users through the recovery process, making it accessible even for those with limited technical knowledge. To ensure data safety, the program operates in a “read-only” mode, meaning it doesn’t write any data to the disk it’s scanning. It also offers options to save the recovered files to a different drive, burn them to a CD/DVD, create an ISO image, or upload them to an FTP server.
- Additional Tools: The program also includes features to save the results of a scan, which is useful for resuming interrupted recovery processes on large disks. It also provides a preview feature and a HEX editor for more advanced users.
Use Cases
Hetman Partition Recovery Portable is a tool of last resort for situations where backups are not available or are outdated. It is particularly useful for:
- Recovering data after accidental file deletion.
- Restoring files from a formatted or repartitioned disk.
- Extracting information from corrupted or inaccessible media.
- Retrieving data lost due to malware or virus attacks.
- Recovering files after a system crash or power outage.
- Dealing with damaged disk structures or disks that appear as “RAW” partitions.