Recuva

•  Introducing Recuva
•  Recuva Quick Start
•  Using Recuva
•  Recuva Settings
•  Troubleshooting
•  Technical Information
•  Advanced Usage
  •  Running Recuva from a USB drive
  •  Command-line parameters
  •  Working with Recuvas INI file

Running Recuva from a USB drive

You can install Recuva to and run it from a USB drive.

Why would you use this? If you're helping a friend recover his files from his PC, or your mother needs to recover some files she's deleted from her digital camera's memory card, you can put Recuva on a USB drive and take it with you, easily.

To install Recuva to a USB drive:

1. Download Recuva if you haven't already and install it on your PC.
2. Browse to the Recuva folder (typically, C:\Program Files\Recuva) and copy its contents to a folder on your USB drive.
3. Create a dummy portable.dat file in the folder. You can do this by right-clicking a blank area in the folder, and then clicking New, and then Text Document. Replace the New Text Document.txt file name with portable.dat and then press Enter. You will be prompted to confirm the file extension change. Click Yes.

To run Recuva as a portable application, double-click the Recuva.exe file in the folder.

Note: If the portable.dat file is present in the same folder on the USB drive as Recuva.exe, Recuva will use the recuva.ini file in that folder for its settings. Otherwise, it will use its own default settings. The portable installation of Recuva will never use or modify any settings in the Windows Registry.