Stealth Drive Recovery

Stealth Drive Recovery undeletes files and recovers data from formatted, corrupted, or RAW drives on Windows. It scans raw disk sectors, reconstructs files by signature, and writes recovered files to a safe target folder.

Opening Stealth Drive Recovery

Open from Settings → Tools → Stealth Drive Recovery. The window opens with a drive selector, scan mode picker, and a results pane that fills as the scan progresses.

Run as Administrator. Drive Recovery requires raw disk access. If the elevation banner appears, close Stealth, right-click the icon, and choose Run as administrator.

Scan Modes

Quick scan. Reads the drive's filesystem journal to find recently deleted files. Fast (seconds to a few minutes) and works well right after an accidental delete.

Deep scan. Full raw-sector scan that reconstructs files from disk signatures even when the filesystem is missing or formatted. Slower (minutes to hours depending on drive size) but recovers far more.

RAW recovery. Dedicated recovery for drives that show up as RAW in Disk Management because the partition table is damaged.

Supported File Types

Drive Recovery recognizes hundreds of file signatures including:

Documents. DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, PDF, ODT, RTF, TXT
Images. JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, HEIC, RAW camera formats
Video. MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, WMV, WEBM
Audio. MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, OGG
Archives. ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ
Email. PST, OST, EML, MBOX
Code. JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, HTML, CSS, JSON

Filter the results pane by category to narrow down what you are looking for.

Preview and Recover

Preview. Click any image, document, or video result to see a thumbnail before recovering.

Recoverability indicator. Each result is tagged Excellent, Good, Partial, or Damaged so you know what to expect.

Bulk select. Check multiple files and recover them all in one click.

Safe target folder. Recovered files are written to a folder you choose, ideally on a different drive to avoid overwriting other recoverable data.

Best Practices

Stop using the drive immediately after a delete or format. Every new write reduces the chance of recovering deleted files. If the lost files are on your system drive, ideally boot to another drive or run Stealth from a USB drive while you scan.

Recover to a different physical drive than the one you are scanning
Use Quick scan first; only run Deep scan if Quick does not find what you need
Recovery odds are highest within hours of deletion; less likely after weeks of heavy use
SSDs with TRIM enabled may have already wiped deleted blocks; HDDs and external drives are more recoverable

Settings

Default recovery folder	Where recovered files land when no per-scan override is set
Scan caching	Cache scan results to disk so resuming or refining filters is instant
File signature library	Enable or disable specific file type signatures to speed up scans
Verify after recovery	Hash recovered files and verify they are not corrupt

Why Use Stealth Drive Recovery

Built in. Included with your Stealth subscription.

Local only. Recovery happens entirely on your machine. No files are uploaded anywhere.

Same window as the rest of Stealth. No separate installer, no extra account.