High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Recuva (pronounced "re·cov·ah") is a freeware data recovery program, developed by Piriform, and runs under Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000. It is able to recover files that have been "permanently" deleted and marked by the operating system as free space. The program can also be used to recover files deleted from USB flash drives, memory cards, or MP3 players.