(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.

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 ...