I need to recover deleted files on my hard drive. Could anyone recommend a program?

[shoguyver]

I accidentally deleted part of my music collection. I'd like to recover these files considering I used them on a daily basis. Does anyone have a program to recommend to help me with this?

[Ice Czar]

if they arent in the recycle bin

consider the following, anything you currently do has the potential to overwrite the space where the files are so stop any P2P aps ect that would be on the same partition

next there is a freeware ap, but you need to verify the files before doing anything further and while they may look like they are recovered they can easily be corrupted

in which case youd try to recover them again

this is where patience pays off with freeware or you get a better class of program

freeware > PC Inspector (http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm)
paidware > File Scavenger (http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm) note the very restrictive license

[Ice Czar]

bump for all the editing

if the data was on its own dedicated partition its unlikely it is in danger of being overwritten, but if its all on one partition, the OS itself could be overwritting part of it, so timelyness counts

[Sieravor]

Indeed, literally ever second counts in data recovery....well, at least every second the computer is on and running. :) The first one Ice recommended is good, never used the second one though.

[dbwillis]

You can try getdataback from runtime.org.
I used it sev years ago to get my boss whole MP3 folder back, and I used it last week to get back a folder from an OS reinstall job (person stored 20+gb's in C:\Program Files\Canon and I had only saved the Username\My Documents folder)

[Vile]

Another vote for Getdataback by Runtime software


http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=891273

[Vile]

*edit..sorry for double post...

[Alvein]

http://www.active-undelete.com

I was impressed when it could recover a "deleted, then created a new one with same name" file.

[MetalX]

You can try getdataback from runtime.org.
I used it sev years ago to get my boss whole MP3 folder back, and I used it last week to get back a folder from an OS reinstall job (person stored 20+gb's in C:\Program Files\Canon and I had only saved the Username\My Documents folder)

^^^^ This one works. I've recovered many partitions with this program, well worth the money.

[dbwillis]

--> and it shows you what it can get back, before you have to pay for it, which is nice

[Sinclair]

I've had very good luck with File Scavenger, was even able to recover all the data from an accidently deleted volume on a RAID5, with 1 missing drive as an extra difficulty for it. Paid of course, but will let you see what you can recover in the trial.

[Slacker]

Ontrack Easy Recovery. Excellent program, although definitely on the spendy side $500 for the standard edition and $95 for Lite.
http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/