How do you guys recover deleted files?

[jdub12]

Is there any program that you all are familiar with that helps recover deleted files? Preferrably a program that will be installed after the deletion occured. Thanks

[Igthorn]

Restoration v2.5.14 by Brian Kato

Nice freeware app. Worked great for me when I deleted an entire hard drive by accident :p Same caveats as other undeleters; won't work if you wrote over the old data with new data, etc.

Might be hard to find, as the author's web page is gone. So here's the CRC info for the files so you can make sure you got a legit copy.

Archive CRC:
; Generated by QuickSFV v2.22 on 2004-03-02 at 02:03:01
;
; 197233 14:02.34 2002-12-04 REST2514.EXE
REST2514.EXE 8029CCD9

Files in the archive:
; Generated by QuickSFV v2.22 on 2004-03-02 at 02:04:25
;
; 6144 05:35.56 2002-03-31 DLL16.DLL
; 204849 10:20.38 2002-03-21 DLL32.DLL
; 8127 09:53.46 2002-06-04 README.txt
; 204800 09:59.58 2002-06-04 Restoration.exe
DLL16.DLL 2C0EE4E7
DLL32.DLL 28D1320A
README.txt CAC5DE9C
Restoration.exe 8DE24195

[Khaydarin]

(I know its an old thread, but I *DID* use the search button....:p )

I tried using this program, and I could not find the files that I had deleted from my recycle bin.

Any suggestions or other programs?

[freonchill]

getdataback

both NTFS and FAT32 versions for whatever you need

i wouldnt install it ON that drive - but another if you can then copy the exe over to a thumb drive and such to run the program

i would NOT install, download, or copy anything TO the drive where you deleted stuff - as it could overwrite the sectors that you want to recover


edit: and COPY / SAVE the data to another drive - rather than to the same drive... see same reason above

[digital_exhaust]

Give GetDataBack (http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm) a try, should work.

Edit... dammit...ninja'd..

[Khaydarin]

Alright....I'm trying it now. Thanks.

Right now its searching for NTFS File Systems. Do I really need to do this in order to search for a deleted file?

[freonchill]

yea - its got 5 steps
it could take time for each step
save after completing steps 3,4 (e.g. save results of step 4,5)
just in case it crashes - you wont have to waste all all the time for the scanning in each phase

there is also an option for scanning vs not scanning for deleted files - obviously scan for them this time - but when you use it to save data on a drive that the partition table info died, the drive is failing, etc -and you NEED to get data off - then you would not want to search for deleted files in that case...

[plasma]

I've used recover my files a few times with good results. just make sure you dont run the software from the drive you're recovering from, and that you don't recover the files to the drive you're recovering from. file recovery software on a flash drive, with an external hd or another internal works good