what's some REALLY good data recovery software

Kelly Keyboard · Jan 20, 2006

i accidentally deleted a mislabelled folder which ended up having all old high school work in it

i deleted it by doing shift + delete in windows explorer

whats some good software that can recover this? (doesn't necessarily have to be free - i'd be willing to pay if there is a really good one)

thankls in advance

BTW what are the chances of getting it back (i deleted it only 5 mins ago and i havent defragged since i deleted it??)

BTW this is on a 50Gb NTFS partition in win xp sp2 on a single wd 250gb sata hdd - no raid

thank you

Albigger · Jan 20, 2006

I haven't tried it yet but some have had good luck with getdata back
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=436710

you could also search for 'data recovery' in our storage forum should give you some more info if you need.

stool · Jan 21, 2006

Did you check your Recycle Bin yet? If you just deleted it, and you haven't emptied the Recycle Bin it should still be restorable.

corruption · Jan 21, 2006

I use EasyRecovery Pro at work. No idea how much it is, but it works wonders. I had my IDE cable die on me (don't ask) and my c: drive was reported as being "unallocated" when I put it into another machine. I managed to get everything back quite easily.

Albigger · Jan 21, 2006

stool said:
Did you check your Recycle Bin yet? If you just deleted it, and you haven't emptied the Recycle Bin it should still be restorable.

when you delete with shift key then it bypasses the recycle bin. I know because that's how I delete all my stuff (never used the recycle bin really).

dfonda · Jan 21, 2006

http://www.r-undelete.com/File_Undelete_Download.shtml

Trial version will only recover up to 64 k file but at least will show your data.

Doing a restore doesn't bring back deleted files does it?

RoadWarrior · Jan 21, 2006

Installing software to recover it will probably write over the top of where it was, if windows swapfile didn't already.

dfonda · Jan 21, 2006

Installing software to recover it will probably write over the top of where it was, if windows swap file didn't already.

Thats certainly possible but I have recovered everything I have ever deleted.(If I wanted it). Its easier if you have two or more hard drives. You can install to the non C: drive.

I give it at least a 70 to 30 chance of success!

hibner · Jan 21, 2006

I use a program called Restoration. Its small , free, and always found everything for me. It is a little dated, but it has always been great for me.

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