Hi guys.
I seem to have deleted few of my files almost a month back or so and now in urgent need of them. the files are few office files and few images- jpg mostly.
I did follow google lead to Piriform Recuva.
I just want to have a last word from experts here if you guys think this could get my files back or need i to look for some other software? I'd have preferred a free program or so.
please help. I'd appreciate it a lot.
Thanks.
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I'd start where you are thinking. Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File and Disk Recovery - Free Download
http://pcinspector.de/default.htm?Language=1
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/file-recovery/
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
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Hey Fishon..
Thanks a lot for the help. I was trying my hands on Recuva, found it to be awesomely easy to use and fine. Only problem i had there was not much support for the thumbnail preview. Like say it found some 100 of images and i had to get only one or two out..it wouldn't show me the thumbnails for that. Seems like i have to recover them all and then select my file.
also, i couldn't understand anything in their "advance mode" like i found the Ui not getting me anywhere in the directory..only option it gave me was the drives.
I shall try the other you mentioned tonight and keep you posted as well.
Thanks a lot for the kindness.
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Well, i have been trying my luck with PCinspector.but been getting stuck at step II itslef. In the step II - where i select drive to go further, it comes blank and i cant go any further. even in "physical drive" tag i cant do anything.
could you suggest where i'd be going wrong here? Please.
Please check the attached image.Attached Files:
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These TestDisk and PhotoRec are awesome tools..they brought back a lot of things..only problem was most of the images it brought me back were useless cos of the squeezed down file size..my pics were taken from a good res cameras are now like in size like 10-15 kb. they r like thumbnails ..i dont know if i m doing something wrong. but i followed the instructions.
and the folder becomes very tiring to copy ..like a 4 gb recover data took me some good one hour to move to a pen-drive ,where i could take that drive to a faster comp to check the data :|
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since the files are deleted one month ago the chances of recovering them might be slim. if the files have been overwritten by other data on the hard disk, i'm afraid it is very difficult to recover.
anyway, u never know if u dont try.
i used this tool to recover deleted files, u can choose the specific file type, say word documents, to recover. just download the free version. -
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Recuva gets my vote.
I used it before, it works well and its easy to use. -
thanks for the links btw, i shall test and let know the results by night
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it found lots of old data ..but none i was looking for
is there a way/trick which i am missing on recuva. cos i used the welcome screen n followed the instruction straight away. -
You aren't installing all this software and running it on the same disk you are trying to recover, are you?
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i installed/ran all of the softwares from the desktop only
Please tell me if the chances of recovery is still there..??? -
For these programs to work, the files must not have been written over. Since you installed programs, saved new data to the drive, it is quite possible that something was written at the location where the file was. You might be doomed if none of the programs are able to get to the files.
The only other option would be to use a data recovery service and fork a few thousands to get the data (not worth it probably). They'd have to dismantle the drive on top of that too... -
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