Darren Kitchen Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Got a system that's been "whiped clean". User probably just deleted the files then emptied the recycle bin. Back in the good ol' days we had undelete. Anyone got some recommendations for windows? the cheaper the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 I've always used a program called Recover Lost Data 2005 (creative name i know) It works really well and only cost about $30. Ill post more info as soon as i can find the cd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 FreeUndelete. If anything it lives up to its name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuel Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 I use PC inspector file recovery from http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm If data is in anyway recoverable, this tool will bring it back in most cases. We use it on windows 2000/XP clients and 2000/2003 servers. It has even recovered a file or two when a partition on a server was reformated (that I never really admitted to)... It didnt recover everything, but it was enough to help me bring back files thus keeping me employed. ( I blamed it on a virus ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pseudobreed Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 I recently had a nightmare where the raid controller decided to destroy the array table (Had something to do with a corrupt Watchdog). Needless to say, the partitions were messed up, so windows wanted to format, the user formated... then wanted to know why everything was gone?! I tried everything on the internet from free to paid applications. What ended up working flawlessly was TestDisk & PhotoRec. It's built using cygwin, so it has no gui. But then again, the hardcore dont need no stinking gui. And of course, always bring the files back to another drive if possible. Not going to help much if you write over the sectors you are reading. * Edit - Just tried this on my USB drive, and it actually works unlike most of the other recovery tools I have used. Also supports XBOX drives, hmm, Im going to try that out later (Actually, it seems this thing will run on all OS's and support all file structures). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Toxie Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Just curious, anyone here have any experiance with Spinrite? I have considered buying it to have on hand at work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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