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Posted by jimmy-cleveland on March 13, 2014 at 3:13 amI was cleaning off some old files, and I may have accidntly deleted some old documents that I might not should have.
Nothing earth shattering, or anything that I cannot live without.
Is there a good file recovery program out there that you have had some success with?
Thanks in advance,
Jimmymike-marks replied 3 years, 9 months ago 9 Members · 8 Replies- 8 Replies
This worked good for me.
Check the Recycle Bin , they may be there still.
A very good set of tools can be found at http://www.piriform.com (http://www.piriform.com/products)
They have a Recuva tool that recovers deleted files. The important thing to remember is that when you accidentally delete a file, stop working so that you do not overwrite any of the the sections on the hard drive where the deleted file(s) are stored.
Had the same thing happen to me, in that I deleted some files and used the free tool for recovery. It saved me a lot of work and I ended up buying the program. CCleaner is another tool you can’t live without.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this site and it’s products.
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A few months ago I suffered from a problem similar to the one everyone mentions. They’re organizing some files, but I accidentally deleted some photos from my sister’s wedding. I only mention that I’m a photographer, so my sister asked me to take care of the photo section.
The section came out perfect, but when I was organizing the photos. I didn’t want to go through the disaster of deleting part of the photos.
But luckily, looking for ways to do it, I found this one as a tool on this website https://downloadsrecuva.com/. Which helped me to recover them, remember that I was lucky not to react late. I didn’t know that you can recover things already deleted and I learned that files are never deleted. ????
CCleaner is a great free product if you disable the now inbuilt adware. The file recovery software I cant speak for. Not sure how much NTFSrecover is, but I have used it numerous times… for ahem free.. im sure if it’s less than 100 its worth it. I have written to a 1TB drive, almost filled it, and pulled things from the previous user. Other than that there are Linux boot from USB objects that could function if your capable of reading a few forums
As mentioned by ComerPEPLS, stopping what you are doing is the key.
Your files are basically stored in a storeroom. Your operating system doesn’t show you what is in the storeroom. Your OS looks into the room and makes a note of everything that is in there. This is what it shows you. Think of it as being a list (index) pinned to the front of the storeroom door. When you delete a file, you are only deleting the file form the list on the door. The file is still in the storeroom, and will remain there until your OS puts something else in the storeroom. Recovery software quite simply looks into the storeroom and creates a new list for you.
Again, don’t do anything to change the contents of the storeroom. Don’t save any new files for example. The less you tamper with the hard drive the better your chances are of recovering the files intact. That includes defragmenting the drive. Don’t do it. Defragmenting should only be done manually for this exact reason. If you have it switched on to run automatically then you should switch it off.
The key to not losing files is your backup system. In the cloud, onto an offsite computer via the internet, even copies to a USB hard drive/thumb drive each night stored at an employee’s house/satellite office, they all work well. Contemplate that your office burns down and make sure your offsite backup(s) are no older than a few days and you’ll be good. With an internet connection and automated backup software you can cloud store cheaply with nearly no latency.
Contrast today with the “ancient times” when hard disk storage was small and expensive so big iron server side storage was backed up overnight on Exabyte 8mm tape cassettes (5-14Gb capacity) reliably, or if in a small shop using Iomega Zip drives (150-750Mb), with the “click of death” feature looming ominously over every backup you made.
Agreed with modern desktop OSs a quick look at the recycle bin can recover files no problemo’ but if your onboard hard disk screws the pooch, although forensic software & commercial recovery efforts *may* save the day; much better is to have all your stuff regularly (instantaneously) backed up elsewhere all the time.
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