Best way to recover deleted files?

Turtles · 14 Jan 2010 at 10:16

What's the best way to recover deleted files?

Instead of deleting some stuff from my teracopy queue I accidentally deleted it from my hdd. I had a google and there's a load of programs but which ones do you recommend? First time I've been a noob and deleted something by accident

Thanks

jbloggs · 14 Jan 2010 at 10:59

Recuva

EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard - which is being given away free at the moment

There are some others in the Recovery Software section...

File Scavenger - if you feel the need to spend some £s...

Memphis · 14 Jan 2010 at 11:31

GetDataBack FAT and GetDataBack NTFS are also fantastic programs, but do cost.

bledd · 14 Jan 2010 at 11:46

if it was a recent simple 'delete' or removed from recycle bin

recuva should sort you out

WDN · 14 Jan 2010 at 11:59

Ideally, you shouldn't boot into Windows until you have (hopefully) recovered your files, as the area of the HDD where the file is could be overwritten, making recovery MUCH harder.
I accidentally deleted all items on my Desktop (a lot of stuff) once in Ubuntu, and, for recovery, I used Photorec, a command line file recovery program. You should restart and boot from a LiveCD ASAP, nothing should be writing data to the HDD.

CooK1E · 14 Jan 2010 at 13:49

Another couple of votes for Recuva and Getbackdata. If you can, install them to a separate drive, just in case you end up writing over what you are trying to recover.