Completely Deleted Files

There are a few apps available which recover deleted files.
I used 'GetDataBack' yesterday to recover 10GBs of accidently deleted mp3s.

I found the app on Hiren's BootCD + 3 other that can recover deleted files.

The app also found files I deleted over 18 months ago, and this disk has been partitioned and formatted many times.
 
im looking and getdataback seems to not be free, am i right or is it free? if not is there any other software that qwill do this for free?

it doesnt need to be free, just a trial period will do
 
What is the time span on these programs? Say if I wanted to recover a word document I had deleted a few months ago?
 
Mulder said:
What is the time span on these programs? Say if I wanted to recover a word document I had deleted a few months ago?
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i deleted it on saturday, thought i said that in first post? its only a few documents, like 4 or so which was in 1 folder that i deleted
 
addy_010 said:
i deleted it on saturday, thought i said that in first post? its only a few documents, like 4 or so which was in 1 folder that i deleted
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Well, I meant if "I" wanted to recover a word document for a few months ago would they still work?
 
getbackdata didnt work for me, i lost about 40gig of needed stuff and it recovered it but then it cant be opened. e.g a load of pictures i lost just came up with 'image cannot be displayed' so it recovers things but there just dead files. a lot of use that is :rolleyes:
 
Mulder said:
Well, I meant if "I" wanted to recover a word document for a few months ago would they still work?
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It's impossible to say - but if you've used your computer quite a bit in that four months then it's very unlikely. When a file is deleted it's only actually overwritten when something else is written there, so the time in which it can be recovered is dependant on whether your computer is in regular use rather than the actual amount of time that's passed. If you find out that something's been deleted, the best thing to do is to stop using the computer immmediately and access the hard drive from another computer in order to minimize the risk of anything being written.
 
If it's on the same partition as Windows then don't get your hopes up. Windows writes to the hard disk so much that it probably semi or completely overwritten it. That's why those pictures don't open, if it's semi overwritten it comes up with the filename, the correct size but you might find it's mashed up with half a temporary Word document or another picture, usually a temporary internet file.

I like Easy Recovery Pro but like I said, chances are it will be gone.
 
PinkPig said:
It's impossible to say - but if you've used your computer quite a bit in that four months then it's very unlikely. When a file is deleted it's only actually overwritten when something else is written there, so the time in which it can be recovered is dependant on whether your computer is in regular use rather than the actual amount of time that's passed. If you find out that something's been deleted, the best thing to do is to stop using the computer immmediately and access the hard drive from another computer in order to minimize the risk of anything being written.
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I wasn't thinking it would be recoverable, oh well! Thanks.
 
well i couldn't seem to find the stuff with tune-up and the other one suggested i can't even seem to get it to work. I typed in the names of the file i wanted using tune-up but in about 1 second it came back with nothing, is this right, it can check the whole of the drvie in like 1 second?

just realised why that is, its becuase i have been installing and uninstalling sims2 about 10 times over the last 2 days so i guess that would be what has overwirtten the information.
 
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initially it only needs sift through an allocation table i think. Mine just found 3900+ "recoverable" files in varying conditions of "good" to "poor"... it found those in something under a second i think and took a tad longer to sort the list.

installing and uninstalling sims2 10x over would be very bad for a undelete-files scenario.
 
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