Deleted music folder..hmm idiot

Macca · 11 Dec 2006 at 21:20

Ok, i'm clearing everything off this computer and backing it up onto disc. Now some how i've managed to delete the wrong folder with ALL my music. Basically i have system restore turned off does this = me screwed?

I luckily have another backup but will lose so much of it. Is their anyway to get this folder back or am i screwed as mentioned :mad:

M0KUJ1N · 11 Dec 2006 at 21:23

1. Stop using your computer now- the more disk activity the higher the likelihood of you over-writing your data is.

2. Find a donor computer and put your hard disk as a slave drive in it.

3. Run a recovery program such as GetdataBack or FreeUndelete to attempt to get your data back.

Good luck

Energize · 11 Dec 2006 at 21:23

You can use recovery programs like unerasor to retrieve it.

n3vrmind · 11 Dec 2006 at 21:46

Side note: system restore wouldnt have saved your tunes for you!

id recommend Restorer 2000 Pro, but it isnt free

Macca · 11 Dec 2006 at 22:49

I feel like an idiot

BUT i saved it all and i have all my music back

Thanks.

Tony Williams · 11 Dec 2006 at 23:03

System Restore doesn't save FILES only SETTING, if it did save files the restore points would be huge. Undeleting them mightn't work out since some of the data could be corrupt.

Personally I would re-rip it from your CD Collection or re-download it all.

-edit-

Sorry I did not read that you fixed it.

Macca · 11 Dec 2006 at 23:05

This thread can be closed now, yeah i realised what i said about system restore, it's only the windows files and settings.

toy_soldier · 12 Dec 2006 at 10:00

So out of interest how did you get it back?

bledd · 12 Dec 2006 at 11:17

File Scavenger 3 is amazing for getting things back like this
also "undelete" by roadkil is good (and free)
also http://www.undelete-plus.com/

best solution is to use a non admin account and give yourself read-only access to your music folder, then when you need to add more music to it, use fast user switching (windows + L) login as admin and place the music there

Macca · 12 Dec 2006 at 16:11

I got a spare IDE hard drive i had that had windows installed, put it in and got a program got active file recovery which worked great.

I ended up losing no songs, initially i thought i lost three, but i never even though it said it had an error reading the songs from the hard drive.

HighlandeR · 12 Dec 2006 at 20:30

bledd. said:
File Scavenger 3 is amazing for getting things back like this
also "undelete" by roadkil is good (and free)
also http://www.undelete-plus.com/

best solution is to use a non admin account and give yourself read-only access to your music folder, then when you need to add more music to it, use fast user switching (windows + L) login as admin and place the music there

thx will give them a try, I prefer Recovery my files/its fast and nice and highly selective when customers want there lost pictures back usualy I can just select JPG format and off it scans usualy takes only 1-3 hrs then/

The amount of Funeral/Wedding and holiday pictures ive recovered...