Oops - accidentally deleted 60GB of files!

OCdude

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What a load of crap....

I've literally just deleted 60GB of Blu-Ray Rips (from my own copies - naturally!) and I can't get any frigging software to even find them..

Although they all seem to magically find stuff that i deleted earlier on in the week :|

Really annoying, as I haven't even written any data to the disk since I accidentally deleted the files!

Can anyone suggest any decent apps? (although i'm guessing they're all going to come up with the same results really).

So far i've tried:

UnDelete
File Scavenger
 
I always use FreeUndelete. It got back most of my music when something happened to the partition. As it happens I also managed to delete 60-80GB of similar rips a couple of months ago. Unfortunately most of them were apparently corrupted but I got a couple back so I know it supports large file sizes.
 
OCdude said:
What a load of crap....

I've literally just deleted 60GB of Blu-Ray Rips (from my own copies - naturally!) and I can't get any frigging software to even find them..

Although they all seem to magically find stuff that i deleted earlier on in the week :|
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The fact that you seem to be deleting stuff randomly at such regular intervals should set alarm bells ringing - back stuff up. Prevention is better than cure!

;)
 
Ratbag said:
The fact that you seem to be deleting stuff randomly at such regular intervals should set alarm bells ringing - back stuff up. Prevention is better than cure!

;)
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I am really careful about backups etc - all my stuff is backed up onto multiple separate drives (the stuff I had previously deleted was after it had been backed up).

Just tried a few other programs - none of which seem to find the files..... so I give up :(
 
Recuva found even less (and 90% of what it did find, was unrecoverable!).

But I do like the way it tells you what the original file has been overwritten by :D
 
OCdude said:
No, can't really be bothered now - if it was valuable data, then i'd probably give it a go, but I can just re-rip my Blu-Rays...... it's just going to take ages :o
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You can't be bothered to initiate an action that would take far less time than re-ripping everything? :confused:

Did you try Undelete Plus?


If Recuva / e.t.c. is showing everything as unrecoverable, then you must have written to the drive! :p
 
try ProDiscover basic - it's a forensic image analysis program. you can set it to rip the image of the drive to another drive, then use it to seek the deleted files. it's very effective.
 
Try something here.

I just had a classic moment like when you realise your keys are in the car, you've locked it and you've just pushed the door shut and there's that split second before the door shuts and you've locked yourself out when you realise what you've done but you haven't got time to stop the door from shutting..

Currently switching my boot drive from an F1 with 300 odd GB of rips in a seperate partition, but trying to use Acronis to do it so I set up a new drive in exactly the same partition sizes. Anyway I needed to resize one of them on the new drive so I deleted the end partition to resize the one before, and just as I confirmed it noticed I was on the wrong drive :( muppet

Now attempting to recover them using iRescue, if it works I'll be happy..
 
miniyazz said:
Try something here.

I just had a classic moment like when you realise your keys are in the car, you've locked it and you've just pushed the door shut and there's that split second before the door shuts and you've locked yourself out when you realise what you've done but you haven't got time to stop the door from shutting..
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Better than that moment where you realise you're 200m away from your unlocked car with the keys still sat in it, and you've been stood there for 10 minutes.

I was back to that car so quick that I swear Usain Bolt saw me and said "Christ, that guy is FAST!"
 
Pho said:
If that fails I managed to recover a partition with about 500GB of stuff on successfully using TestKit.
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It's looking like it'll take at least another 6 hours to finish scanning the partition area. Plus I'm halfway through moving house so I'm hoping I can hibernate it and it won't break what it's doing!
I'll certainly give TestKit a try though if this fails - first time I've used it.
Ironically, this was the one time it wasn't backed up cos of space restrictions while moving stuff about.. can't believe I'm such a numpty!

Edit: Just discovered the 'suspend process' option in Resource Monitor - seems to work a treat, should mean no worries about what it's doing while I'm hibernating/waking up :)
 
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