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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: S-99 on November 18, 2010, 01:46:39 am

Title: Good undelete tool for ntfs?
Post by: S-99 on November 18, 2010, 01:46:39 am
This will be the second time in life i'll have needed to undelete files. I'm not looking to unformat, just retrieve files that were not intended to have been deleted. Me and my clients boyfriend backed up the wrong user profile in windows.

Not that i don't know how to undelete files. I just don't know which applications are good for it.
Title: Re: Good undelete tool for ntfs?
Post by: Liberator on November 18, 2010, 01:57:35 am
I have not used this, so I can't verify it's veracity, but the other stuff that Piriform puts out is what's on the label so it should work.
Title: Re: Good undelete tool for ntfs?
Post by: S-99 on November 18, 2010, 02:32:35 am
Thx, i'll give that a try. I know ccleaner is a good piece of software. Recuva ought to be also.
Title: Re: Good undelete tool for ntfs?
Post by: Bobboau on November 18, 2010, 08:31:09 am
well, first off I hope you are not posting from the computer that you need to undelete from, as using that hard drive will cause the sectors that used to be parts of the files you want to restore to get recycled and unrecoverable, you need to take that hard drive out and put it into another computer if this **** is important.
Title: Re: Good undelete tool for ntfs?
Post by: S-99 on November 19, 2010, 03:57:35 am
It got formatted over and not used much after what had happened was discovered. But yeah, undeleting, the only disk usage that should happen is for recovering the files. I have this hard drive plugged into a different computer right now for the scan.
Recuva appears to have done it's job. Salvaging the files now.
Title: Re: Good undelete tool for ntfs?
Post by: Liberator on November 19, 2010, 04:05:23 pm
Good to hear!
Title: Re: Good undelete tool for ntfs?
Post by: S-99 on November 20, 2010, 12:32:52 am
I recovered 33gb of bull****. Most windows operating system files. I'll be going through all of the files by file type first. I'll also check out the file integrity and quality once i start sifting through all of it.