On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:48:54 +0100, The Crow wrote:
> Hi.
> I wanted to try some undelete software to recover some lost files. I've
> tried the winundelete demo, and it seems very good. Can anyone
> recommend any other programmes? I was hoping for something with a fully
> functional demo, rather than the restricted one like winundelete, so
> that i can see if the recovery process actually works or not.
> Winundelete shows up a lot of stuff, but how do I know if it can recover
> them okay. So, if anyone knows of such a thing, I'm looking for some
> undelete software with a fully functional demo, so that I can try the
> whole process, including recovery. Thanks.
Presuming a Windows OS, Briggs Software (
www.briggsoft.com) makes
Directory Snoop which has successfully recovered several files for me.
Remember, though, should you accidently delete something, you must try a
recovery imediately, before the file clusters are overwritten, then
nothing short of a government forensic data search will recover it. As an
aside, when I first started experimenting with this, I "erased" a file
deliberately with PGP. Overwriting it multiple times and then tried to
recover it using Directory Snoop. It did! Since then my dabbling
discovered Eraser, which Directory Snoop has never been able to recover
data from once overwritten. They say that ANY data can be recovered even
from broken hard drives, but that seems like nonsense to me. Maybe any
data deleted in the last 48 hours of a little used machine, but data
deleted several years ago on a regularly used machine would seem to be
gone forever.
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