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I'm after a free download to recover files deleted by accident.
They are NTFS file system.
I've used 'Get Data Back for FAT32' before, when a partition failed (or something), but I had to pay for it (about 8 years ago), and had to put the 'dead' hard drive in a different PC to do it, but I just want to recover some deleted NTFS files this time.
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I've used 'File Scavenger' in the past, but if I recall correctly it wasn't free. Have heard good things about Recuva, which is free and looks as though it works the same. Otherwise if its on a system that you can no longer boot from, or would prefer to work off of RAM to avoid overwriting those files... I think Ultimate Boot CD has recovery tools.
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BlakFyre wrote ...
I've used 'File Scavenger' in the past, but if I recall correctly it wasn't free. Have heard good things about Recuva, which is free and looks as though it works the same. Otherwise if its on a system that you can no longer boot from, or would prefer to work off of RAM to avoid overwriting those files... I think Ultimate Boot CD has recovery tools.
I'd have to second Recuva as a free solution, worked for me somewhat (of course not perfectly, as no recovery solution is perfect). But for a free program fine.
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Thanks for the tips.
Recuva works pretty well, but I must have already written over the files I was looking for. It did find almost 50,000 deleted image files though. The 'deep search' function recovered a lot more files than the 'quick scan' option. It seems very user friendly.
Testdisk wasn't much use for this particular application, but I can see that it would be useful in the event of a partition failure/faulty drive, etc. I wonder if I could put it on a CD and use it as a 'boot disk', or whatever the correct term is, in the event of a hard drive failure on my laptop?
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Free software for recovering deleted files?
