Community Newsletter: Q&A: 9/1/06 What are my chances of recovering a deleted file?

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What are my chances of recovering a deleted file?

by mc5610700 - 9/3/06 10:25 PM In reply to: 9/1/06 What are my chances of recovering a deleted file? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)

Dear all,

In my opinion recovering a deleted file depends on a lots of background factors. For example How long back it has been deleted, what is the no of files saved after deletion and the most important part is whats the size of file that you have deleted. I must say that the larger the file the lesser is the chance to recover it. But I have come across and have worked on several recovery softwares.

From preferrence respectively :-
1. Drive Rescue - its easy to use and very effective.
The limitation being unable to support todays NT filesystems.
2. Go Back - Its the most effective software if loaded prior to deletion (but there are too many software like this.)
3. Lost and found - A very good software but requires a very expertise understanding the whole process.
4. The most useful tools cd I have come across is Hiren's Boot CD. (Probably now its 8.0). you can get the tools at www.thanki.tk
I have worked with Pen drives data recovery and flash card data recovery. And believe me those are the hardest thing to recover as compared to HDD.

The bottom line is - if a file is deleted, the chances are 80% of recovery if its only a case of single and reasonable size file.

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This one cuts the mustard!

by drongo5993 - 9/4/06 1:36 AM In reply to: 9/1/06 What are my chances of recovering a deleted file? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)

I have used a piece of software called DataRescuePC.
It wasnt cheap but it has got me out of a real jam a few times now. It runs from a live CD so overwrites nothing on your hard drive. You can restore files to another hard drive either installed on the machine or an external USB drive. Bought mine from Amazon.

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Recovering even files that were overwritten.

by Larvarin - 9/4/06 4:34 AM In reply to: 9/1/06 What are my chances of recovering a deleted file? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)

My cousin once mentioned that, even if a file has already been overwritten, there is actually just another layer of files on top of it, but supposedly really good computer experts are able to separate the layers from each other (physically, I think)and recover a lot more data.

My computer once crashed completely, meaning eaten up by viruses and you couldn't start it up anymore. But fortunately my grandmother found someone to whom we could send my harddisk, and he recovered the files to a CD. (I don't know if he used the above method, but thought I'd mention it.) No idea how much that costs, though, since she payed it as a birthday present.

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