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Title: Recovering deleted files
Post by: Medic aka Rocko on March 27, 2008, 02:25:19 PM

Attention Sly computer wizards!

Can anyone recommend software (prefer free) that will let me recover some deleted files.  I un-installed some software the other day and it took a bunch of my videos along with it.  And no they weren't porn videos >:D

I looked at a couple programs, one was really expensive to actually use, and the other was free but wanted to save the recovered files to another drive (which I don't have).  I understand why it wants to do that, but its not an option with me.  If I lose some but can recover to the same drive, that's what I want.

Thanks & any help surely appreciated.

Title: Re: Recovering deleted files
Post by: SonOfKrypton on March 27, 2008, 02:44:25 PM

What are we on dude?  OS X?  Linux?  Vista?

Title: Re: Recovering deleted files
Post by: Medic aka Rocko on March 27, 2008, 03:09:24 PM

Quote from: SonOfKrypton on March 27, 2008, 02:44:25 PM

What are we on dude?  OS X?  Linux?  Vista?

Duh!  :XX Sorry about that.  Windows XP.

Title: Re: Recovering deleted files
Post by: Cam on March 27, 2008, 07:53:34 PM

I don't have any experience with it, but you could give this a shot.

http://www.aumha.org/a/recover.php

Even runs from a floppy, which is pretty cool.

Title: Re: Recovering deleted files
Post by: SonOfKrypton on March 27, 2008, 08:42:54 PM

Quote from: Cam on March 27, 2008, 07:53:34 PM

Even runs from a floppy, which is pretty cool.

Wait, wait, wait....They still make those?    :*))

Title: Re: Recovering deleted files
Post by: Cam on March 27, 2008, 08:53:20 PM

actually, I'm not even sure if they do! lol. It's been a while since I saw one.  8)

Title: Re: Recovering deleted files
Post by: Tyler on March 27, 2008, 11:33:18 PM

Medic, here's a whole list you can check out.

http://www.download.com/3120-20_4.html?tg=dl-20&qt=file%20recovery&tag=srch

Title: Re: Recovering deleted files
Post by: Medic aka Rocko on March 29, 2008, 07:54:02 PM

Thanks for the suggestions guys.  Unfortunately, I wasn't able to recover the files I wanted to, they didn't even show up on the searches, so I guess they're just gone for good. :'(

Bad thing is, a day or two before this happened, I was thinking I needed to get some CDs and make backup copies.