If a file is deleated what would be the best way to recover it?

@accent (54)
United States
April 8, 2008 10:13pm CST
Im just woundering what kind of software is out that for recovering files that has been erased form the hard drive and are not in the recylce bin any more
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saundyl
@saundyl (9783)
• Canada
9 Apr 08
As a computer technician i have tried a few different ones. I'll reccomend File Scavenger as one to try. It isnt free but you can even recover data off of a drive windows is reading as unformatted with it. My boss prefers recovermyfiles (i dont like it because while it does recover the files....it names them all unknown file 001 unknown file 002 etc.)
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chunter
@chunter (1759)
• Singapore
9 Apr 08
There are many data recovery software out there and many of them aren't free. Check out PC Inspector - www.pcinspector.de Zero Assumption - www.z-a-recovery.com Piriform Recuva - www.recuva.com GetDataBack - www.runtime.org EasyRecovery DataRecovery - www.ontrack.com/software R-Studio File Recovery - www.data-recovery-software.net I have tried GetDataBack before and its quite good, but not free....PC Inspector isn't that great, but no harm trying since its free...
accent
@accent (54)
• United States
9 Apr 08
Thank you Chunter, These are some great finds and I will try them out.
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emiliano75
@emiliano75 (680)
• Italy
16 Apr 08
An intersting opensource (free) software for recover datas after acidental deleting or formatting is Photorec, here there is wiky abuot this software http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec I tried few month ago and after formatting i can revoer abuot 70% of datas that i believe loss!