Urgent Help Needed Please - Data Recovery

Post by **R00k** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:01 pm

Is there a free data recovery utility that someone here has used, and can recommend?

One of my users just deleted a bunch of very important files and we need to get them back.

Thanks, any help would be much appreciated.

Post by **Cool Blue** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:03 pm

Free, I know of none.

Costly, I know of a few that work well.

I'd recommend looking at Easy Recovery Pro.

http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/

Post by **R00k** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:06 pm

Really? I'm mainly just looking for some sort of undelete utility -- the files were only deleted in the last half hour or so, and I'm sure they can be recovered by information on the file system.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:16 pm

try one of these

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:17 pm

try one of these

http://www.tucows.com/preview/368404

http://www.tucows.com/preview/354626

http://www.tucows.com/preview/258313

Post by **R00k** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:34 pm

Have either of you used any of them before?

Post by **Pauly** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:35 pm

Format c:

Post by **l0g1c** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:59 pm

*fondly remembers undelete.exe*

Not to state the obvious, but make sure to install the utility on another drive so you don't overwrite the lost data with the data recovery program.

This also might be a good time to try out the knoppix disk. I'll google and see if there's any data recovery tools that come with it.

edit: yeah, it includes ntfsprogs to undelete on an NTFS.

Post by **Survivor** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:00 pm

Tuneup 2004. Don't know if it does undelete in the 30 day trial though.

http://www.tune-up.com/

Post by **Bdw3** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:41 pm

Restoration by Brian Kato:
http://www.geocities.jp/br_kato/

It's also in Jugg's link and works pretty well. :icon14:

Post by **R00k** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:00 pm

It looks like she overwrote the data by restoring something else from the recycle bin that was in the same directory.

I've used 4 utilities, and none of them are finding what we're looking for -- they're hardly finding anything at all.

Which is strange, because when I run them on my pc, they find like 28000 files.

Post by **l0g1c** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:02 pm

R00k wrote:It looks like she overwrote the data by restoring something else from the recycle bin that was in the same directory.

I don't presume to know anything about your co-workers, but this part doesn't surprise me

Post by **Foo** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:23 pm

one of your users?

Backup tapes?

Post by **Foo** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:25 pm

riddla wrote:No tape backups? tsk tsk.

Murr. I left the thread open for ages before I replied and didn't see this :icon32:

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:28 pm

just a phone call away my work

that is, if you're not talking about your fiancee or g/f.

Post by **R00k** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:58 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:just a phone call away my work

that is, if you're not talking about your fiancee or g/f.

What do you mean?

Post by **R00k** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:59 pm

All our departments have network storage available that gets backed up every night. The problem is there are a lot of users, and even managers, who don't bother with it and keep important business data on their local drives anyway.

Looks like she's out of luck.

Post by **R00k** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:09 pm

Well, she's a nice girl, I hate to see it happen to her really.

She took over another lady's position, and that lady had been keeping these financial reports on the hard drive. She hasn't been in the position very long, and was just updating the reports.

Too bad.

Post by **Denz** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:18 pm

Pauly wrote:Format c:

:icon14: Always does wonders for computers.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 1:29 am

R00k wrote:
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:just a phone call away my work

that is, if you're not talking about your fiancee or g/f.
What do you mean?

our tapes go offsite daily, but i needed something from yesterday and beyond, i give a shout to systems recovery and we're golden.

as Riddla says, her bad for saving to the local drive.

Post by **Canidae** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:26 am

Acronis Recovery Expert..umm..looks like it does partitions not files

Post by **Dave** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 4:45 am

Once I formatted this professor's C: because the twit student we had working for us forgot to leave a note on it telling us he was still working on it. I hosed out all his outlook archives, but recovered them with Easy Recover Pro. Best $99 we ever spent.