File recovery

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Henry Ysenburgh

G'day,
Deleted a folder by mistake.
Is there free program available which could recover this folder?
Thanks in advance,
 
Henry Ysenburgh said:
G'day,
Deleted a folder by mistake.
Is there free program available which could recover this folder?
Thanks in advance,
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If all that you did was delete the folder, then you should be able to
restore it from the Recycle Bin.
 
Found what I needed

Restoration Version 2.5.14 5/14/2002
[Description]
Restore files which are deleted from the recycle bin or deleted while
holding down the Shift key by mistake.

Useful application!
 
Found what I needed

Restoration Version 2.5.14 5/14/2002
[Description]
Restore files which are deleted from the recycle bin or deleted while
holding down the Shift key by mistake.

Useful application!
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As long as you haven't overwritten the space the file used to reside
in between deleting it and trying to restore it.
 
Henry said:
G'day,
Deleted a folder by mistake.
Is there free program available which could recover this folder?
Thanks in advance,
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I usually weigh in these questions . The major ones have been
mewntioned. A list of simple file undeleters is here:
http://www.s2services.com/deleted.htm

And advanced one is here:
http://www.s2services.com/fullfeaturedundeletefreeware.htm

You are looking for a program that unlike my understanding of
Restoration, can udelete whole folders. I think PC Inspecor Fil
Recovery will do this.
 
I usually weigh in these questions . The major ones have been
mewntioned. A list of simple file undeleters is here:
http://www.s2services.com/deleted.htm

And advanced one is here:
http://www.s2services.com/fullfeaturedundeletefreeware.htm

You are looking for a program that unlike my understanding of
Restoration, can udelete whole folders. I think PC Inspecor Fil
Recovery will do this.
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PC Inspector is a great program, however you need to install it and while
doing so you might overwrite the very thing you would want to restore.

In this case I would suggest a no-install file recovery program like Brian
Kato's Restoration 2.5.14; the program can be downloaded from:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

Operating systems: 98/ME/2000/XP
 
PC Inspector is a great program, however you need to install it and while
doing so you might overwrite the very thing you would want to restore.

In this case I would suggest a no-install file recovery program like Brian
Kato's Restoration 2.5.14; the program can be downloaded from:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

Operating systems: 98/ME/2000/XP
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Well, Restoration is a Win 32 executeable which must be run in
Windows, so I see little advantage. I don't see why the author
claims it can be run from a (DOS) diskette, since it can't. So the
same restrictions apply to Restoration as to PC Inspector ....
for best results download and install the app to a extra
partition containing a Windows OS and run it from there in order
to protect the main partition you are going to try recovering
files from.

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
Well, Restoration is a Win 32 executeable which must be run in
Windows, so I see little advantage. I don't see why the author
claims it can be run from a (DOS) diskette, since it can't. So the
same restrictions apply to Restoration as to PC Inspector ....
for best results download and install the app to a extra
partition containing a Windows OS and run it from there in order
to protect the main partition you are going to try recovering
files from.

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
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Hi Art!

And so is PC Inspector File revovery, Art... and it has the added
disadvantage that it needs to be installed, possibly overwriting the very
folder the OP is trying to restore.

You can put Restoration on any removable medium, like floppy, ZIP-disk,
or USB stick, and run it from there. In one aspect you are right: It
needs Windows to run.

Now, get me right: I don't question PC Inspector's capabilities (in fact
I have it installed on one of my systems... just in case ;-), but that is
not the situation the OP is dealing with; he has nothing of the kind
installed, and needs a recovery program, so the best would be (like I
wrote before) to have a non-install file recovering program, and that
brings Restoration into the picture.

I don't think this is rocket science and difficult to understand; in fact
the reasoning behind this is very simple: Don't install a program to
recover files when you need to do so; after the file recovery has taken
place, install one just in case this happens again!
 
Well, Restoration is a Win 32 executeable which must be run in
Windows, so I see little advantage. I don't see why the author
claims it can be run from a (DOS) diskette, since it can't. So the
same restrictions apply to Restoration as to PC Inspector ....
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Not really. Put the Restore executable on a floppy, USB Thumb drive,
somewhere on the network, etc., and run it from there. No need to
install anything to the hard drive you're trying to recover files
from.
 
Not really. Put the Restore executable on a floppy, USB Thumb drive,
somewhere on the network, etc., and run it from there. No need to
install anything to the hard drive you're trying to recover files
from.
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It has to be downloaded. It's too large for a floppy. You shouldn't
copy _any_ files to the drive you want to recover files from.
Therefore, you need a alternate OS on a separate partition for
a emergency d/l situation. That's what I had in mind, and that's
why it doesn't make any difference if you d/l PC Insepector or
Restoration or whatever in a emergency d/l situation.

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
It has to be downloaded. It's too large for a floppy. You shouldn't
copy _any_ files to the drive you want to recover files from.
Therefore, you need a alternate OS on a separate partition for
a emergency d/l situation. That's what I had in mind, and that's
why it doesn't make any difference if you d/l PC Insepector or
Restoration or whatever in a emergency d/l situation.

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
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Hi Art,

I don't know what the size of Restoration is that you are thinking of,
nor do I know the size of the floppies you use, but 197,233 bytes
compressed, and 413 KB uncompressed should fit on any floppy nowadays.
You even can download it to floppy and uncompress it there (and still
have room left ;-) ); therefore it does make a difference IMO.

PC-Inspector with a size around 6 MB is indeed way too big tofit on
anything but a ZIP drive, or a CDRW upon download, which also means (and
I think you point to that) that you need to install it somewhere else
before you can copy the exe to whatever medium you selected. Again: PC-
Inspector is a great program to have already installed on a system, just
in case, but it is not something I would advise to install to recover
files after they have been accidentally deleted
 
I don't know what the size of Restoration is that you are thinking of,
nor do I know the size of the floppies you use, but 197,233 bytes
compressed, and 413 KB uncompressed should fit on any floppy nowadays.
You even can download it to floppy and uncompress it there (and still
have room left ;-) ); therefore it does make a difference IMO.
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You're right! My excuse is that I was tiring when I posted after a
long day of writing code and I guess couldn't see straight :)
PC-Inspector with a size around 6 MB is indeed way too big tofit on
anything but a ZIP drive, or a CDRW upon download, which also means (and
I think you point to that) that you need to install it somewhere else
before you can copy the exe to whatever medium you selected. Again: PC-
Inspector is a great program to have already installed on a system, just
in case, but it is not something I would advise to install to recover
files after they have been accidentally deleted
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I was impressed with the speed of Restoration in finding deleted files
and folders on my main drive/partition. I just tried one undelete of a
erased file, and it worked fine. I've not looked at the others
mentioned in this thread ... other than PC Inspector (which struck me
as very slow) .... and I'm not all that interested in doing a
comparative. Actually, when I think of recovering erased files I
automatically think in terms of a DOS util that can be kept on a
bootable floppy. That would be my preference. But I don't have
a specific util in mind ... especially one that's freeware. Maybe
when I have the time and inclination/motivation I'll do some
checking around.

Thanks for the heads up and I apologize for my goofup.

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
It has to be downloaded. It's too large for a floppy. You shouldn't
copy _any_ files to the drive you want to recover files from.
Therefore, you need a alternate OS on a separate partition for
a emergency d/l situation.
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Or a thumb drive or a network connection or an external hard drive or
.... any storage medium, not the one you want to recover files on, that
has enough space. That was the only point I was making - *any*
storage medium other than the one with the deleted files.
 
Hi Art!

You're right! My excuse is that I was tiring when I posted after a
long day of writing code and I guess couldn't see straight :)
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Uhm... I know the feeling
I was impressed with the speed of Restoration in finding deleted files
and folders on my main drive/partition. I just tried one undelete of a
erased file, and it worked fine. I've not looked at the others
mentioned in this thread ... other than PC Inspector (which struck me
as very slow) .... and I'm not all that interested in doing a
comparative. Actually, when I think of recovering erased files I
automatically think in terms of a DOS util that can be kept on a
bootable floppy. That would be my preference. But I don't have
a specific util in mind ... especially one that's freeware. Maybe
when I have the time and inclination/motivation I'll do some
checking around.
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It is quite fast. I have it unzipped on a read only thumb drive, and I
can't tell you how many times it saved someone's budd (including mine
<LOL>). Oh, and if you select a folder to be undeleted, and it can be
done, it also will undelete the files in the folder... A *realy nice*
feature of the program!!!

It can be done with a DOS-hex editor, but you'd have to have quite some
knowledge on how things are stored, and how things are deleted (or
better: marked as deleted!), and I wouldn't want most computer users
being "fooling around" on a system with a hex-editor, I don't know about
you... but I see problems on the horizon said:
Thanks for the heads up and I apologize for my goofup.
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You're welcome: That is what I like about this NG, we learn from
eachother... Best things last: No apology needed, Art; it could have
happened to me just as much!
 
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