Undeleting files

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JimL

XP Pro, SP3, well updated.

I deleted some stuff I shouldn't have, and I've been looking for good
undelete software.

At least some of them rather than actually undeleting the files it copies
them to another place.

Does anyone know of an undelete program that does NOT require this copy
here, copy there process?

JimL
 
XP Pro, SP3, well updated.

I deleted some stuff I shouldn't have, and I've been looking for good
undelete software.

At least some of them rather than actually undeleting the files it copies
them to another place.

Does anyone know of an undelete program that does NOT require this copy
here, copy there process?

JimL
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NTFS Undelete — free, easy to use undelete software
http://ntfsundelete.com/

Yousuf Khan
 
Yousuf Khan said:
NTFS Undelete — free, easy to use undelete software
http://ntfsundelete.com/

Yousuf Khan
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Thanks, but NTFS Undelete, like every undelete program I've seen, copies
files to a folder you set up for that purpose _exactly_ what I said above
that I don't want.

I need a program that repairs the content in place, not that copies it to
some other place. I have thousands of files and copying each one isn't an
option.

JimL
 
JimL said:
Thanks, but NTFS Undelete, like every undelete program I've seen, copies
files to a folder you set up for that purpose _exactly_ what I said above
that I don't want.

I need a program that repairs the content in place, not that copies it to
some other place. I have thousands of files and copying each one isn't an
option.

JimL
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If you deleted thousands of files you shouldn't have, you probably need a
disk backup or image program. That way, you could have restored the files
you deleted, and they'd be in their original folders. Barring that solution,
you're pretty much SOL for what you want to do. I've used a number of
undelete programs over the years, and they all would save the deleted file
to a pre-assigned folder so the user could check to see if the undeleted
file was viable or not. Not all files are good afterwards, and the more a
disk is used after the deletion, the more likely the recovered file will not
be good.
IIRC, one of the best I used was Norton Undelete, but it came as part of a
suite, and was fairly expensive. It's been so long that I'm really not sure
what OS I was using at the time I had it.
 
SC Tom said:
the more a disk is used after the deletion, the more likely the recovered
file will not be good.
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SC Tom
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Thanks. Nothing has been put on the drive since the disaster - which was
made worse because the backup failed totally. This occurred on a USB
extension drive which has been disconnected since seconds after the fiasco.

JimL
 
Thanks, but NTFS Undelete, like every undelete program I've seen, copies
files to a folder you set up for that purpose _exactly_ what I said above
that I don't want.

I need a program that repairs the content in place, not that copies it to
some other place. I have thousands of files and copying each one isn't an
option.

JimL
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Uh, no, it can actually find files that are no longer in the Recycle
Bin. It's not going to find them all, especially if they have been
deleted long ago, but it'll find files outside the recycle bin for sure.

Yousuf Khan
 
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