Hey all,

Does anyone know if a smart deleted file recovery program with a
raw/header file recovery feature (i.e. without any file system
information).

I usually use Easy Recovery Pro for my file recovery needs and I've
never needed it's RAW recovery but because of a program I use that
deletes files in some way that they disappear from the file system
rather then just being unallocated I wanted to try it. Unfortunately
the file I wanted to recover was MPEG and Easy Recovery doesn't support
that. So I thought I'd try another program. I tried both R Studio by
RTT and something by Stellar Labs or Stellar Phoenix. Both had a
header/raw recovery option and both included MPEG but the STUPID thing
is that both treat it as the advanced recovery/scan the whole disk
option and do not provide an option to only scan the free space to save
time. As some of you may realise, this is kind of silly. Assuming the
file system is completely intact and the only problem is your file is
missing from the file system, there is absolutely no point scanning the
whole disk. Logically, you should use the file system information and
only scan the free space. You could scan the slack space as well if you
want I guess but that's not much use, unless you're looking for
extremely small files.

Of course, when you expect your file system may have been damaged there
is obviouslly point to do a real advanced full disc or full logical
drive scan. But clearly if not, there's little point.

Does anyone know of a such a tool written with a bit of common sense or
not?

For those of you who don't understand, if the file system is intact,
this means any files which you hope to recover can only be in the free
space. If they've been overwritten you can give up Well unless you're
willing to pay although I've never actually come across a service able
to overwritten files even though most people suggest in theory it's
possible. Supposedly the CIA etc do it as well although various people
have suggested this is false. Therefore, the home recovery user using a
header/raw file recovery program, there is no point whatsoever looking
in the used/allocated space since it'll contain other data, not the
data you're interested in. The only case AFAIK that there will be a
point when the file system is intact would be if the space is allocated
but has not been used and not blanked (normally the space will be
'blanked' when allocated) which I believe is extremely rare.

Cheers

P.S. The file isn't terribly important to me and I expect I won't be
able to recover it fully since it's very large and I haven't
defragmented for ages.

do a search on the web for restoration . it's free.

"(E-Mail Removed)" wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Does anyone know if a smart deleted file recovery program with a
> raw/header file recovery feature (i.e. without any file system
> information).
>
> I usually use Easy Recovery Pro for my file recovery needs and I've
> never needed it's RAW recovery but because of a program I use that
> deletes files in some way that they disappear from the file system
> rather then just being unallocated I wanted to try it. Unfortunately
> the file I wanted to recover was MPEG and Easy Recovery doesn't support
> that. So I thought I'd try another program. I tried both R Studio by
> RTT and something by Stellar Labs or Stellar Phoenix. Both had a
> header/raw recovery option and both included MPEG but the STUPID thing
> is that both treat it as the advanced recovery/scan the whole disk
> option and do not provide an option to only scan the free space to save
> time. As some of you may realise, this is kind of silly. Assuming the
> file system is completely intact and the only problem is your file is
> missing from the file system, there is absolutely no point scanning the
> whole disk. Logically, you should use the file system information and
> only scan the free space. You could scan the slack space as well if you
> want I guess but that's not much use, unless you're looking for
> extremely small files.
>
> Of course, when you expect your file system may have been damaged there
> is obviouslly point to do a real advanced full disc or full logical
> drive scan. But clearly if not, there's little point.
>
> Does anyone know of a such a tool written with a bit of common sense or
> not?
>
> For those of you who don't understand, if the file system is intact,
> this means any files which you hope to recover can only be in the free
> space. If they've been overwritten you can give up Well unless you're
> willing to pay although I've never actually come across a service able
> to overwritten files even though most people suggest in theory it's
> possible. Supposedly the CIA etc do it as well although various people
> have suggested this is false. Therefore, the home recovery user using a
> header/raw file recovery program, there is no point whatsoever looking
> in the used/allocated space since it'll contain other data, not the
> data you're interested in. The only case AFAIK that there will be a
> point when the file system is intact would be if the space is allocated
> but has not been used and not blanked (normally the space will be
> 'blanked' when allocated) which I believe is extremely rare.
>
> Cheers
>
> P.S. The file isn't terribly important to me and I expect I won't be
> able to recover it fully since it's very large and I haven't
> defragmented for ages.
>
>

Greetings,


The most powerful data recovery tools I've used before are Active@
Undelete and Uneraser(for pure DOS). They really never corrupted
restored files and were able to bring back literally all of the erased
info. I'm pretty sure it will be able to help you.

http://www.active-undelete.com/

http://www.uneraser.com/

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Greetings,

Yeah, right. Fscking Russian site hosting apps that are flogged by this
spammer.

Malke
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