Recover deleted files

[eljainc]

Hello,

We had a recent problem where several folders containing important
information were lost. We did not delete them. I have no idea how they
were lost. Perhaps NTFS FAT corruption. Our computer is a notebook
running WinXP SP2. There are no viruses suspect here as this PC is
locked down pretty well. We have tried a couple of these Data Recovery
programs, such as GetDataBack for NTFS, Recover My Files,
SmartUndelete, etc. They report the files/folders that are lost.
However when attempting to recover them, the files are garbled and do
not contain the proper information. This is probably that new files
overwrote the old data and the FAT tables are no longer valid. Is
there any tool available that can assist in recovering these lost
folders/files?
There are probably about 1000+ images (TIF images) and a couple hundred
smaller files (binary and text). We are not interested in a data
recovery service unless it were reasonable (< $200-300) and they could
guarantee a full recovery.

Thanks for any help or comments on this.

Mike McWhinney

 

[R. McCarty]

Chances are pretty slim. One thing to consider when recovering
deleted files is to restore them to an alternate drive/partition and
not back to the original source drive.
I use a program called UnEraser. It's not freeware and I do not
use the latest version (3.0). Believe it's ~$50. However, if you've
already tried other products then it's one of those "The more you
do, the chances of success drops" .
Website is found here:
http://www.uneraser.com/undelete.htm

 

[Plato]

We had a recent problem where several folders containing important
information were lost. We did not delete them. I have no idea how they

Since your data was important than just use the backup cds you created
to get back your data. No problem.

 

[eljainc]

Since your data was important than just use the backup cds you created
to get back your data. No problem.

Plato, yes the data was important. We didn't have any backup CDs
available to utilize to restore the data. We do not know how it was
deleted nor corrupted.

Mike