I need a good and free deleted files recovery program. I tried few of the first hits on Google, but they found no deleted files. And I haven't formatted that disk for a long time. OS is Win 7.
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Generally, you're not going to find any deleted files if you install the recovery program after the files are deleted. You have to use the tool immediately after deleting the files and before installing anything. | |||
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Active File Recovery has saved me before... Not free, but also not that expensive. Good luck! | |||
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For basic undelete jobs, I tend to point people to Recuva. It's from the same company as CCleaner and Speccy. For heavy-duty recovery efforts, I recommend PhotoRec. PhotoRec is free (GPL) and can be run either from the running OS or from a LiveCD. It supports FAT, NTFS, EXT2/EXT3, and HFS+ filesystems and can recover files even if the filesystem has suffered damage. There are builds for Windows, Linux, Mac OS *BSD, SunOS, and MS-DOS. A related tool from the same developer is TestDisk, which can recover damaged partition tables and other low-level disk-related structures. The developer recommends using TestDisk to recover files from NTFS and FAT partitions since TestDisk can usually also recover the original filenames. | ||||
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