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Best undelete tool for NTFS/FAT?

Are there any good free undelete tools for Windows? The kind that recover files by looking at the low level file system.

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As it's not directly programming related, this would look much better on superuser.com. As far as undelete from NTFS goes, google result #1 for "ntfs undelete" is ntfsundelete.com , which is quite good. – Piskvor Oct 12 '09 at 9:06
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There's a similar question you might be interested in: superuser.com/questions/6810/best-undelete-tool-for-ntfs-fat – alex Oct 12 '09 at 11:18
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Recuva works quite well and is free.

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This worked for us, thanks. Crucially it allowed is to navigate to where teh file had been in teh file hierarchy and see what file had been there. The file was partially overwritten but the content we were looking for was still there. – user13948 Oct 12 '09 at 17:24
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PC INSPECTOR File Recovery is one of the best :

  • Supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.
  • Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged
  • Recovers files with the original time and date stamp
  • Supports the saving of recovered files on network drives
  • Recovers files, even when a header entry is no longer available. Competition products cannot recover such files. The "Special Recovery Function" supports the following disk formats: ARJ AVI BMP CDR DOC DXF DBF XLS EXE GIF HLP HTML HTM JPG LZH MID MOV MP3 PDF PNG RTF TAR TIF WAV ZIP
  • PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery 4.x is so-called FREEWARE.

The last time I gave this advice in SU, this was the product the did the best recovery job.

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NTFS undelete as Mentioned in the comment by Piskvor works perfect.

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TestDisk is a FOSS solution.

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table)

TestDisk can

* Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
* Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
* Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
* Fix FAT tables
* Rebuild NTFS boot sector
* Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
* Fix MFT using MFT mirror
* Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock
* Undelete files from FAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
* Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.
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