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I need open source or paid program for recover deleted files in windows.

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You can try NTFS Undelete. It is free and open source. It recovers files directly from hard drive, and it will work even if you empty Recycle Bin.

There is also Magic Rescue. It is not an undelete in the traditional sense but very helpful if you have to recover files.

If you need to recover a specific type of file, there are tools that do a better job than the generic ones. To recover JPEGs I had good success with recoverjpeg (which runs on linux but can recover from every image).

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One more option is Recuva. I've used it successfully in the past.

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I've used recuva to save files on several occasions. Works like a charm! – pavsaund Jul 23 '09 at 7:36
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Active File Recovery has saved me before...

Not free, but also not that expensive...

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I have used R-Studio so far which is even able to piece together LVM volumes again (something which I needed at the point I bought it).

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DiskDigger is a data recovery program that is small, portable, easy to use and above all free, unlike 99% of these kinds of applications out there, try it.

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File Recovery worked for me once, but the results of trying to get files back can vary a lot! Depending on the way you deleted the files.

It worked great when I formatted the wrong hard drive during the Windows installation, but I didn't do anything with the drive after I made the mistake. So I was sure everything could be recovered. If you really have to restore something important, I'd almost say: plug the drive in another computer and use that system to scan the drive.

If you shift+delete in a Windows system, but are also doing other things at the same time I'm not so sure any of these programs can succesfully recover them. Plus note: it can take quite some time to scan your entire hard disk if it's very large! For a 500 Gb drive you can expect to let the computer run overnight...

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