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Ci2e

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Posted: Mon, 4th May 2009 15:16 Post subject: File Recovery Software	Quick Quote Quote

I have a 400GB IDE drive here that I put on a IDE Expansion card and it only registered as 137GB and I accidentally formatted the drive - so I'm curious if anyone can suggest a freeware file recovery software that doesn't have limitations - I've found so far: DiskInternals Uneraser - Trial (limitations) NTFS Undelete - Epic Fail (Finds Nothing) SoftAmbulance Partition Doctor - Looks exactly like DiskInternals Uneraser

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bushwacka

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Posted: Mon, 4th May 2009 15:30 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

there isn't really any good freeware for file recovery try rstudio

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Frant
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Posted: Mon, 4th May 2009 19:16 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Sorry, I don't know of any good freeware. GetdatabackNTFS is amazing though. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! "The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer

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Mortibus

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Posted: Mon, 4th May 2009 19:41 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

not a freeware (heh depends ) but best i tried so far EASEUS Data Recovery http://www.easeus.com/

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Newty182

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Posted: Mon, 4th May 2009 19:44 Post subject: Re: File Recovery Software

Ci2e wrote:

NTFS Undelete - Epic Fail (Finds Nothing)

Did you do a full format? I thought that doing a full format would write zeros to the whole disk and would make file recovery impossible.

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bushwacka

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Posted: Mon, 4th May 2009 19:59 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

even if you overwrite everything with zeros, files can still be recovered. that's why erasing methods like the gutmann method exist

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Newty182

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Posted: Mon, 4th May 2009 20:14 Post subject:

bushwacka wrote:

even if you overwrite everything with zeros, files can still be recovered. that's why erasing methods like the gutmann method exist Wink

I see, but looking at the Gutmann method, it seems to sugest that file recovery of a drive that has had all zeros written to it is not possible with just your average software, right? And the chances of getting all the data back without any corruption looks slim..

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moosenoodles

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Posted: Mon, 4th May 2009 20:39 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Yeah isnt whats known as a millitary wipe good and proper for a total format. http://www.speedtest.net/result/4302967033.png

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Ci2e

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Posted: Mon, 4th May 2009 22:03 Post subject:

Frant wrote:

Sorry, I don't know of any good freeware. GetdatabackNTFS is amazing though.

I have used GetdatabackNTFS once in the past, it's really lame when you have to open 1,000 folders that look like {0000-00000-00000-00000-99999} but that's what I get for being a noob...

Newty182 wrote:

Ci2e wrote:

NTFS Undelete - Epic Fail (Finds Nothing)

Did you do a full format? I thought that doing a full format would write zeros to the whole disk and would make file recovery impossible.

Yeah I did a quick format and Unerase found like over 200,000 files when I did a search on the drive - but I just came back and the software stopped responding completely...

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