Best software for recovering deleted files?

[Miramonti]

A wedding photographer friend is in a nightmare scenario...losing work from multiple weddings that haven't been processed yet. What's the best software for recovering deleted and lost files?

(old 2011 thread)

 

[lxskllr]

photorec
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

If it's a hard disk failure, image the drive while it's still working, and work on the image. Not a bad idea regardless of drive health.

 

[Ketchup]

I have only used Revo, and it works, but can take a while depending on how hard you need it to go. It really depends on the status of the drive, and the friend not doing any further writes on the drive.

 

[coffeemonster]

Recuva by piriform

 

[MustISO]

What happened to the photos or the drive they were stored on?

I use GetDataBack quite a bit and it's worked well. Definitely worth the price. The trial version can show you a report of what can be found.

Also why isn't there a backup? If this person doesn't have a good backup system they need one ASAP.

 

[Bardock]

I made the mistake of plugging in my 2tb drive into a router with usb support thinking this was as good as nas. The router corrupted priceless videos of dead pets I can't get back by turning the video files into folders of the same name. The only way I was able to get them back was Recuva. I used the free version and can't thank them enough, awesome software!

 

[Ketchup]

I made the mistake of plugging in my 2tb drive into a router with usb support thinking this was as good as nas. The router corrupted priceless videos of dead pets I can't get back by turning the video files into folders of the same name. The only way I was able to get them back was Recuva. I used the free version and can't thank them enough, awesome software!

I wouldn't take videos of animals after they died, but that's just me. Then there is always the possibility that I misread your post. At any rate, glad you were able to get back what's important to you. Always happy to see free software doing amazing things!

 

[atgul]

Recuva should help in most cases

https://www.piriform.com/recuva

 

[Bardock]

the videos are of when they were alive, I meant they are dead and I can't retake the vids

 

[yinan]

If my wedding photographer has this happen to them before they give me my pictures, I will probably have to drown them in the ocean.

 

[Miramonti]

I made the mistake of plugging in my 2tb drive into a router with usb support thinking this was as good as nas. The router corrupted priceless videos of dead pets I can't get back by turning the video files into folders of the same name. The only way I was able to get them back was Recuva. I used the free version and can't thank them enough, awesome software!

Nice. I find a great way to show appreciation when using the free version is to buy a license.

 

[Mike64]

I made the mistake of plugging in my 2tb drive into a router with usb support thinking this was as good as nas. The router corrupted priceless videos of dead pets I can't get back by turning the video files into folders of the same name. The only way I was able to get them back was Recuva. I used the free version and can't thank them enough, awesome software!

Since you were able to get them back, I don't feel like I'm throwing salt in a wound by pointing out that you "made the [second] mistake" of plugging your drive into the router. The first and even bigger mistake was not making even a single backup of those "priceless" photos... Hopefully correcting that first mistake was the very first thing you did after recovering them?

 

[master_shake_]

parted magic brought everything back on a friends hard drive he deleted the mbr on.

 

[Maridon Tier]

That always sucks, i used Recuva to recover my files on my external drive. But was kind of tricky because on win 10 i was unable to recover certain files but on win 7 it worked without a problem. Kind of weird but it's something to keep in mind.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Recuva by piriform

Ditto on recuva. I've used it several times when I've mistakenly erased something.

 

[John Connor]

I actually used Recuva's deep scan to make sure my data was gone from some USB sticks and a SD card. I used Ccleaner's free space wipe, didn't do jack! So I tried Eraser with DOD 7 passes, GONE! Recuva couldn't recuva.

 

[Mike64]

I used Ccleaner's free space wipe, didn't do jack!

Did you change the setting under "Secure Deletion" (above the "Wipe Free Space" section in the Options/Settings menu) to something other than than "Normal file deletion" before you tried to wipe that flash drive?

 

[John Connor]

These are my options and what I used on the USB sticks and SD card.

 

[Mike64]

[NVM, dupe]

 

[Mike64]

Oh, yeah, my mistake, I was thinking of the main settings screen under "Options":

but I see you did have "7 passes" set. Weird that Recuva was still able to get back your files after that, no matter what program did the overwriting. I wonder if there's an outright bug that prevents CCleaner from actually overwriting the space all 7 times or something? Did it take as you long as you'd have expected it to to overwrite the amount of space involved?

 

[John Connor]

Did it take as you long as you'd have expected it to to overwrite the amount of space involved?

Yep.

 

[Mike64]

Yep.

Strange. Very strange... One would think "seven passes is seven passes", no matter what program is doing the writing....

 

[Prova moni]

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