Good undelete software?

[K(c)offee]

Anyone know of any software that can recover deleted files? Free would be good. But I might be willing to pay a small amount. I need something that will either recover deleted files that I deleted. A large number a whole drive I did not think I needed the files on anymore. About 13 gigs. or a software that will recover files that windows felt needed to be deleted. The same 13 gigs as the other drive.


The sad story behind it.

I just got a new harddrive and did not have enough room in my pc for all my drives. So i copied over all the files from my old 13 gig harddrive to a new partition on the new one. So once I copied them over I thought I dont need the old drive so deleted it I did. Little yoda speak there sorry about that. Anyway on my next restart windows XP and Scandisk felt that the new files on the harddrive were not good enough and deleted them all. Something about being unrefrenced or something. Anyway I got to watch as scandisk deleted each and every one of them. At the time I assumed it was fixing them or something *helpful* I was wrong. So I dont know if i should blame Windows XP for writing bad files or Scandisk for removing them... either way its Microsofts fault.

[redwudz]

Sorry, I don't have any specific recommendations. I did a quick search in Google for 'Undelete computer files' and got some likely hits. Try that. Most important is Don't Use That Drive Again until you get some undelete software. Since the computer thinks the drive is empty, it will overwrite the files you want to recover.

[holistic]

I have used this program (see link) with moderate success.
http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/goto.pl?url=http%3A//hccweb1.bai.ne.jp/~hcj58401/

Also for a few $$ this is an excellent file recovery tool.
http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecovery/

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[K(c)offee]

Yeah a google search was the first thing I tried. No luck tried about 3 programs. Found one program that worked better then others but it required 99 dollers for each gig that you have recovered. Which seems a bit pricy. I think I maybe out of luck. The files I did get to recover were hopeless. Say a file was called something.avi it would open in bsplayer as a bunch of merged mp3 files. Nothing quite like a 700MB of spliced MP3s. I take this as a bad sign. And the new partition I had made for some reason now is gone. Confusing. Though it may have vanished a while ago and I had not noticed. Because well i did not touch either of the drives/partitions at all. So really paid no attention to them. Any idea how to re add the partition without touching the data on it?

Anyway thanks for the help though I have pretty well settled on the fact it is prolly gone.

[iooi]

This is a long shot...
System restore might just do it so long as you have a restore point after they were loaded on and before it decided to remove them.

I know sys Restore wastes space etc but it has got me out of a hole more than once when you delete the wrong folder or program....

[Goku]

how about norton ultilities. i use it and it works great for me.