Undelete/File recovery aplication. Which one?

[Tommy]

I hope i never need it (doing images of my partitions), but you never know. There are several 'good' recoverey/undelete applications out there. I hear a lot of good things about R-Studio (http://www.data-recovery-software.net/#features). Important seams to be the efficency of those tools. Suggestions and experiences with this or other related soft (independet of costs) ?

[Ice_Czar]

like File Scavenger (http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm) and DiskPatch (http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/DiskPatch.htm)

first recover then try to repair
they complement each other

[Tommy]

Nobody using this kind of software? ???

[lucas1985]

nope ;D
PC Inspector File Recovery (http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm)

[ASM]

I use Octane (http://www.octanesoft.com/) & Nucleus Kernel for FAT and NTFS (www.nucleustechnologies.com).

[iceni60]

hi, i think a linux livecd with TestDisk and PhotoRec should be able to recover lots of stuff. they've been mentioned a few times recently on some linux news sites. i think Knoppix has them both :)
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

i used testdisk here - http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=96021
but, i haven't used the other program. they both work with lots of filesystems though including ntfs :thumb:


http://blog.mypapit.net/2006/11/photorec-recover-files-from-corrupted-hard-disk-filesystem-with-linux.html
http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3645886
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/420
http://www.shawnhermans.com/how-recover-lost-files-after-you-accidentally-repa

[WSFuser]

GetDataBack (http://www.runtime.org/)

[The Hammer]

I have this free one on my computer but haven't tried it. http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/index.htm