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    Best free undelete program?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by passive101, Aug 29, 2009.

  1. passive101

    passive101 Notebook Deity

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    I am running vista x64 and wondering what the best free undelete program is. I have a couple large files I'd like to try to recover on a drive that isn't used often.

    ETA I tried Recuva, but it didn't find them.

    Is this possibly do to the fact that that partition is encrypted and is a hidden drive? Previous versions brings up nothing.
     
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    Recuva is good
     
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    ntheo Notebook Consultant

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    I'm not sure about encrypted drive. Do you have the key to decrypt it? I think without it, even if you did recover data it would be gibberish.

    I'd give the Ultimate Boot CD a try and use the Test Disk 6.5 in it under the File System/Partitioning Tools.

    It can look at hidden partition tables, recover them and do file recovery.

    http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

    http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
     
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