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    Undelete help

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by spradhan01, Jun 2, 2009.

  1. spradhan01

    spradhan01 Notebook Virtuoso

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    I had a video presentation which I did for 3 months. Now, its almost time for it but today when I opened my pen drive, its gone. The presentation video is not in the disk. Someone might have deleted it so is there any way which I can recover those files? I know some undelete software but none of them seems to be working. I would not care even if I have to pay for the software. I need the best one as I donot have time.
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  2. McGrady

    McGrady Notebook Virtuoso

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    Hopefully they didn't format the drive. Did you try Recuva yet?
     
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    jackluo923 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Did you check your recycling bin by any chance? LOL

    There might be a shadow copy of whatever you want to recover. Just store it using the shadowcopy file.

    If that doesn't work, I recommend using a softwaqre called active unndelete which should be able to recover anything such as formatted partitions, deleted,corrupted files...etc
     
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    spradhan01 Notebook Virtuoso

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    I am trying recuva right now.
     
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    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Also try Glary undelete (there should be a link to it in the Free Windows Software stickied thread).
     
  6. Evolution

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    Goodluck with the restore :( . Personally I have never been able to reliably recover any lost files from a flash drive; I have however been able to restore deleted files from my hard drives over the years, but it has never completely worked with a flash drive.

    But for the future always remember to make backups of your work in more than one place. Flash drives are too unreliable in my view to act as the main storage repository for your important work because flash drives can get stolen or lost. I usually email myself my really important work so no matter what happens it is always there.