Deleted Music Files By Accident!

jonny68

Ive deleted 1,300 of my music files by accident,i was playing around and tried to copy and paste them onto my newly installed hard drive,whatever happened i deleted them,i done that system restore thing but still over 1,300 of them are missing,when it prompted me to deleting for good i clicked on yes thinking they would be saved on my new hard drive but they didnt,is there any file recovery tool i can get thats not too expensive or preferably free that will recover my files..i cant believe ive been so stupid here........

Infini

If you had the professional version of Norton Antivirus you could use the unerase wizard to partially recover the files. However it should be noted that once you've deleted the files the computer will start to write over the space they were located in as it would now be regarded as free space.

aidan_walsh

If you've done any type of data writing to the disk (which you have), chances are you can pretty much kiss some of them goodbye. Other than that I can point you in the direction of http://www.runtime.org/, who have quite a nice little tool conveniently called GetDataBack.

jonny68

thanks for the tips guys but it looks as though im fcuked,i dont wanna shell out for that data recovery software unless all my files can be recovered........ :mad:

Neil_Sedaka

Give us an idea of the type of artists/bands that you lost and maybe some of us could help you out with a few replacements

jonny68

Neil_Sedaka wrote:

Give us an idea of the type of artists/bands that you lost and maybe some of us could help you out with a few replacements

God theres so many mate i can even begin to think of all them bands and DJ mixes ive lost..noooooooooooooooooo..ill have to start leaving soulseek on all day and nite..thanks though for your consideration........

greglo23

try this http://www.all-freeware.com/gu4.htm this will also rescue files from media cards.

Padraig Mor

jonny68 wrote:

thanks for the tips guys but it looks as though im fcuked,i dont wanna shell out for that data recovery software unless all my files can be recovered........ :mad:

The trial version of GetDataBack will let you check out all the files it recovers before paying for the full version to be able to save them. Have used it recently and found it excellent.

edit by Khannie: Removed warez promotion. Don't promote warez please.

Khannie

Do a web search for microsoft's "undelete" (think that's the name). Free but slow. Used it in college loads of times.

When you delete files, it just removes the first letter of the filename and marks the data section on the drive F.A.T. as writeable. If you don't write too much to your hdd between now and recovery attempt you should be able to get most of your files back.

KdjaCL

www.ontrack.com

Easy Recovery pro (reqs a 2nd HD) but works nearly 100% of the time.


How much did you love your Mp3s €129.99 worth?


Free ones dont work all the time the one above has never failed me when other have deleted stuff or formatted HDs.


kdjac

Capt'n Midnight

rest2514 good but only one file/folder at a time, if they were all in a folder , "happy days" restores by copying to another drive though so you need free space somewhere else

undelete IIRC doesn't work on NTFS - if you have fat 32 then worth a shot

don't write anything to the disk if possible including downloads as they will overrite the files - don't run scandisk or defrag or game over

Khannie

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

undelete IIRC doesn't work on NTFS - if you have fat 32 then worth a shot

roffles.

Shows how long it is since I was in college

IANOC

should have used ghost backup mate

its a brilliant program that splits your HD into partitions.
then you can make a ghost image file of your main partition (side of your HD that has all your important files) and saves the image on the small partition you have created
and if you delete anything or cause your pc to not start up at all you just pop in a floppy a start up and the program puts your pc back to the same as the date you made the backup
must have for tweakers and newbies

http://www.linwei.com.tw/en/ghost.htm

sceptre

IANOC wrote:

saves the image on the small partition you have created

Wouldn't work well for mp3s as they're compressed already. The "small partition" would need to be pretty much the same size as the original. It'd still be backed up but an external backup solution would be recommended in this case. 1300 (3-4 minute at say 192kps) mp3s would comfortably fit on 2 DVDs