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#32822 24-Apr-2009 10:33

I deleted a folder and immediately stopped using the PC to investigate undelete programs. After trying several I am annoyed at the fact all of them show that on over 300 files found they are all 0 bytes. They are in fact 100MB rar files. This is a secondard HDD.

What undelete programs to you recommend? the drive is NTFS

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#208978 24-Apr-2009 10:40

are you talking about a removed program? there are tons on google freewares and sharewares. you won't know until you try them all as I for one don't remove programs I need.

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#208980 24-Apr-2009 10:44

Nope, I don't think it's programs - a secondary drive, full of .RAR files doesn't sound like programs.

Try http://www.undelete.com/undelete/home/undelete.aspx

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#209002 24-Apr-2009 12:11

I've had good sucess with Runtime Software's GetDataBack http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

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#209050 24-Apr-2009 15:16

Try http://www.recuva.com/ I've had good success with it in the past.

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#209077 24-Apr-2009 19:33

Recuva is the best freeware recovery program I've used, and GetDataBack is the best commercial program there is.

Recuva should handle the job though if all you did is a simple delete.

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#209255 25-Apr-2009 17:18

Tried all those programs. Always 0 bytes for all 570 files in that directory. Don't know why it didn't cope with that. I will have to download all that stuff again. That was 60gigs of data. It will take me a while on 2MBit connection :(

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#209273 25-Apr-2009 18:04

How is your secondary drive connected?
Did you try the deep scan options?