Panarchy Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 HiJust the other day, made a real idiot of myself my shift-deleting a folder that I had archived a second before. Then as it was deleting the files and folders I had selected, I opened the AES 256-bit encrypted JAR archive that I had created...Unfortunately, it gave me an error "archive corrupted". So, as you would, as quickly as my little mouse could, I pressed cancel.Already too late, some of my data was deleted. Did I mention I help shift down before pressing delete?Yeah, I know... So can someone please recommend me a tool that can recover my lost files/folder?From what I remember, it was a couple of .doc files... well those were the most important lost files anyway.I've already tried TestDisk and BadCopy Pro.Neither worked.Tried some other as well, got one to recovery the folder (which had the first letter T missing and replaced with _) and files within. The files retained there names, however the content was all unreadable :( Please help me recover my files ASAP, as I need them by Monday!Thanks in advance,Panarchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 Going back in time, to the days when the world ran only IBM desk tops and MSDOS, a certain Peter Norton had a wonderful utility that would do pretty much what you are now wanting to do. Sadly I can not remember the name of the programme ...we knew it as "Norton". (It formed the basis of Gates' piratical undelete). The files were deleted by simply wiping the first letter of the file name out of the FAT. Norton would bring up the FAT and you could then put the letter back.Some of the old prog. sites may have it, but it operated in DOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted November 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Thanks. Looked him up on Wikipedia, came across;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_UtilitiesWill have a look around for it.Thanks (and please continue to recommend programs, in case this one doesn't work!)Panarchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted November 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Ah... I found it, tried it out.It couldn't access my drive....Even tried moving the folder to the drive, still wouldn't work :(So please recommend me another program to use to try and recover my data.Thanks in advance,Panarchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Try http://www.recuva.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted November 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Okay, will do.Panarchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted November 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 No luck...Gave me a 'bad allocation' error (in the status bar)Please recommend another tool for me to try.Thanks in advance,Panarchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Why not do a Google search for yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Here you go; I found this program on a LifeHacker article on recovering lost files.Undelete PLUSIf that doesn't work there are a few other things so here is my google search My Google Search :DHope this helps. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted November 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Thanks, have tried Undelete in the past. Didn't work for me.And yes, I've tried google.Many times, thing I've tried all the programs listed on the first few pages... to no avail.Panarchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 Thanks (and please continue to recommend programs, in case this one doesn't work!)Panarchy Desert island Discs ...BBC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 OT - but priceless :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted November 22, 2008 Report Share Posted November 22, 2008 I know one place that do pretty good products. I don't have the time to go through their site to look for you but this is their "Data Recovery items" page.They may have a free-trial version of something you want then you can try that. They do pretty good products and I've tried them in the past and recommended them on, people recommend their stuff to me sometimes too, so they can be OK.http://www.oo-software.com/home/en/datarecovery/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted November 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2008 ^Thanks, I have tried that in the past, but only on my hard-disk, not on my USB.Think that it's likely it will work.I'll tell you how it goes,Panarchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted November 23, 2008 Report Share Posted November 23, 2008 If something you deleted something on your PC that was off an external memory (CD/USB Data Bar, etc..) it should still go to the same place on your hard drive, shouldn't it?I know it gets deleted in a different way though, it should be recoverable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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