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Cubsfan
03-11-2006, 11:38 PM
Anyone know of any good, free software that I can use to recover some deleted files? A friend of mine had his girlfriend delete all of his MP3 collection, and I'd like to get them back. I found a few that look really good, until they mention that there's a 64kb file recovery limit for the demo versions.

Anyone know of any really good free ones?
eSDee
03-12-2006, 11:28 AM
Does it really have to be free? If you can't find one that is free, I would suggest GetDataBack from Runtime software. I use it all the time and it works so well. Even off damaged drives it can pull data:

http://www.runtime.org/

It costs around $80, but like I said it just works. Recently I recovered 120 gigs of music from a hard drive that was supposedly dead.
mcs328
03-12-2006, 06:34 PM
Well until you find software to recover the files it highly recommended you don't user the hard drive the mp3's were on.
brainsmile
03-12-2006, 07:06 PM
Does it really have to be free? If you can't find one that is free, I would suggest GetDataBack from Runtime software. I use it all the time and it works so well. Even off damaged drives it can pull data:

http://www.runtime.org/

It costs around $80, but like I said it just works. Recently I recovered 120 gigs of music from a hard drive that was supposedly dead.I have that one too... works well. Let me know if you want to know more about it
zero2dash
03-14-2006, 06:57 AM
A friend of mine had his girlfriend delete all of his MP3 collection, and I'd like to get them back.

Wow I'd kill her :bonk:
I know someone else that happened to...friend broke up with the girl, she wiped his HD.


Recently I recovered 120 gigs of music from a hard drive that was supposedly dead.

Good lord :eek:
I thought my 50gig (128k) collection was impressive...either you've got a lot more songs than me or you're using a higher bitrate. Nice :)
eSDee
03-14-2006, 08:33 AM
It wasn't even mine it was a clients ;) I was thinking about swiping most of it but then didn't after I discovered it was mostly country.
mcs328
03-15-2006, 11:20 AM
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,23108,00.asp

Just read about it today along with some other spring cleaning tips here
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ttpcworld/20060309/tc_techtues_pcworld/124990&cid=1740&ncid=1729
jstreet
03-15-2006, 11:49 AM
I used R-Studio NTFS to recover 500GB of media files from a crashed RAID 0 array (external USB/FW drive). I was close to just sending the company a wad of cash with a note saying "I LOVE YOU".