how to undelete files?
William Bryant
I've deleted my wedding photos and I need to get it back!
I was looking for a software that could find my deleted files
on my NTFS drive and it seems only StrongRecovery could
find it, but it's only demo version, does anyone else ever use it?
Is it any good? Should I buy it or should I use other software?
Regards
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William Bryant aka WilliamBryant4084 at Bryan...@lycos.com
Kathy Morgan
>
> I've deleted my wedding photos and I need to get it back!
>
> I was looking for a software that could find my deleted files
> on my NTFS drive and it seems only StrongRecovery could
> find it, but it's only demo version, does anyone else ever use it?
>
> http://www.strongrecovery.com
>
> Is it any good? Should I buy it or should I use other software?
The purpose of the demo version is so that you can try out the software
and decide if it will work well for your purpose before you pay for it.
I recommend that you download it (to a drive different from the one
you've deleted the files from) and try it. If it works well for you,
pay for the software. If it doesn't, delete the demo and check out
other file recovery software.
The Web site doesn't give any information about whether the demo has
limitations, but possibly there will be a ReadMe File with the demo that
explains about any limitations or differences between the demo version
and registered version.
There are a *lot* of file recovery programs out there, including
shareware programs. If StrongRecovery doesn't work out for you, try out
some of the others.
Word of caution: The big danger with file recovery is that you can
accidentally overwrite the very files you're trying to recover. If at
all possible, you want to protect or lock the drive that had the deleted
files and use a different drive for the recovery attempt.
When you "delete" a file from the drive, it is not really removed. What
is actually deleted is the file system reference to the file; the file
is still there but the file system no longer remembers where it is, and
the computer file system could reuse the disk space for some other file,
including cache files. If the files are on your main computer hard
drive, there is a possiblity that using email, browsing the Web, posting
to and reading Usenet articles, or downloading a recovery program could
overwrite some or all of the photos that you want to recover. Until
you've recovered the files or given up on recovering them, you want to
completely avoid using that disk for *anything.*
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Kathy