Are there any truly FREE data recovery programs to recover deleted files after a system restore is performed?
My friend performed a system restore on her computer & a lot of her important files were lost. She tried a program called "UNDELETE" by Paretologic & it found the lost files, but then wanted her to pay for her to actually restore the lost files. It didn’t say anything about having to pay until that point. I’m hoping there might be some out there that are truly free & if so, which ones?
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Yup there is……
It’s Pandora recovery software but it recover deleted files only from an NTFS partition…..
U can easily find it on download.com
Try Recuva
http://www.recuva.com/
1) System Restore doesn’t delete files, but it uninstalls programs. The only ways to reinstall the programs is to reverse the system restore (restore to a date after the programs were installed) or install them again.
For recovery of just about all deleted files, uyse Photorec. It’s forensic-strngth software - used by police, government agencies, etc. And it’s free. 3 notes: 1) You can only recover to an external disk (or flash drive), since it doesn’t do an in-place recovery. 2) It recovers the files, and the file types, but not the names. You have to look at each recovered file to name it. 3) It recovers ALL files on the partition. That’s probably going to be a lot of recovered files.
Test Disk, the program it comes with, can recover deleted partitions. Even if you delete all partitions and make one huge one starting somewhere other than the beginning of the disk.
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Photorec is what you want. (Don’t worry–it recovers just about every file type, not just photos.)
Instructions here for using it:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/recovering-windows-files-with-a-ubuntu-cd-iii-deleted-files/