Restore My Files : Information & Data Recovery

I’ve used 3 so far. I thought they were legit and I could get my pictures/videos back that were deleted without my consent after the laptop got reformatted. But for all three, you have to register and pay to get the whole job done. I obviously don’t want to do that. Is there a program I could down load for free, no registering or anything that will get my files back? Please, any suggestions would be a great help.

Personally I do not believe in free software as it will end up messing my computer with virus and spywares. So what I look for is cheap and good software. For recovery software, I bough one before, cost me 29 bucks but working very well, and good thing is that it’s one time payment and then it allows me to use forever. Take a look if you do not mind pay 29 bucks to get back your pictures.
http://www.asoftech.com/apr/

Anyone know of a file recovery program?

You can try this site:
http://www.diskdata-recovery.com/
There is a program i use which can recover files that have been deleted from recycle bin, have become damaged or are stored on a hard drive, CD or DVD that has developed bad sectors.
Hope this helps.

I deleted the My Documents folder by mistake and of course then emptied the Recycle Bin before I realized it I had done it…

So I used a file recovery program and was able to recover the files but several of them are bad/incomplete and won’t open.

Would another recovery program be able to recover these bad files? Or should I just be happy with what I have recovered and let it go?

Recovered files work fine only if 100% bits recovered. If some information or some data is overwritten or did not recovered from the file, it seems to be recovered but still it might not work. You can try some other recovery software but I think these might not be more helpfull.

Can anyone tell me what algorithms or methods File recovery softwares use…?
I know its possible to recover files deleted using Shift+Delete Keys… How does this done…?
Please give some references…

When you delete files using Shift/Delete for example, the data itself isn’t deleted, just the index entry that says where the data for those files is located. The space containing the deleted files is also now marked as free space so it is available to the system for any new files to be written there instead.

If and when that happens, then it becomes too late to recover your deleted files so it is very, very important to not save any new files or data to the device concerned.

It also means that until its overwritten, the data is still there to be pieced back together by a good data recovery algorithm. That’s the basics of how file recovery software works.

You can find more useful information on how to recover deleted files at http://www.GetDeletedFilesBack.com/index1.html

I want to recovery file that I had deleted in mail yahoo from recycle bin. So, count you tell me about recovery file that I had removed.

Format Recovery for EMail is powerful and free format EMail Recovery Software,it only use to recover formatted EMail files. The software can recover EMail from a damaged dbx file or deleted dbx file or re-installed windows’ drive. The mail fragment can be saved as EML file. It supports Outlook Express and Foxmail format. Even if the file name is lost by deleted or formatted, it can scan the lost EMail from the drive or hard disk.

And could you please send me a link

I’ve always had excellent results with runtime software. Its paid for itself many times over!

http://www.runtime.org/

System says I am running out of space in recovery D. Its almost completely in the red!

Just leave it as is. Don’t remove anything from that recovery partition. You shouldn’t even be storing anything to it. Your computer depends on it.

You should only delete it if you have already created a bootable DVD or USB flash drive and copied the recovery files to it. Otherwise, you will have to buy a copy from your dealer once you need to restore your operating system.

I lost (somehow completely deleted -from the recycling bin too) my 2009 photos folder. All holidays, trips, and birth of my son….gone! I downloaded some free file recovery software and ran it. It recovered about 30% of my photos. I was going to buy DT Utilities Digital Rescue Premium. Will it do a better job or are all file recovery programs the same?

It all depends on what has happened since the files were deleted.

When you delete files the data itself isn’t deleted, just the index entry that tells the system where the data for those files is located. The area containing the deleted data is also now marked as free space so it is available for any new files to be written there instead.

If and when that happens, then it is too late to recover your deleted files so it is very, very important to not save any new files or data to the device concerned.

One of the easiest ways to see if you can recover deleted files is to try some good file recovery software.

A good tip is to try the free demo version of a commercial product that will scan the device for deleted files and show you exactly what files can be recovered. At least that will show you if you can recover the deleted files or if it’s too late already. You can find more useful information on how to recover deleted files at
http://www.asoftech.com/apr/

can files be repair if I get it from the recovery.

This tool can help you to recover your files from damaged media.
http://www.softorbits.com/flash-drive-recovery

and they charge so much…

When you delete files, the computer does not actually erase the file from your hard drive, it just makes the space where that file is stored as available.

A good example is to think a drive as a large book with a table of contents that lists each page and what’s on each page. To find a file, it has to look up the file in the table of contents and then go to that page to find the file. Large files can take up multiple pages and not in order, so the table of contents tells you where to find all the parts to that file. (BTW that’s why you want to "defrag" your hard drive regularly. Defragmentation software will reorganize your hard drive storage so all the multi-part files are put together instead of fragmented out of sequence. For example, if a file is on pages 5, 10, 15 of a book, defragging will restructure it so it’s on pages 5, 6, 7.)

Now when you delete a file, you do not delete the file off those pages. It’s only deleting the table of contents entry making those pages available for a new file, but the file contents itself is still on those page until a new file writes over it.

So until that happens, undelete software can do a physical scan of the drive to look for file contents that are not listed on the table of contents and restore your file. You can get undelete software, like recuva which is even free. But they usually can only restore complete files that are intact. Other high-tech agencies have better reconstruction software that can restore partial files.