I accidently yesterday deleted a few files of my computer and i would like to see if i can use a program to retrieve them.

I need a free to use one that can search for specific file types if possible, must work with XP as well.

i did try one that i got of download .com but when i recovered a trial file to see if it worked altho file appeared back on my computer it wouldn't open.

so any help please

thanks

 

You could try Recuva - it's free. It will search through to find recently deleted files and see whether they can be recovered.

Chris

 

UBCD for Windows

runs in Barts PE

would need to burn the image to cd then boot off the CD

Hiren's BootCD 9.3 - www.hiren.info

another one to look at

 

ok downloaded this program and run it-it found what i think is the right files so i clicked to restore them which it did-but when i then click on them to open them to view them-it just says no preview available or wrong file format-regardless of what pic viewer i use.

anymore help please?

 

Recuva makes an estimate of the chance and quality of the recovered file - what did it say? Have you tried just renaming the file to .bmp or .jpg just to see if it will open?

 

it seems to have recovered them as i can see a file size of say 66kb when i click on properties of file-but when i click to open-it just says preview not available-when i try say adobe to open them it just wont and says "could not open document because an unknown or invalid JPEG marker type is found"

 

I just tried that program. By god its fast at searching a partition. I've never seen a recovery program work so quickly

I'm not sure if its better than what I have already, but I am certainly going to try it.

 

1) Hmmm, just did a test. Copied a file called "rcsetup.exe" from partition c: to d:

Once it was on partition d:, I deleted it, then emptied the recycle bin. After that I used the program to try and find it....it failed Not so good atm

2) Just did another test. Created a file on my second partition called test. Deleted it, emptied recycle bin and then tried to find it. No joy. Most strange as this program finds loads of old stuff. Just nothing new that has been deleted that I may actually need