data recovery

Griffin

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Anyone has any experience with recovering deleted files? I have accidentally deleted a folder with about 180GB worth of dvd image files (45 files total, about 4GB each) on an NTFS partition (Win XP). This was not my main hard disk, and I was careful not to write anything to the disk afterwards. Still, I only managed to recover about 40GB of data (12 files). I tried four different data recovery programs including File Scavenger (which I used) and Stellar Phoenix. But they all indicated that the other files cannot be recovered, even though I did not overwrite them. One software reported that some of those files cannot be recovered because the chain of data segments is broken. Could this happen without overwrite? I know those files were probably heavily fragmented. Anything else I could try?
 

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