Restoring lost files AFTER deleting from recycle bin

Mike Olbinski

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I know someone who needs some program to restore deleted files...after they've been empties from the RB...

We found one that will do it, but it costs MOOLA...anyone else know a cheap method?
 

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LOL perfect timing on this thread... i would love to hear the answers
 

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Go to tucows.com and type in "undelete." There's a bunch of freeware that should work.
 

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wow this thread rules... i didnt even have to ask

pariah - free is good!
 

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Beware, it will restore EVERYTHING you've ever deleted. It takes forever but it's worth it
 

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Ryanwb said:
it does support Windows 98

:lmao:
You havent heard the good news, dear sir, I've upgraded to XP!

:sticksouttongue:
 

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I have a free one at home, I will put it up on the ftp for you guys to download when I get a chance... It is real good even on recovering partially overwritten files, in the settings if you are not careful you can even recover WAY more than you would ever want...
 

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CardFan67 said:
I in the settings if you are not careful you can even recover WAY more than you would ever want...

...all that Asian porn you deleted
 

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Ryanwb said:
...all that Asian porn you deleted

funny you should say that... It was a customers computer that I was working on and he told me that there was none... he wanted his children's pictures recovered so we determined that they were all either Jpeg or Bmp files so I set those as the parameters... It searched and searched and found and found and we were up to about 2 gigs, he was like, "what the hell is all that I did not have that many pictures"... well it recovers in program graphics like logos and such so there was a ton of that, and then it also recovered some other stuff...

We were going though and filing the pictures and then I come across this somewhat dim photo and it is a picture of a woman bent over performing some mouthy services and we both kind of laugh and I made some comment about his taste in porn... I look at the guy and he is beat red and all of the sudden wishes he was on a southwest flight... I look back at the picture and it was HIM!!!!.... Not what I wanted to see... he had a ton of them on there....

Don't ask to see the pictures though, ass face paid me extra to delete them...
 

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CardFan67 said:
funny you should say that... It was a customers computer that I was working on and he told me that there was none... he wanted his children's pictures recovered so we determined that they were all either Jpeg or Bmp files so I set those as the parameters... It searched and searched and found and found and we were up to about 2 gigs, he was like, "what the hell is all that I did not have that many pictures"... well it recovers in program graphics like logos and such so there was a ton of that, and then it also recovered some other stuff...

We were going though and filing the pictures and then I come across this somewhat dim photo and it is a picture of a woman bent over performing some mouthy services and we both kind of laugh and I made some comment about his taste in porn... I look at the guy and he is beat red and all of the sudden wishes he was on a southwest flight... I look back at the picture and it was HIM!!!!.... Not what I wanted to see... he had a ton of them on there....

Don't ask to see the pictures though, ass face paid me extra to delete them...

You should have charged him double for that!
 

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CardFan67 said:
I have a free one at home, I will put it up on the ftp for you guys to download when I get a chance... It is real good even on recovering partially overwritten files, in the settings if you are not careful you can even recover WAY more than you would ever want...

Were you able to upload this by any chance? I'd like to give it a try. :thumbup:
 

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I just got home.... My son is on the comp playing wow, when he gets off I will find the app and share away..
 

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Restoration

This is a newer version that the one I had used previously but I tested it out and it is simple and seems to work pretty well... It is not as thorough with as many parameter settings as it's predecessor but works great for the topic at hand here... I am going to try to re compress the original and post it as well, perhaps this weekend...
 

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I have to get you guys the original... This new version does not do 1/10th of the job the other one does... :bang: I even tested it by deleting certain files and testing recovery, some are recovered and some are not...

Again, I will work on getting the other compressed and up on here for you guys...
 

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Thank you for posting this Mike. I'll check it out! :)
 
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