Recommend me a... File recovery programme.
 

So, what do you recommend?

My buddy who had the virus on his laptop, had the virus re-emerge recently (as I said it might), and rather than bring it to me so I could get it working once again, before backing up the files, and then giving it a fresh install, he decided to take it to the professionals. The professionals didn't back up all the files, so he has lost some important stuff.

I need a free, data/deleted files recovery programme, to try to retrieve the lost files.

What do you use or recommend?

Regards

Re: Recommend me a... File recovery programme.
 

PC Inspector File Recovery

Saved our asses when we were doing a big survey and a computer crash caused the loss of three days of our data (~£5k worth)

Used it a couple of times since at work and at home

Re: Recommend me a... File recovery programme.
 

Recuva?

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+1, used this a number of times

Re: Recommend me a... File recovery programme.
 

I'll give PC Inspector a shot then. Will it run from a USB drive?

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Don't think so, think it needs to be installed - you can run the installer from the drive though if it's internet access you're having issues with?

Re: Recommend me a... File recovery programme.
 

You can drag the program files across to USB afterwards and it works fine (got it on my pen drive as pasrt of a portable IT fixit kit - oh they joys of being a geek)

Re: Recommend me a... File recovery programme.
 

Hail lord geek... Please detail me the steps I need to put it on a flash drive, as i don't really want to put it on the laptop with the lost files.

Re: Recommend me a... File recovery programme.
 

How far south and west are you phi-dan?

Re: Recommend me a... File recovery programme.
 

'getbackdata' for ntfs, or ntfs undelete.