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PostPosted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 5:41 pm  Post subject: File Recovery
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What do others use to recover movie files accidentally deleted. I've tried half a dozen different ones now and whilst the data is recovered the resulting file will not play.

I've lost about 12 files and want them back :(

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:13 pm  Post subject:
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I use file scavenger,but if you accidentally delete something,you immediatly have to shut everything off,run the program & save your stuff,coz it's not really deleted,just not visible.the thing is that once you delete something windows and everything that is running start overwriting your 'deleted' data so in your case I'ld say forget it,just redownload them.since you've already tried a dozen,you have installed them all & had your pc running so there's 95% they're (partilly) overwritten ,but if you want to try again here goes...

ed2k: File%20Scavenger%20v.3.0.1%20Cracked%20(WinNT,2K,XP)%20(by%20DemolitionMan).rar  [1.73 Mb] [Stats]


ed2k: File.Scavenger.v.2.1h+keygen.(osloskop.net).zip  [1018.4 Kb] [Stats]

the upper is the most recent,good luck

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:30 pm  Post subject:
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only one thats ever worked for me in the past was "GetDataBack for NTFS" or at least i think that's what it was called.

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Thank you both. The files reside on a disk that is only used for data, and nothing else has been written to it. The programs I've used so far all say the data is good and recoverable - and all do recover, it's just that the files being AVIs won't play anymore. They are certainly corrupt as gspot doesn't recognize them either.

This is the first time I've ever deleted something like this. :roll:

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haha,I've had that once with an entire dir of 62 episodes.that hurt :wink:

well if they're on a seperate disk,you might still get lucky :mrgreen:

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haha,I've had that once with an entire dir of 62 episodes.that hurt :wink:

well if they're on a seperate disk,you might still get lucky :mrgreen:


Nope, just tries File Scavenger and exactly the same thing - files recovered but unplayable. Oh well!!

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you could always try the one spud suggested as a last resort :wink:

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Ontrack-EasyRecovery Po:
ed2k: Ontrack.EasyRecovery.Professional.v6.10.07.Retail-ZWT..rar  [34.36 Mb] [Stats]

Used twice with much success. Once for deleting the wrong partition by mistake and once for deleting the wrong folder while holding shift, :wacky:

I always keep an up-to-date version around, and it did succesfully recover .avi's.

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deleting the wrong partition?!?! that's even worse than I did :wink:

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deleting the wrong partition?!?! that's even worse than I did :wink:


Yeah, almost made me sick when I did it. :lol:

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karstmobile wrote:
Ontrack-EasyRecovery Po:
ed2k: Ontrack.EasyRecovery.Professional.v6.10.07.Retail-ZWT..rar  [34.36 Mb] [Stats]

Used twice with much success. Once for deleting the wrong partition by mistake and once for deleting the wrong folder while holding shift, :wacky:

I always keep an up-to-date version around, and it did succesfully recover .avi's.


Thanks kartsmobile, tried that too with the same results. I think I'll just give up.

What annoys me is the way Windows handles files. The data (file) is obviously still there so why isn't it a simple matter of rewriting the header/index instead of having to regenerate the whole file elsewhere.

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Videolan? or is the file really that messed up?

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he means that the file pointers were replaced corrupt so its all junk from different files mixed into one.

If its that messed up, it normally means you've overwritten the data on that drive or the file pointer sequence is messed up.

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Tried VLC, and I've avoided not writing anything to the drive. As I've stated already the data is reporting as 'good' so I don't know why it won't work with AVIs.

I'm beginning to wonder if it's because the drive is formatted as FAT 32, oh and also if because it's external (USB2) and something is 'lost' in retrieval to NTFS. ??

But thanks all for the input.

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Might be worth a try to recover to fat32. I think I'll do a test to see. I have a little homemade external usb2 drive (fat32). I'll see if I can recover a deleted file to ntfs for fun. :)

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