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Best File Recovery Software?

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September 15, 2014 12:09:40 PM

I've tried Recuva but it's pure crap! I recently formatted my E:\ drive with Win7 by accident and I'm trying to recover my files, the hard drive is empty and I haven't overwrote anything.

Recuva gives me back a load of messy unplayable/unlookable files with the only thing it recovered being the names.

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September 15, 2014 2:14:31 PM

Anybody?????
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September 15, 2014 7:04:49 PM

Try Testdisk/Photorec.
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September 16, 2014 5:55:47 AM

Power Data recovery / Testdisk / photorec - guys, these are all completely amateur programs. I do not know of a single data recovery company who would touch these with a bargepole - they simply do not work. They are rubbish.
However, I can tell you that if you are running NTFS, then getdataback is extremely good. So is r-studio. So is Winhex. So are a number of other programs that are good.
But these "power data recovery" and "testdisk" - they are for the inexperienced and naive.

Duncan Clarke
Retrodata.co.uk
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September 16, 2014 6:47:48 AM

DuncanClarke said:
Power Data recovery / Testdisk / photorec - guys, these are all completely amateur programs. I do not know of a single data recovery company who would touch these with a bargepole - they simply do not work. They are rubbish.
However, I can tell you that if you are running NTFS, then getdataback is extremely good. So is r-studio. So is Winhex. So are a number of other programs that are good.
But these "power data recovery" and "testdisk" - they are for the inexperienced and naive.

Duncan Clarke
Retrodata.co.uk


So out of the 3 you mentioned,what would be the first I should try? :) 
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September 16, 2014 7:07:14 AM

Update: Tried Getdataback and it was awful. Even worse than Recuva :( 
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September 16, 2014 10:16:06 AM

Although it is often seen as a "mickey mouse" program, I would first go for Get Data Back NTFS.

Overall, R-Studio is one of the best recovery programs on the planet, but it has its limitations where specific file systems are concerned.

I would give GDB a try first. I think that you can try all of these as a Demo to see what they can recover,

Good luck. By the way, I suggest you make a clone of the original drive and work from that - just in case something goes wrong. (Which it often does.)

Duncan
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September 16, 2014 10:22:17 AM

Sorry - just saw your update.

Sorry it did not work so well.

Using various DR programs gives different results - always. This is why, as a DR company, we tend to use a few programs, to be safe.

GDB is consistently good. R-Studio (R-tt.com) is also good- but not usually as good when recovering purely NTFS data.

Just google "NTFS data recovery" - you should find, eventually, something suitable. If not, it might just be that your hard drive has had better days, and you might be looking at "anything is better than nothing."

Apologies - I did my best, considering the options. But there are times when the MFT is so knackered that nothing will recover anything viable.

Regards

Duncan
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