Hard Drive Data Recovery Software....

[300EVIL]

Does anyone know of a good freeware data recovery software? A couple years ago I accidentally formatted a drive with tons of family pics on it. Just the other day I found a great program that actually dug deep into the drive and recovered most of these pictures!
It's a great program, unfortunately they charge by the MB and to save all these photos and it's going to cost me over $300. While I'd like to just use them and their great software, I just can't afford it at this time. Here is a link to this software for anyone who is interested... https://www.binarybiz.com/vlab/windows.html

If there is a good freeware that will help me out, please let me know!
Thanks!
Adam

[sugeek]

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk - I actually heard about this one on some random computer show on Saturday driving back from the Trinity Site and VLA... The other one listed was: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

I hope that helps!

-Adam

[Doc]

Here ya go, no need to install

[300EVIL]

WOW! Thanks a lot guys! I'll try these out and report back on how it went.
Thanks Again!
Adam

[Phredy1]

300EVIL: I sent you a PM

[300EVIL]

Hey Guys!
Thanks, but none of these seem to extract what I want. They find nothing the virtual lab program finds.
Thanks Anyway!
Adam

[T0mmm]

http://download.cnet.com/Pandora-Rec...html?tag=mncol

[OynamaSh]

Recuva - a freeware Windows utility to restore files accidentally deleted or lost due to software failure or error. You can use it to scan the user selected media.

After scanning Recuva gives a list of deleted files. Each of these files has its own parameters: name, type, path, the probability of recovery, and the state (overwritten and can not be restored, partially overwritten completely intact).

[shrad]

this is OK for a physically healthy disk, but if the disk is end of life or damaged, just take a binary image as a first step so you're able to recover content by mounting it as an image