Undo Shift-Delete

I screwed up! I shift deleted a number of documents from one folder when I meant to delete documents from a different folder...

Sooo..... Does anyone know a good recovery program that I can use to hopefully recover these files? Free if possible.

I've tried a number of file-recovery programs but have had no luck yet.

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Webmaster

The problem with the free ones seems to be they only recognize certain files., but in your case it sounds the following should do the trick:
www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

bighornsheep

sweet.....

thanks~

Webmaster

You're welcome. I wrote an article for Smart Recovery years ago but I still can't find it... (I'd actually need to run file recovery on a old disk to find it

), it was one of the three mentioned here. Besides restoring data, it's also a nice way to verify data was actually deleted. I.e. if you sell your digital camera including flash cards for example.

Ricka182

I've used PC File Inspector for recovery before. It works well, and it should do the trick....

blargoe

RecoverMyFiles is another good one but it isn't free

Megadeth4168

PC Inspector was the very first program I tried.... Followed by a half dozen other file recovery programs....

I can see files as far back as 2001 on this computer and many files from last week but I can't find any of the files deleted yesterday.

Oh well.... It isn't the end of the world if I can't get those files back. Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

Next time I go deleting files in the early morning I will wait until after I have my first cup of coffee.

JDMurray

I use File Scavenger v3 from QueTek (http://www.quetek.com/). The trial will recover the first 64K if any file on disk it can identify (including RAID drives), and the full program is only $50US. The testimonials section on their Web site is a good read (http://www.quetek.com/reviews_all.htm).

muriloninja

I am in the middle of attempting to retrieve files off my HDD with PC Inspector..so far it has found 10 photos.

I messed it up installing Vista RTM, it is slow i will say but as long as it retrieves the majority of my files, i will be happy.