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Recovering deleted files (urgent)

mooshoeporkmooshoepork Registered User regular
edited June 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
I did a quick search but the topic I found didn't help me. I have just deleted a few ISO's that I need back. What is the quickest easiest way to do this? There are three 4.37 gig ISO's. I have tried a few programs but none of them seem to find them. I am running Windows XP btw.

EDIT: All programs I tried won't find anything over 50 mb. They find things I deleted eons ago, but no iso's.

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  • The Count Of Midget FistoThe Count Of Midget Fisto Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I'm pretty sure files that large are permanently gone. I hope it wasn't a thesis.

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  • mooshoeporkmooshoepork Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    it wasn't a thesis. But I am pretty damn pissed off. fffffffffffffffffaaaaaaaarking hell. I've lost about 12 gig all up.

    EDIT: I have two burned to seperate DVDs. Is there anyway to make the image from those DVDS again?

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    ya, files that large are very hard to recover.

    Basically when you delete something off the hdd it doesn't actually wipe that part of the HDD out, just deletes the info from the partition table, but the data is still there. the data is only truly "gone" if the sector(s) on the drive it lived on get written to by another program/app/temp file. so basically a 4GB file takes up a lot of sectors on the drive, and leaves a lot more space to get over written quickly than a small word document that only resides on a tiny fraction of the drive. And usually, if any parts of the file get written over, it becomes un-recoverable.

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  • RyakStormRyakStorm Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Try R-Studio www.r-studio.com I think they have a free trial, you'll probably have to pay for the software to recover files that large.

    I've used it in the past to recover large lost VOB's and ISO's

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  • HorusHorus Los AngelesRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Get Back Data worked for me , just make sure you get the correct version

    does take a long time to scan and then recover.

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