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As is my username I was a bit of a big n00b this morning, installing a fresh Win8 and accidentally deleted my downloads HDD instead of my SSD, don't ask, I was hungover is all I can think.

It hasn't been formatted or touched since I pressed delete so am hopeful I can recover most of the files, any suggestions for software to do so?
 
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hiya, I use EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 5.0.1, works great from me on all data that has been deleted :) hope it works the same for you :)

just put the output folder on another harddrive and you should be good to go :)
 

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hiya, I use EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 5.0.1, works great from me on all data that has been deleted :) hope it works the same for you :)

just put the output folder on another harddrive and you should be good to go :)

Running this now, shall see what happens, gonna take a long ass time though as there's a few hundred GB's of data on it :cry:
 
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Running this now, shall see what happens, gonna take a long ass time though as there's a few hundred GB's of data on it :cry:

ouch, oh yeah this may sound stupid to you, but, just make sure the drive you are undeleting to, has enough space for the file you wanna save
 

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I am having to do it on the recovered drive, thankfully it's a 2TB and a fairly new drive with no bad sectors/issues etc

It's recovered over 100GB of good data so far :toast: There's 550GB in total :wtf:
 
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good, fingers crossed the files are still intact for ya
 

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good, fingers crossed the files are still intact for ya

ATI driver stopped responding during the recovery and Windows forced a fucking restart :banghead: got over 300GB worth and all of my photos which is what's important the rest of the stuff is games, movies and music.
 
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i think can you pick the files you want to save at the start of the scan, so you dont have to wait getting files youve already saved. maybe have a try
anyway at least its working for ya :)
 

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deleted file recovery

Hi, you can retrieve all your deleted files from hard drives, memory card or any other storage device by using deleted file recovery software. One of my friends had the same problem and I mentioned this product. With the help of this tool he was glad that he got back all his deleted files. You can download and try the demo version of the software. Any doubts reply me..
 

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As long as you have not put any data on it, it should be recoverable if only quick formatted. All this does is clear the file table and show empty. once you start writing to the drive, it will over write your data.
 
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Hi, you can retrieve all your deleted files from hard drives, memory card or any other storage device by using deleted file recovery software. One of my friends had the same problem and I mentioned this product. With the help of this tool he was glad that he got back all his deleted files. You can download and try the demo version of the software. Any doubts reply me..

Are you a Rep for them? Just wondering.
 
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I have had luck with Easeus Data Recovery on a drive that had been formatted and windows had been reinstalled. It took forever but we got all the data back
 
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I have had luck with Easeus Data Recovery on a drive that had been formatted and windows had been reinstalled. It took forever but we got all the data back

yeah same, Easeus Data Recovery works great for me every time
 

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Regularly backing up your stuff can prevent this from happening, or just watching what you're doing but it's an honest mistake if you're not taking your time. Good luck with recovering your stuff, hopefully its a lesson well learned and you get all of the important stuff back. :eek:
 

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Regularly backing up your stuff can prevent this from happening, or just watching what you're doing but it's an honest mistake if you're not taking your time. Good luck with recovering your stuff, hopefully its a lesson well learned and you get all of the important stuff back. :eek:

heck not doing any critical tasks while drunk/hungover is imperative too
 
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Use active undelete, i recently recovered 1tb data using it from my hard disk which was formatted by mistake using ubuntu
 
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you could always beat it with a hammer, and force it to cough up the data;)
 
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You can recover your deleted files from hard disk with the help of Kernel for Windows Data Recovery Software,just try to use this software may be you can recover your desire data.
Hope this Tool help you.
 
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