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I am looking for a Windows tool that tries to find & recover all deleted files on a NTFS hdd (including healthy parts of partially overwritten files).
From my experience, results greatly vary.
What undelete software have you achieved the best recovery rates with ?
(freeware preferred, payware also acceptable)
I have used Recuva to recover deleted files on Windows boxes.
It generally works well. It's easy to use, and has a minimal learning curve.
My big complaint with it is that for years they offered a portable version. Without notice, they pulled the portable version from their website.
Hopefully someday they will come to their senses and release a portable version again. This is especially important for undelete software, since you don't want to have to run an installer that may write to the media on which you want to recover data.
getdataback for ntfs could be helpful. An other solution could be EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard. but don´t expect a 100% recovery from both. Also the files that can be recovered should be big enough, some small text file both programms were unable to recover.
