Dirty Harry Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 I have a memory stick that I may have deleted the father in laws accounts from when changing from old to new laptop. I can't find the info on the old laptop and it does not show on the memory stick. Anyone know if I can 'find' it on the stick? Please help and get me out of the dog house. Harry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerico Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Sorry I have no idea but allow me to be the first to say: HaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamC Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 You may be able to get a tool to try and recover deleted files of the memory stick. What has happened to the disk where the files were saved originally? I would have thought you may have more luck getting a tool to try and recover the files off that disk. Files can often be recovered from a formatted HDD, even if a full format has been done, but with the latter specialist disk services may be required. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul1966 Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 just had a quick google and there are programs that will do it. depends how important the data is. it might be worth sending it to a proper data recovery company. i successfully retrieved data of a hard drive that lost its file system using a program from seagate, not sure if it works on memory sticks though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Kirkbride Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 I have a memory stick that I may have deleted the father in laws accounts from when changing from old to new laptop.I can't find the info on the old laptop and it does not show on the memory stick. Anyone know if I can 'find' it on the stick? Please help and get me out of the dog house. Harry If you download and install this software, then do a search for a piece of software called "Recover My Files", you will find a 'cracked' version which should do the job, download, install then it's up to you if you want to buy it after it's proved itself. Good luck http://www.utorrent.com/download.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 I got some files back with this not so long ago. undelete plus It will probably recover most of them in reasonable condition provided you have not written anything else to the card... Which overwrites them. Best of luck Harry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Joe Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 This Proggy may help you out DH, hope it does, Power Data Recovery, valued at US$79.99, is a risk-free and READ ONLY data recovery utility that helps you recover your data after accidental deletion, accidental format, repartition, virus attack, software malfunction, system crash. It is an easy to use data recovery utility that examines your inaccessible hard drives for damages and corruptions and recovers the data back. Version 4.0 supports MP4/M4A/3GP raw data format by Deep Scan., supports Office 2007 raw data format by Deep Scan. Feature overview: • Recover data after accidental deletion • Recover data after an accidental format • Recover data from an inaccessible volume (logical drive) • Recover data after FAT corruption • Recover data after repartition (fdisk) • Recover data from a crashed physical device • Recover data after an MBR corruption • Recover data from a hard drive, camera card, USB drive, Zip, floppy disk • Recover data for any error except physical damage Key Features: • Supports FAT 12/16/32 • Supports NTFS • Supports NTFS compressed and encrypted files • Supports Dynamic Volume including Simple Volume, Spanned Volume, Stripe Volume, Mirror Volume and Raid Volume. • Supports RAW data recovery • Built-in preview function • Built-in resume recovery function • Built-in Recovery Wizard What’s new: New Feature overview MP4/M4A/3GP raw data format is supported by Deep Scan. Office 2007 raw data format is supported by Deep Scan. Open office raw data format is supported by Deep Scan. Open deleted partition directly without fully scan. Multiple scan result is supported. Faster recover engine. New user interface and experience. Vista ready. http://rapidshare.com/files/82392898/Power.Data.Recovery.v4.0.0-WWW.HOAXFREE.COM.rar pass if asked:hoaxfree.com BJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 (edited) In order to stand a chance of getting anything back don't use the memory stick, don't write anything more too it. If you already have you might be out of luck. When you delete files they are not actually deleted at all, the space allocated to storing them is simply marked as free for re-use and (in this case) the FAT (file allocation table) updated to remove reference to the files. Recovery software (some good ones mentioned in the thread) ignores the FAT and simply looks for files it can recognise by looking at a block level. If you have subsequently written data to the thing, it could be you have inadvertently really deleted the files. Even then you can get some or all of the data back, depending on the media in use. For hard drives there are forensic tools that can be used to get some data back, with memory sticks it's not usually possible if they have been overwritten. Edited January 10, 2008 by pin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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