Data recovery/undelete software/services ?

[PapillonIrl]

So here's what happened.

I installed a second hard drive for a friend of mine, he's on cubase and needed it for extra space and to reduce dropouts when recording etc.

All went well, fomatted the new drive and copied his audio files from one disk to another. Everything was in two folders. Songs and Samples.

He's running Windoze '98 (I know, I know), and I used a 'copy and paste' in explorer to copy the folders first. And then (when it had all copied across and my friend had cast his eye quickly over the contents of the folder on the new drive) I deleted the original folders.

So far so good. But it turns out that the folder on the new drive is missing one subfolder. This subfolder contains the audio and session files of the most recent track he had finished, a remix job for another artist.

Windows gave no error messages during or after the copy procedure.

Weird huh ?


Anyway, he's in trouble, and that means I'm in trouble unless we can get this data back. The two folders, when deleted, were too big for the recycle bin.


Please don't tell me I should have have compared the sizes of the folders before deleting the other one. I know that. I know I'm a dumbass. It was one of those 'you put in my drive and I'll buy you some beers' jobs. Don't drink and add drives.

Please don't tell me that it's impossible for Windoze to lose a subfolder during a copy procedure without reporting it. Because I know that too. But it happened anyway. I saw the subfolder there before we started, because he wanted me to hear the remix.

Can anybody fill me in on our options ? Recommend data recovery/undelete software or services ?

Thanks alot,

Nathan

[jjdpro]

The best for Pc's...

http://www.ontrack.com/

JJDPRO

[liquidpyramid]

Doesn't Symantec's Norton SystemWorks have an Undelete program?

[adamcal]

A program called R-Studio saved my File deleting ass. I got it here

http://www.r-tt.com/

Well worth it, found everything I lost once (quite a lot of stuff BTW).