Guy at work had some cad drawings that he erased somehow on his personal computer before he worked for us and needs to recover them....he was told by on computer place that he must send it to someone with forensic software? I figured one of you may know of a way to retreive these files or some program that might be able to get these as well. Thanks in advance for any help.

11/2/2007 12:00:30 PM

I also have done the obvious google search but didn't know if some of those programs were crap or if they were what I would need to find those.

Thanks Again

11/2/2007 12:02:41 PM

so he can still get into windows but he accidentally sent his cad files to the trash bin?

11/2/2007 12:15:36 PM

He said he can still get to windows just fine and what happened was he was using nero to burn a cd and cut the files onto the cd (first mistake) then he added to many files (second mistake) and the burn process didn't finish but the files were gone. He did a search but couldn't find anything as well. As you can see this guy isn't the most tecnically savy individual but he does needs those drawings back.

11/2/2007 12:22:34 PM

R-Undelete, free from download.com.

11/2/2007 12:42:02 PM

^ to start with.. ntfs or fat32? I'm assuming probably ntfs, it is most likely possible to get them back. Sending the drive to a place with "forensics software" is pretty a pretty retarded suggestions. Sure it would work, but there are free utilities that will do the job unless he's purposely done something to destroy the data (i.e. wrote random data to the whole drive, normal deleting them doesn't delete the data, only basically makes it not visible) he can probably get them back for free

[Edited on November 2, 2007 at 12:45 PM. Reason : asdf]

11/2/2007 12:44:53 PM

how does r-undelete compare to getdataback? i've always used the latter and have no complaints whatsoever

11/2/2007 12:53:29 PM

thanks for the advice....if anyone has any other tips or recommended software let me know as well

11/2/2007 1:08:29 PM

Recuva is nice too, from the makers of CCleaner: http://www.recuva.com/

[Edited on November 3, 2007 at 12:00 AM. Reason : .]

11/2/2007 11:59:52 PM

Quote :

"^ to start with.. ntfs or fat32?"

to finish with, it supports both. /thread



"how does r-undelete compare to getdataback?"
never used the latter. But R Tool Technology has some badass software. R-Drive Image is sweet. You can make exact copies of disks in windows. So you can boot to your C: then copy it to a USB hard-drive while it is up. Only thing it does not do is resize partitions.

11/3/2007 11:42:57 AM