Deleted an exe file suggest me a software for file recovery

[ranjan2001]

I had a presentation made in director which was an installer which use to install the presentation on the host comp. I thought that I was deleting the copy of that file but 3 days later I found out that I deleted the original & emptied the recycle bin too.

I have few file recovery software which I tried but they all show me various image & multimedia files for recovery, they don't work with exe file.

Can anyone suggest any software which can recover the all kind of file including the exe files

The file was deleted from C drive My Documents, can system restore bring back the deleted files?

[DigitalDude]

try ontrack easyrecovery software....

but since a lot of time has passed from you deleting the file, it is highly probable that the place in the HDD was overwritten with new files..

so Its difficult to tell whether you will get your file back or not.. anyway no harm in trying.

how frequently you used the PC after deleting the file.. if you created a lot of files or copied deleted etc... i.e. if a lot of HDD activity happened in My Documents then.. mostly your deleted file is gone for good

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[ranjan2001]

Its only 3 days ago & I have not created much files since then.

Can easy recovery do selected file recovery by mentioning the file extension?

[DigitalDude]

you can just do a full scan for recovering all available deleted files in C drive. it will take time but its worth it.

but if you dont get anything, do a raw recovery in C drive.

and the software is pretty simple, you can find these options easily

dont do any work in C drive.. but its sad.. C is the OS drive so you can't help much. and install the recovery software in some other drive.


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[imageek]

R-studio.... i have heard it is a good recovery tool

[ranjan2001]

Originally Posted by DigitalDude

you can just do a full scan for recovering all available deleted files in C drive. it will take time but its worth it.
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Its running whole night since I installed almost 9 hours now but it still says "building tree"............................is it really building it or stuck at that. C drive has only 80gb of partition with 47 gb of data on it.

Getting impatient now.

[DigitalDude]

hmm I have gone through this... the sad part is you still dunno whether you will get the data back


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[scavanger007]

try recovermyfiles......
it recovered my whole 40GB partition when i accidentaly formatted it......
got all the movies back except die hard 4

[ranjan2001]

I downloaded recovermyfiles but it shows only image files, multimedia & some other files for recovery but no exe files.

Is there a way to recover the exe file in that?

[imageek]

even if you recover that file ..there is 99% possibility that it will be corrupt...

[DigitalDude]

^^^^
he clearly wrote what it is in his first post


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[ranjan2001]

Originally Posted by imageek

even if you recover that file ..there is 99% possibility that it will be corrupt... tell what file it'was mayb we can hep and fina another way around

I mean was it an exe of somw s/w u installed or wat??

If its corrupt then whats the point of recovery? I have been able to recover fully the image & multimedia files in past but this time its an exe file.

The file was a presentation of a german company made as an installable screen saver (made in Macromedia director) it had flash/video about the company/& other multimedia content. The exe would detect if the host comp can play all the video & multimedia & would install the required codec & software without the user intervention if the host comp did not have it.

[Faun]

R- Studio (Se;lect the whole drive to scan)
Recover My File (Run a Physical drive fast format recover)

These two softwares hav recovered a lot of data when my HDD got buggy. Make sure u dont touch the partition where th files are to be recovered (overwriting of data may make the exes corrupt). And save recovered files on another partition.

[scavanger007]

yes.......partition to be recovered and partition in which the recovered files should b kept has to be diff or else u will overwrite the data ........

@imageek
its not neccesssary that u will get corrupted recovered files......
u get corrupted recovered files when u added more to that partition after u lost the files....
if u have done nothing or very little to that partition after the 'LOSING' incident then u will surely get back the recovered files in as it was condition

[paid]

whenever there is accidental deletion NEVER install any apps. or recovery software in that hardisk to prevent overwriting on recoverable data ........instead use recovery software installed in other hardisk OR use recovery software from bootable CD/Floppy

[ranjan2001]

Originally Posted by paid

whenever there is accidental deletion NEVER install any apps. or recovery software in that hardisk to prevent overwriting on recoverable data ........instead use recovery software installed in other hardisk OR use recovery software from bootable CD/Floppy

Oh I didn't know that. I have installed the easy recovery in that partition only & its still running (building tree) & have not done anything yet, does it take so much of time, its almost last 19 hrs its running.

[scavanger007]

btw......there's a solution for this as well......
as u have installed the recovery softwares now.......make a zip file outta them .....so that when next time u face the same problem u wont need it 2 b installed just extracting them to 'non-affected' partition will do the work

[ranjan2001]

I don't understand what u meant, can u explain it in bit detail.
R u saying that when I find my file I save it as a zip?

[scavanger007]

nope i meant that u installed a recovery software right?
now got to the softwares location make a zip file of the installed software....understood?

[ranjan2001]

But will a installed software work like that, its like making a portable version of it, I doubt if that works, I will try.

Thanks

[scavanger007]

i have done the same with recovermyfiles and it works.......

[DigitalDude]

Originally Posted by ranjan2001

Oh I didn't know that. I have installed the easy recovery in that partition only & its still running (building tree) & have not done anything yet, does it take so much of time, its almost last 19 hrs its running.

I told ya...

Originally Posted by DigitalDude

[...]dont do any work in C drive.. but its sad.. C is the OS drive so you can't help much. and install the recovery software in some other drive.

btw in future keep all working data in a non-OS drive even move your 'my documents' to a drive other than C: (create a new My Documents folder in say drive D:, right click your 'My Documents' icon, choose properties, change the target folder path and select 'copy all files to new location')


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[paid]

for relief in future accidental deletion I suggest preinstall a recovery software and forget until you need to recover files OR use dual boot in different partitions so that you can recover your file from recovery software in second operating system from the same harddisk

[scavanger007]

y u guys wanna make a simple work complicated?
mine is the easiest no need of dual boot.....
and yes also do wat DD said.....

[MoksHa]

Try freeware undelete.
It really works......

[ranjan2001]

I could not get my file back using any of the software but on doing system restore I got the file since it was on C drive.

Few lessons learnt for future.

[DigitalDude]

kewl.. but 4 days got wasted


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[Faun]

lol...neway good news

[aadipa]

Originally Posted by ranjan2001

I could not get my file back using any of the software but on doing system restore I got the file since it was on C drive.
Few lessons learnt for future.

This is first instance I know of 'System Restore' being useful for something. In fact it is first thing I disable after windows installation. Or just disable it from nLite.

[ranjan2001]

Even I have it disabled for all the drives except the C drive, after all thats where u want most of system restoration.

Lucky that the file was on C/my documents/folders