USB data recovery?

[Hom3r]

My dad has a USB sitck which he copied data to the HD so he could adjust the size of a protected area on it.

After he copied the data to the HD he deleted the data from the USB stick, but it also erased the data from the HD.

I had some free Software a few years back that allowed you to recover data from flash card. Does anybody know what this is called or where I can download software to try and recover the data thats been deleted.

[Hom3r]

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[r1ch]

I've got Lexar Image Rescue, which came with my Lexar Compact Flash card. Don't know of any free ones but I could lend you a copy if you want...

[popper]

http://www.smartpctools.com/recovery/
http://search.ntlworld.com/ntlworld/...ry+freeware&cr=

[jor]

http://www.easeus.com
http://www.ptdd.com

It seems that you lost your files.
Download the demo version to see whether it would help you.
Download demo version: http://www.easeus.com/download.htm

You can use "DeletedRecovery" to scan your drive. After the scan is complete, the lost file will be displayed in Data Recovery Wizard, you can select them and recover them.
NOTICE: never install in on the harddisk you want to recover.

[Stuart]

An excellent freeware file recovery program: http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

[bettyclark]

Try Disk Doctors Instant File Recovery. It helped me recover my deleted pictures from a USB hard drive. Hope it helps you tooo.

Good Luck!

[AntiSilence]

Originally Posted by Hom3r

After he copied the data to the HD he deleted the data from the USB stick, but it also erased the data from the HD.

How did that happen?

[Raistlin]

Ok, I know this is an old bump, but.....

I've looked at the software above and, given the age of the thread and the fact that some of the links look like commercial software), I thought I'd ask the question again and hopefully get some new responses.

Anybody got any suggestions for (preferably free) software for recovering files (some quite large) from a USB stick? The files have been deleted by the user by mistake.

Thanks.

[Horace]

http://lifehacker.com/393084/how-to-...-free-software

Restoration : http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html , using the scan all clusters option from the others menu seems to be the most thorough.

[altis]

If the files happen to be jpegs then RescuePro, that is available free with many Sandisk products, does a good job of recovering them.

http://www.sandisk.com/products/cata...rescuepro.aspx

It was created by LC Technology who sell a range of file recovery programs.

http://www.lc-tech.co.uk/software/software.html

[Raistlin]

Originally Posted by Horace

http://lifehacker.com/393084/how-to-...-free-software

Restoration : http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html , using the scan all clusters option from the others menu seems to be the most thorough.

Thanks Horace, nice article, I'll give those a go

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Originally Posted by altis

If the files happen to be jpegs

Nope, unfortunately not

Thanks though

[JediMaster]

Hi Rob M
I had wiped a 250GB drive & then remembered I wanted data off it lol. I use a few free programs off SnapFiles & got 85% of it back. Vids, MP3, JPgs & Text Files

I used http://www.snapfiles.com/get/undeleteplus.html & other ones at http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/sy...arecovery.html

[altis]

Originally Posted by Rob M

Nope, unfortunately not

Thanks though

I've just been playing with RescuePro 3.3. I was wrong! It manages to recover all sorts of files successfully after the card has been formatted. For example: JPG, PDF, XLS, DOC.

Copies are often available for next to nothing on eBay. However, I'd avoid version 4 which is written in Java and takes an age.

[paulw37]

I've used pcinspector before and whilst it does the job, I found it quite slow. I have since found Recuva, which works well and is fairly fast. This is Freeware.

http://www.recuva.com/