Thread: Just managed to delete 1,3tb of movies, help

As you can tell there are a million pieces of recovery software out there. Many can do very basic things, but don't suffice for a situation like yours.

r-studio is one of the best packages. Now you may have to pay $79.99 for the package is you can't torrent it, but this is a higher end and thus more sophisticated piece of software. I think it will be your best bet considering the file sizes and amount of data to be recovered.

Huh can't torrent it? After just 1 search i found it.
If you need help getting it just PM me.

Originally Posted by soretyo

1. Don't do any further action on the HDD ( adding new files on it)

This is one thing you must consider before recovering data. The more you install programs (adding files to your drive), the probability of recovering your data is decreasing.

I think I've read before that when you are recovering your data you must put it on a separate physical drive, not logical drive.

How good are these recovery tools being recommended?
I haven't used a data recovery tool for over 10 years now, but back then they sometimes got stuff wrong. So you would get the file back but maybe some bytes are wrong. Probably want to check the files somehow after they are recovered.

dont make any changes to hdd. specially dont move any new data to that partition and use recuva. as same thing happened to me once and recuva helped me recover a great deal.almost 210 gb out of 248 gb

...agree with Flagg, try R-Studio (I also tried all described above, just wanna to say - Recuva is the best from freeware), but do not really now why sometimes old v3.6 portable recovers way better. So, here down were included two versions:
portable v3.6 and already installed latest v5.2 x86 (launch by running RStudio32.exe)... if You want them - just PM me...

GetDataBack is the way to go... I use it all the time at work to recover customer data when it is overwritten or when I stupidly format a drive before backing it up. As everyone above has said, STOP writing to the drive in question, every bit that gets written reduces your chances of recovery significantly. Use a live boot CD if you need to, or install GetDataBack on another PC and hook up this drive as a slave. Also, you will need another drive to recover onto - it will not write these files back to the same drive.

Originally Posted by JayBlaze

How good are these recovery tools being recommended?
I haven't used a data recovery tool for over 10 years now, but back then they sometimes got stuff wrong. So you would get the file back but maybe some bytes are wrong. Probably want to check the files somehow after they are recovered.

This program is very reliable. All that has been removed is the entry in the file allocation table telling the PC where to look for the file contents. If nothing is overwritten, the file is just pieced back together, a new entry is made in the FAT, and you're good to go.

It's like losing the ID card to a movie in the video store. The movie is still on the wall, you just can't find it in the system. Go grab it off the wall and you can still rent it without issues and watch the entire movie.

Originally Posted by Magnolia Fan

It's like losing the ID card to a movie in the video store. The movie is still on the wall, you just can't find it in the system. Go grab it off the wall and you can still rent it without issues and watch the entire movie.

Interesting comparison, I guess the programs do more checks now. I remember back in the day being prompted to fill in the bytes with what I think they are if the software couldn't figure it out for sure. Though HD were significantly smaller than.

BTW, I may have misunderstood your response, but I don't think the problem in this post is with a FAT partitioned drive to begin with. FAT doesn't support the file size for these videos indicated by Shein in the posts.

+1 vote for Easus data recovery wizard.

I managed to loose some important data as well in the past (though it wasn't this large an amount). Just when I thought I'd tried every tool I bumped into this, and it worked perfectly! Only slight issue was that it made 2 copies of each recovered file, which in your case might be a problem since 1.3TB x 2 = 2.6TB :P

In the meanwhile, each sector over-written with a new file makes data recovery all the more harder, so like someone already stated before, avoid adding more files at all costs.