data recovery program suggestions

[dakranii]

Hi,
During a recent reformat, I accidentally lost some photos I thought I had backed up. Can any recommend a good program that I can use to get those back?

I found one that was good, but it charged a hefty amount for 1 gb worth of recovery. I don't need near that amount.

thanks.

 

[I12BPhil]

I think the cheapest you're going to find is called "GetDataBack" from http://www.runtime.org

It comes in FAT32 and NTFS formats. Check to see what you drive is formatted in before ordering.

It's about $70, but it's saved me on several occasions and does a really good job, so long as you haven't made too many changes to your hard drive recently. Any time you add files or software, you run the risk of over-writing recoverable data. You should also plan on having a separate drive to recover the data to.

 

[waynejkruse10]

thanks for that from me as well, i have a friend that is in a similar predicament to dakranii

 

[Osiris]

I use ERD Commander, works great.

 

[Elbatrop1]

I've used File Scavenger to recover a whole bunch of pictures that were erased by a virus (or something to that effect) and it recovered all of them without any probs.

 

[ekÆsine]

the best is probably EasyRecovery Pro from Ontrack, but some others are Recover4All pro, Acronis Recovery Expert Deluxe,

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=data+recovery+program