Free File Recovery Software

PasturesNew

I've been using Treepad Lite for ages.... this file has the last six months' of notes and copy/paste and ideas I've had (I just dump everything into Treepad and it's all just there when I want anything).

I use it several times a day. Every day. Today I opened Treepad and the file didn't open. No error, nothing, it just wasn't there.

Doing a search for it (Vista Home) it comes up with the shortcut to the file location, but the whole folder's empty. The file is not in the recycle bin.

There's no reason it disappeared. It was there, now it's gone. I did nothing strange, or wrong. It's just gone.

So .... I'm now looking for some quick/easy/free file recovery software to be able to recover this one file, whose name I know.

Any recommendations?

Thx.

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http://www.shadowexplorer.com/

If it's important, backup

enigma52

try recuva from piriform, its good and free

deadduck_145

enigma52 wrote: »

try recuva from piriform, its good and free

had the same problem a few days ago, recuva didnt work for me, used EASEUS and was great. Only up to 1Gb recovery and then i think you have to buy

alexandera

FreeUndelete - FreeUndelete recovers accidentally deleted files from your hard disk, whether your hard disk has a NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16 file system. This is a Windows program.

hairy_g

I've used this without any probs:

http://www.roadkil.net/program.php/P28/Undelete

PasturesNew

Right. Used recuva so far. 3.6MB download, installed and let it run (there went 4 hours of my life) .... it found three instances of the file. None can be recovered though. Looking at it, it looks like the last Windows update overwrote it for some reason.

B4st4rd.

24 years in IT ... and this is the FIRST EVER file I've ever lost

It's not life-changing, but it is five months of links, info, addresses, events, lists and half-written articles I was working on.

Never really liked Treepad to be honest, but I had it, so I used it ... and everything I did, I added a node.

I'll try some of the other programs listed above, but I think it's the end of the road.

Maybe it's nice that I get to have a clean start again ..... historical data can be a pain in the 4rse as it mocks that you've done nothing with it yet.

KillerWatt

PasturesNew wrote: »

24 years in IT ... and this is the FIRST EVER file I've ever lost

24 years in IT and you don't do backups?

Anyway, I bet Encase would get it back

PasturesNew

KillerWatt wrote: »

24 years in IT and you don't do backups?

Anyway, I bet Encase would get it back

Backups are for the little people

Just used another one from above... deciding it's "game over". Lost interest now. Data's gone. I'll live. I can't even remember most of what could have been in there, so it can't have been THAT important can it.

Thanks guys

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Tried the first one?

PasturesNew

hairy_g wrote: »

I've used this without any probs:

http://www.roadkil.net/program.php/P28/Undelete

That one didn't even recognise my C: drive when I tried to select it from the list.

It's late now. Bored. Going to surf the Internet and start a new set of useless data instead. Fresh stuff I never go back to and don't really need. I'm a compulsive note maker and link saver