recovery

[rhapsodyfan]

hey

anyone know of a free program that can recover WAV files from a hard drive that had to be formatted? i found one and it found all my files but i need to pay 60.00 to save them. any help would be great

thanks

mike

[vern]

I don't know of any freeware data recovery software that works.

And even most of the commercial software doesn't work either.

Most of the time the demo will "find" deleted files and you pay for the version that will recover them only to find that all you have is the fill name; not the usable file.

There used to be an Unformat command in DOS.

Not sure if that still works or not.

I keep a complete copy of my entire hard drive on an external drive that I update at least once per month so I haven't had a need for data recovery software for a some time now.

[rhapsodyfan]

i used a program called  disk doctors digital media recovery. it says it found 225 gigs which would be about the amount i had on there and it gives the size of the wav file like #1 is 50549220 size (bytes) and so on... do i dare buy this for 50 bucks?

[vern]

Before I would pay for a program, I would need to see it actually work on at least one or 2 files.

I would suggest googling around and trying out various software until you find one that will let you recover some of the files with the demo version so you know it will work for you before you buy.

I don't have personal experience with this but a friend highly recommends this.

http://www.r-studio.com/#rstudio_NTFS

Not sure if the demo lets you recover anything though.

Good luck.