Have you ever accidentally delete your files? Almost certainly every one of you will answer in the affirmative. It is hard to imagine how many people every day in horror, clutching at his head, destroying the course work, certificate, balance sheet, a collection of photographs, or almost finished article. The operating system tries to prevent accidental loss and asks to delete the information, but the effectiveness of this extremely low. For any more or less advanced user this is a ritual - click Delete, then Enter. Warning nobody reads, undelete and the button "Yes" is highlighted by default.
More effective method is the two-stage removal. This includes the first file placed in a special system folder - Trash. From Trash mistakenly deleted file easily revert to its original place. But this does not give one hundred percent guarantee. First, many files are removed by baskets - to do this, hold the Shift key when pressing or selecting the menu item Delete. Second, the basket can be disabled or overloaded. No special warnings in this case does not arise. Third, the files deleted from the command line DOS program or any 16-bit program, the Trash does not recover deleted files fall. Finally, the basket can be simply cleaned.
But that's not all. Ten years ago, I received a shock when, as a joke by removing floppy classmate report on laboratory work - the fruit of his two-day work - learned that the floppy cart does not work. Thank God that he found a copy. Likewise is the case with flash - on removable disks to which they relate, Trash default is not recover files provided.
Fortunately for us (as well as spies, trying to find out our secrets), Microsoft unerase programmers have been very lazy or simply saves system resources. The file system is designed so that even permanently deleted file is really nowhere is not deleted or erased. He simply marked as deleted, but remains in place, alive and well. It was only when, the next write to the disk operating system will overwrite the new information at the same place - that's when a file you can say goodbye. However, they say that the intelligence community with the help of special techniques can restore the information even after two or three rewrites, but an ordinary mortal such methods are not available.
Restore deleted file in the FAT is easy. It is so easy that it is Recover Files used as a reference for laboratory work on programming in the first year at college. Moreover, the files can often be restored even after the "quick" format the disk. In NTFS is only slightly more complicated. So the Internet by thousands of utilities for data recovery for all tastes. Some programs are commercial and cost from tens to hundreds of dollars. This could include, for example, certain utility UnErase from the package Norton Utilities, File Rescue Software Company Shelf International, File Scavenger Company QueTek Consulting and RecoverNT from LC Technology International. The latter, incidentally, is much as 169 dollars.
Many programs are distributed on the basis Shareware, providing the user with a demo version with some limitations, such as date of use or size of the restored files. Some shareware-program fully functional, with one single exception - do not allow you to pay to keep recoverable files. It is a good ploy to attract deleted file customers! By shareware is very powerful and versatile software Easy Recovery.
But ordinary users, not prone to fits of rage, or sclerosis, utilities are photo recovery required to restore the once a year, and buy a program to recover deleted photos "Me and my dog" troublesome and costly. Pogoryuem and forget? No way out! You can find a freeware-program that is absolutely free. Of course, the functionality of these programs less than commercial, but we are not going to restore the RAID-array?
So, Undelete Plus from TouchStone Software. Free, but solidly made Mail recovery program. Size distribution - 850 kilobytes. For comparison, Easy Recovery 6 did not fit in 28 megs. The quality of development can be judged from that interface is available in 27 languages, switched on the fly. " Supported - Russian, Japanese, Turkish and even Afrikaans. Using the program is intuitive and does not cause much difficulty.
Once launched, we get into the main program window. In the left pane, select the drive, the files on which we want to restore, and then click "Scan. When scanning a program searches for all deleted files and displays them in a list on the right side. Undelete Plus automatically analyzes the state of the file and, depending on the chances of recovery, are classified into four groups - "excellent", "good", "pretty bad" and "overwritten". List of files, especially for hard drives, the rather impressive. I, for example, to locate a file, finally and irrevocably removed two or three months ago. The list can be filtered by the original location, file type, part name, file size, creation and modification dates, so to find the desired file easy. Noting the files undelete file and choosing a place for their recovery, press the button "Restore". And then a miracle happened! Of course, it may be that within a file instead of meaningful text written trash, but the percentage recovery is sufficiently large.
To increase the chances for successful completion of the process must comply with several rules. This applies not only Undelete Plus, but any other recovery programs. First of all, once you've found information missing, immediately turn off the computer. Of course, we should not pull out the plug, it may be that, along with one photo you will lose the entire disk. The less work the computer since the removal, the greater the chances of recovery. Ideal - get disc and all experiments were carried out by connecting recover lost datait to another computer. Another trick - in any case should not choose to write recovered files the same drive on which they were located. Until the restoration of all these files for the operating system - the ghosts. So, writing a file, it is easy to destroy the other. And it is not clear which of them was more valuable.
All of this has another side. Now you know what to delete files and empty the Trash completely insufficient to hide your secrets data recovery. Therefore, to remove the really important information to use special programs for the destruction of files. Their operating principle is simple - to place the deleted file, they write random garbage, and do it several dozen times, and only then mark the file as deleted. Such programs also can be easily found on the Internet, and many - absolutely free.