winaddons.com— Recuva is a new file recovery tool that will unerase files that you have mistakenly deleted from your computer.It comes from the same company developing CCleaner, so we are expecting another small jewel.
Jan 18, 2007View in Crawl 4
Yeah, but even the smartest have had that moment where you make a little mistake and a file goes away. I even deleted some stuff that I didn't care enough to back up but I wouldn't have minded being able to undelete it. In the end I just lost the files and I don't even remember (or care) what they were now, but if I had a quick and easy tool to recover them I would have been happier. Its free, so why bust balls?
windows software, ugg..Any Opensource software I can stick on a linux live cd that can get data off of Fat, NTFS, HFS, HFS+, Ext2, Ext3, + any other crazy FS?If so please let me know!
Your exasperated comment about it being windows software is quite unneeded. I don't go and post "open source software, uggg. That means it will look like crap and probably won't support the hardware I have" on everything, even if I do think it.
afaik Mac drives (well, the OSX system anyway) defrags as it goes along, so you don't actually need to do a big four-hour long defrag like you do with Windows.
I read something once which put it like this. Although the data is stored in a binary system, the universe is not binary - it's analogue. Drives only interpret an analogue signal as either a 1 or a 0. It follows that some 1's can be more, well, One-ish than others. and some 0's can be more 0-ish than others, because no analogue system is perfect.So, suppose you analyse a 1 and it comes out as being 93% one, and you analyse another 1 and it comes out as being 98% one. You can propose from those results that the first 1 was more likely to have been a 0 before the last time it was overwritten, whereas the second 1 is more likely to have been a 1 before the last time it was overwritten. So we can conclude that before the 11 was overwitten, it may well have been 01. Hence, multiple overwrites do help hide data.Well, I don't know if that's actually how it works, but that's what the article was trying to say. Sorry I don't have a reference - it was ages ago.
So files are permanently erased, then?And FYI: Defrags don't take that long anymore, if you have hard drives built within the last 4 years or so. My 200gb RAID array defrags in well under an hour. Yes, a long "pause" in one's use, but much shorter than it used to be.
Every time after I scan my drive for deleted files the program experiences a problem and must be closed. I love CCleaner, but Recuva has some work to do.
nick0909Jan 19, 2007
Yeah, but even the smartest have had that moment where you make a little mistake and a file goes away. I even deleted some stuff that I didn't care enough to back up but I wouldn't have minded being able to undelete it. In the end I just lost the files and I don't even remember (or care) what they were now, but if I had a quick and easy tool to recover them I would have been happier. Its free, so why bust balls?
fanboydcsJan 19, 2007
windows software, ugg..Any Opensource software I can stick on a linux live cd that can get data off of Fat, NTFS, HFS, HFS+, Ext2, Ext3, + any other crazy FS?If so please let me know!
nick0909Jan 19, 2007
Your exasperated comment about it being windows software is quite unneeded. I don't go and post "open source software, uggg. That means it will look like crap and probably won't support the hardware I have" on everything, even if I do think it.
aliguanaJan 19, 2007
afaik Mac drives (well, the OSX system anyway) defrags as it goes along, so you don't actually need to do a big four-hour long defrag like you do with Windows.
piesforyouJan 19, 2007
I read something once which put it like this. Although the data is stored in a binary system, the universe is not binary - it's analogue. Drives only interpret an analogue signal as either a 1 or a 0. It follows that some 1's can be more, well, One-ish than others. and some 0's can be more 0-ish than others, because no analogue system is perfect.So, suppose you analyse a 1 and it comes out as being 93% one, and you analyse another 1 and it comes out as being 98% one. You can propose from those results that the first 1 was more likely to have been a 0 before the last time it was overwritten, whereas the second 1 is more likely to have been a 1 before the last time it was overwritten. So we can conclude that before the 11 was overwitten, it may well have been 01. Hence, multiple overwrites do help hide data.Well, I don't know if that's actually how it works, but that's what the article was trying to say. Sorry I don't have a reference - it was ages ago.
dumbledoritoJan 19, 2007
So files are permanently erased, then?And FYI: Defrags don't take that long anymore, if you have hard drives built within the last 4 years or so. My 200gb RAID array defrags in well under an hour. Yes, a long "pause" in one's use, but much shorter than it used to be.
flessaJan 21, 2007
Every time after I scan my drive for deleted files the program experiences a problem and must be closed. I love CCleaner, but Recuva has some work to do.