I learnt alot from this lesson. Thanks for explaining everything clearly and in detail. Especially the part, when you spoke about how the pointer of the file is deleted, but the file is still on the PC etc. And the part about I.D.10.T errors.
Thanks for the vid. I accidentally deleted my whole downloads folder. I thought I'd just use system restore but my windows protection was disabled somehow. This really helped.
Okay, just to make absolutely sure, before I format my flash drive and therefore erase all the files, does this approach apply to removable USB flash drive?
For those who are asking if it is possible to run Recuva from a flash drive... Here's the first link I found on Google -> www.piriform.com/docs/recuva/advanced-usage/running-recuva-from-a-usb-drive You can do what's explained in here on another computer if you really are concern about deleting this/these file(s) and run Recuva on a flash drive, BUT, as Eli said, he personally do not care about it. I mean, when you delete a file, if you have something like 20-50% or more free space on your hard drive, the chances that this deleted file will be overwrite is really really low. And even if you have 5-10% free space, the chances are, again, low, but more, hum, "real". And, for those who are asking if it is possible to run Recuva to restore files deleted because of a system restore... I'll be honest : Yes. :) Again, I did a Google search (Google's your friend, it will not bite you, I promise), and here's the first link I found -> answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-files/find-picturesvideos-after-accidental-system/0235ae2a-2655-458f-b883-955c50897903
Excuse me, do you know a particular file recovering software that can completely scan my hard drive for files I have deleted a long time ago well over a year ago and recover them for myself? Is it true just because you delete the files whether on your pc screen or recycle bin does not mean the file is completely gone? For example, would it be possible to recover my files I deleted in 2016 and 2017?
hi mr Eli, I have just seen you video about recovering files after deleting but the problem I have not got anything back and this problem has happened yesterday and I went straight away back to the bin and restored everything but I didn't get anything back and I saw any recovering videos like yours and I downloaded the software and still nothing. so now I am afraid that the folder I deleted is been overwritten ????? so please can you tell me what to do ?? thank you
@amraag2010 ...I think this works on 2003... Boot off the install CD... skip the first option to "Repair", you will then be given an option to install Windows or to Repair the current installation. Choose "Repair" from this screen... This worked from Windows NT though XP, I'm not sure when they stopped allowing it for servers... basically it just reinstalls all the important OS files. You have to redo all of your Windows Updates if it works, but otherwise your system should run like normal.
No... once they are over written they are gone... Unless you're NSA ... (I've heard they have the ability to recover data that has been overwritten up to 9 times, but it takes up to a year to do...)
If it's that important you can ship your drive off to a high end data recovery shop... they may be able to get the data back for you, but you'll be looking at a $2000+ bill...
This guy is the man, it's great how he tells you what to do and how to do it in such a way it's so easy to take in! You would have to be a goons child not to understand.
Thanks Eli your the best! My wife accidentally deleted 10 years of home videos trying to move them from one drive to another. thankfully she knew enough to STOP everything she was doing on the laptop. at this point we were able to recover 99% of the files . thanks again
Great Video Eli! However I had videos in one folder then when I wanted to add more videos and I accidentally put replace videos in the folder with the new ones. Because they had the same name they got replaced by the new ones, and I cant recovered them. I tried this method with recuva on the file but couldn't find them and instead just "recovered" the ones the I just added. Please help, would greatly appreciate it.
amazing course! my sony crashed before and didn't know about pointers details,I used the iskysoft data recovery, it worked and most of my data are saved.
This will be hell for me to do. I accidentally deleted a server world for minecraft...which I guess I could easily find...if I hadden't already deleted previous versions before hand. I had a look through and recovered all that was in the folder, but the mishmash of files from other versions makes it impossible to organise and set apart...even though I have my world back, it is still lost forever. And here's me remembering backing it up but nope...no back up.
This is because you've written a new partition table and, most likely, overwritten some of the data. You can try Photorec or a program like Foremost that will look for the data based on the headers and footers of the file itself. It's a bit more advanced and you'll have to research how to use them, but they can sometimes turn a "hopeless" situation around.
but i DELETED the DOWNLOADS,, ... the hall downloads,, and it never went even to the recycle bin,,, it jusf GOT DELETED,, how to RECOVER THAT Please help me out
So... if Recuva tells me that my files had been overwritten with another file (it actually tells me what file is occupying the space of the older one) they're gone forever right?? I mean, there's no chance or hope to get them back right?? I'm asking this because recuva did find the files I deleted by accident but they're shown with a red icon beside them and the status says Unrecoverable... gosh I'm screwed... I clicked Recover either way, and the files are back but when i try to open any of them (They're videos) neither Wmp or any other video program will make them work... I'd really appreciate if you could answer my question Eli, I'm desperate and I really need some help. Thank you for this video though!
I installed WINDOWS 7 PROFESSIONAL...BIG MISTAKE..LOL--I forgot my password--paid to open it--all my files are deleted, pics, webcam, programs--just everything!!! So, is there anything I can do about it? Thanks---ps it also says I have WINDOWS *8 --which I didn't install. Thanks again for your help!! :0)
I was deleating some shit and i deleated a document i wasn't supposed to delet. Now this was a few days ago so i relised this today. Now i've tried this program. I've tried plenty others. I've tried way to fucking many things. I've spent hours upon hours today trying to recover this fucking document but i just can't I ran this program letting it to a deep fucking scan. I did minor scans of everything that i could imagine. Even shit i knew that document wasn't in. And it's not there. Can someone sugest a way of recovering this file that actually works? Because i still haven't found anything that helped me recover the document. It was a wordpad document wich i deleted. I'm giving up.... They say recovering dead files are so easy. Oh ah... Yeah, well i've tried everything these so called experts tell me to do and NOTHING has helped me.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO RECOVER DATA FROM C DRIVE, UN FORTUNATELY i have kept some photos in that drive, but system got crashed, have re-installed, then from c drive got .then i re installed with windows 7, then xp, now is it possible to recover that data from c drive from Ramakrishna,B.
I used Recuva top find my deleted windows outlook 7 emails. but couldn't open them by double clicking on the file/folder. Got an error message "not a valid Win 32 application" Tried using "Open With/C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start"Menu\Programs\Microsoft Office", but that didn't work either. Also tried dragging the file into Outlook inbox but go an error message, "file too big". What to do?
Well here is a sad story for you.I had to travel home for a family emergency,while there I took pictures on my new Samsung Tablet did not save the pictures,but they were on the Tablet,so I am now heading home with Tablet got on the flight and was told nothing about the flight locking all electronic devices until after they did this.Got off the flight got home sat back to see my photos,turn on the Tablet all pictures GONE.I am devastated.I went to the place today I bought my Tablet from the Tec could not retrieve my photos and I am so freaking mad upset nothing I could do.So is it true that if you don't save photos and this happens can they be retrieved? Is to late now but I wish it could have been solved for me.Regards BrokenHearted.
I have a HDD that came out of a WD20000-H1NC-00 networked drive. The drive wouldn't show up on my network, so I took it out of the case and connected it to my computer using a SATA to USB external powered adapter. In Windows XP it shows the drive as a 668 MB CD Drive (healthy) - in Windows 7 it shows the complete drive as being unallocated. I am using the program on my XP machine cause it's a desktop and I can leave it running for a day if needed vs. my laptop. When I plug it directly into my desktop as a extra data drive, my desktop runs slow and freezes. I am trying to do a scan using AOMEI Partition Assistant Edition - the Partition Recovery Wizard. to see it is shows any data on the drive (I'm not sure what file/format the drive is in that was used by the NAS drive case). When I choose the drive and doing a full scan it's stuck on 0% scan process. It's a 1 TB drive (930.86 GB total actual space). Any suggestions on how I can get the files that are on this drive copied to a new drive without deleting anything? Thanks.
Please Help... Deleted some larger (100M-1G) videos from my phone recently, tried several software tools but they couldn't find them (Recuva wouldn't select the phone as a scan option)... The other software was able to find some OLDER videos I deleted but not the ones from just recently? Is it possible they were too large that the phone DELETED deleted them as soon as I did? What can I do :/
Hi Elis First of all I wanted to say thank you for making your video's so easy to understand, I have an Apple mac and I want to recover deleted photo's from my phone I just wanted to ask would this program work on my phone? If not do you know of one that will which I can down load I have a Samsung Galaxy GT-S5830 I hope you can help!!!!
Didn't work for me because it ask me to pay for the full version if I wanted to recover the files it found....FREE? WHAT? Free to download so it will replace your files with theirs.....This Pisses Me Off....This is the second one that has done this to me. Time to fork out the money but not to the ones that took advantage just because they could. BTW I have a Mac....No Go Free
Get EaseUS Data Recovery if you're having trouble with Recuva. We have to admit, it sucks and it's a miracle Eli recovered anything with it. It's only free for 500 megabytes of recovery though, but hey, it works!
Hi, I have sony digital music player model NWZ-B153F. This comes as a walkman portable device and not as a USB device. How to access this and recover the data from this? Can you help please?
In my case I deleted 'my documents' several thousand files . RECUVA found all of them ... but recovers them in a single group' How can you restore maintaining folder structure ?
Hi, I used my external hard drive to build a System Recovery Drive for my Windows 8 and in doing so it wiped out all my files from my external hard drive (150 gig of my files). Is there any way to recover those files from my external hard drive that I lost?
I spent the last 2 days running the Recuva program and going through the recovery process. I have many documents recovered but they are not readable, looks to be in ASCII or something. How do I fix this problem? Thanks
My Windows 10 Desktop got a blue screen yesterday and I allowed it to scan and fix C: Drive. Then, I went to my account and everything on my desktop vanished and was restored to factory settings. Now when I use this and deep scan my desired location it stops loading at 39%. I uninstalled and installed again and still the same thing. Anything else I could do? Thanks
Hi, I don't know what I did to my computer some notice like the CRdrdll.files are missing. It would not let us use anything without this box opening up, no internet, no word, excel, any kind of programs. So my husband did a recovery back to its original state and we have nothing, no photos, documents, I had a ton of them, and nothing is working. I lost everything, how can we bring them up, or is it late cause he did a total recover on it. Please help!
i fucked up.. i deleted a folder containing 98gb of data... i was supposed to be able to restore from recycle bin, but i completely forgot about the storage limit within the bin, so it just sent everything straight to hell... thanks for this tutorial! i successfully recovered 61gb of that, so not all was lost.. so really, thank you! p.s. im not a computer noob, i know about system recovery functions within my system, but i dont have that enabled.... it wasnt enabled when i installed my OS and i didnt do it manually, as i have never needed to worry about that.. i partition my hard drive, so that even if my OS fails, i can reinstall it, and not lose anything important, i run regular virus scans using Nod32 on the partition that contains the data, so its normally all good.. i just made 1 error, while testing an anomaly :D
Hello ELI . those pointers are done by operating systems ? . Let's say that i want to recover some data from a hard disk that used to running ubuntu . i've put it on slave and i'm running Recuva on Windows 7 . Recuva will be able to make the pointers on a hard disk that was running other operating system ? . Thx P.S : Sorry if i find the aswer to the an another video but i have a short memory and i don't want to forget it :))
i really need someones help. i formatted memory sd card in cmd process which was already corrupted .but after formatting sd card is working perfect.but when i trying to recover my data installing software like easyusdata recovery , handy recovery and test disk .i can't found files. please help me ,thank you
I was recovering 1 TB external drive, then I realize I should get another partition drive to save those recovery files and my local drives almost full. I think fristly we should get another empty drive with same size as the recovery drive or more. (11:04) another thing we should consider is the amount of time for recovery, the 1 TB drive full recovery could cost almost 6 hours, so take your best time to start this task.
So, quick question, since deleting a file simply erases the pointer to its location, would a simple way to permanently clean a hard drive be to use a program such as crunch to generate a massive text file to overwrite any free space and then reformat? I have done this by accident by putting an extra 0 in the program :D
i can't find them :( i lost 2 folders of photos today, maybe like 2gb or so. they accidentally deleted when i tried to delete a onedrive folder and i recovered my whole recycling, the onedrive recycling, restored previous onedrive data, there was no folder restore data, have been looking through revuva for hours and nothing is popping up. no photo previews of the photos i want and since i dont know the specific photo names i just can't find them. i keep trying to convince myself that they don't just disappear and they got to be somewhere but its looking more and more like they are gone
I accidentally shift deleted my files on the desktop. When using Recuva software it wont show anything if i can on the desktop. I did not turn off my laptop, it recently happned. Can you please help me get back my files.
maybe because of some virus i again lost all the files i recovered yesterday (which i resotred on external hard disc), now i can't find them even in recuva deep scan (niether on hard drive nor on external hard disc). is there anyway to reach them? ofcourse i am taking care of the virus. thanks in advance.
Nice Info... My external hard disk is not getting detected at all on Recuva, while with other recovery software (i care) it is getting detected. I have concern with the pricing they are asking for price even more than the device cost. any help ??
I had a photos in Libraries > Pictures and i had formatted the the windows and later on after the formats completes and then i remembered shit what have i done ? So please computer GUY is this recuva gonna recover that ? Is there any possible ways to recover it ? please need a serious help Eli the Computer Guy
i formatted my external hdd, it was 2 tb capacity and the files was around 500 gb i then moved 1gb file in that hdd,is it possible it has been corrupted all my 500 gb data.
OK, Link right? Does it mean i can use a different operating system to recover? How does a created file works on different operating system if its the operating system that creates links - how does the other OS recognize this?
Well this is a bit strange, it can find things for a few days ago which are excellent, even some things from 2009! but something I deleted around 5 hours ago [Yeah I have been using all different types of programs] never shows up... I even have the same exact type of files that were deleted just a few minutes after/before that show up in every recovery program, but the actual ones I need are never even mentioned, not a glimpse of them on any program used... WTF
A note on that ID10T error you mentioned at the end, your generalized statement that none of the recovery software will recover files that aren't deleted is not entirely correct. For example, scalpel, which is very unrefined, does not take note of these pointers that still exist. I even took a few minutes to confirm this before posting. In response to everyone here who restored/repartitioned/reset, pick a recovery software and give it a shot.
I know you're very busy Eli, but a response would be Killer. Even from others would be kewl. I moved an external green drive from its case(bad) into my desk top and it shows as a numbered drive and unallocated in disk Mngt. I thought I would have to initialize it in order to access, which I'm guessing was a mistake, but I'm hoping it's one I can overcome and retreive my data. Are external drives automatically encrypted and using my desk top would be useless?
I was having trouble getting important files off of a drive as it was asking me to format it. I ended up getting GetDataBack, and I thought it worked without thoroughly checking the files it recovered. It actually only recovered half the files. Without checking files, I then took that drive and formatted it, and I then installed Ubuntu. I just now reformatted it again. It was about 30gb of files, Ubuntu was only like 5. I have tried all software and none will find files other than Ubuntu files.
If you ran the program correctly you should get a list of documents it sound that can be recovered from the pendrive. Once the list comes up make sure to check all of the documents or the documents you want and make sure that the Recvura will recover the files on files which is on your computer not on the pendrive otherwise the recovered files might overwrite the location of files you had on your pendrive and then you wont be able to recover those files
the first warning Eli... can't we just have the recuva in an external hard drive and run or scan the computer? do we really need to install the recuva software into the computer?
as soon as I connect hard drive from my dead toshiba lap top to a windows 7 think pad it happens a question: do I want to recover this files. Right after asking me to format it - which will erase all of the data. how do i get around it?
I have a question yesterday I was puting pictures on my computer I got them all on there n then I decided put my videos on there I accidentally draged my vedios to my recycling bin from my phone n deleted them is there a way I can get them back ever again??
Hey, My external hard drive was stolen and reformatted the information is extremely important to me. SOMEONE stole my 1TB WD hard drive and I assume typed the password in too many times and triggered a reformat. Before I had about 700GB of data used. Now it is blank. All these different recovery software won't bring my files back. Is there any other way??
Thanks Dylan. Yeah that's the main hurtle, it doesn't recognize it as a drive. Update is that I did purchace a-"like" donor pcb board for the broken usb port but the only thing it did was load WD's smartware. Not sure if that helps or hurts. Will I have to initilize it to the point of giving it a drive letter then work on retrieval? Any help appreciated, thanks...
wen u say "not too damaged" are you resuming to viruses or worms r whatever? ,is it possible for logs and all that sort to be recovered from using this tool aswell? or is this jus serting txt.files? thanks eli
this does not work. you can only use 100 mb free but when you have a bigger file like me you cant use it. you can i guess if you pull out your wallet....
If you are worried about installing it and over writing a document, just install it to a flash drive and run from there being you have the option to select which drive you are trying to scan for recovery
Also, I tried moving said drive into another enclousure and it's still giving the same results. What is the best approach / direction to head from here? I believe that it's about data recovery, but I have to access it first. Any help from anyone will be appreciated, thanks all, later, Killer...
I learn alot with your classes... i will like you to help me with my windows update failed files, i try to do what windows help advised you to do but still there and i can not fix it or deleted, thank you for your time and your help you are very good teacher...God bless you!
I have tried to use recuva a few times but has never managed to recover anything. Are there any other free recovering tools. I use to use something called jpeg dump for recovering jpg from flash media. I cant find the tool on my computers and a Google search brought nothing but rubbish up.
I used stellar phoenix video repair and it tried to fix the videos but after the repair and saving it, it's still not playing and is still corrupted. from a window that popped up, it says i can upload it using PREFERENCEs to get free repair services. thanks so much eli for your response!!
Will Recuva allow you to recover deleted texts done on an Iphone? All I have is the hard drive that the Iphone was backed up to. The backups show up on the list of the Wise REcovery software but when I try to open them they are all gibberish. Help!
i tried to recover data from my SanDisk USB but couldn't. I have it on password lock too but removed the password so it can detect it. I can't get anything or didn't seem to be working. I just have an empty folder when I open the folder. I will try again.
Hi Bro , this is roshan , i have watched ur videos , its good job ,ur very helpful to me and all.... those who want to learn about computer , really i like the way ur explaining ,thank you... my english is not good sorry for that....
I haven't done alot of deleted file recovery, but you should be able to point it at unallocated space as long as your machine recognizes it as a drive. If the one you're using does not, you may want to look into some others.
I knew it wasn't too hard to recovered deleted files in Windows (except for overwrites, shredding, reformating, repartitioning, etc.), but I was told it was not possible in a Linux environment ?
I think Eli did say an overwritten file CANNOT be retrieved PERIOD. It is gone forever from existence. Recuva only recovers files that have lost their pointers but still exist within the HDD
I should also mention that these are extremely important server files that I absolutely need to recover. I'm really sorry to bother you with this, but it's extremely important to me and quite a few others.
hi there i really need u r help. one of my fren formatted my computer and all my files and pictures were removed if there anyway to get my pictures back plz help :(
Hello I am big trouble I accidently formatted a cd-r PLEASE HELP I need to recover all that info it was work related. Is recuva good for CD-R ?? Or what can I do Please
i deleted a folder with 6 different video files in it and run recuva and it found one of the files but not the rest? so it does work but im not sure how it didn't find everything within the folder i deleted. but this dude knows his shit ill be subscribing.
I learnt alot from this lesson.
Thanks for explaining everything clearly and in detail.
Especially the part, when you spoke about how the pointer
of the file is deleted, but the file is still on the PC etc.
And the part about I.D.10.T errors.
Thanks for the vid. I accidentally deleted my whole downloads folder. I thought I'd just use system restore but my windows protection was disabled somehow. This really helped.
Okay, just to make absolutely sure, before I format my flash drive and therefore erase all the files, does this approach apply to removable USB flash drive?
You just saved my life and weeks of work!! This was perfect in every way.. Thank you very much!!
Eli. Thanks to this recuva and also to you. i can recover my delete files, so i'm so glad to have recuva..thanks alot bro :D
For those who are asking if it is possible to run Recuva from a flash drive... Here's the first link I found on Google -> www.piriform.com/docs/recuva/advanced-usage/running-recuva-from-a-usb-drive
You can do what's explained in here on another computer if you really are concern about deleting this/these file(s) and run Recuva on a flash drive, BUT, as Eli said, he personally do not care about it. I mean, when you delete a file, if you have something like 20-50% or more free space on your hard drive, the chances that this deleted file will be overwrite is really really low. And even if you have 5-10% free space, the chances are, again, low, but more, hum, "real".
And, for those who are asking if it is possible to run Recuva to restore files deleted because of a system restore... I'll be honest : Yes. :)
Again, I did a Google search (Google's your friend, it will not bite you, I promise), and here's the first link I found -> answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-files/find-picturesvideos-after-accidental-system/0235ae2a-2655-458f-b883-955c50897903
Excuse me, do you know a particular file recovering software that can completely scan my hard drive for files I have deleted a long time ago well over a year ago and recover them for myself? Is it true just because you delete the files whether on your pc screen or recycle bin does not mean the file is completely gone? For example, would it be possible to recover my files I deleted in 2016 and 2017?
hi mr Eli,
I have just seen you video about recovering files after deleting
but the problem I have not got anything back
and this problem has happened yesterday and I went straight away back to the bin and restored everything but I didn't get anything back
and I saw any recovering videos like yours and I downloaded the software and still nothing.
so now I am afraid that the folder I deleted is been overwritten ?????
so please can you tell me what to do ??
thank you
Do this approach apply to removable USB flash drive? where the link!
What will happen if you format a hard drive???
BUT on a Xbox?do I have to do the same thing as on this video?
@amraag2010 ...I think this works on 2003... Boot off the install CD... skip the first option to "Repair", you will then be given an option to install Windows or to Repair the current installation. Choose "Repair" from this screen... This worked from Windows NT though XP, I'm not sure when they stopped allowing it for servers... basically it just reinstalls all the important OS files. You have to redo all of your Windows Updates if it works, but otherwise your system should run like normal.
No... once they are over written they are gone... Unless you're NSA ... (I've heard they have the ability to recover data that has been overwritten up to 9 times, but it takes up to a year to do...)
If it's that important you can ship your drive off to a high end data recovery shop... they may be able to get the data back for you, but you'll be looking at a $2000+ bill...
if you can't get it back with a piece of software like Recuva...
Very informative and very entertaining. Very good teacher, wish I had him in school :)
@miniblech try using Recuva... It's free and should work for you
Does recuva recover every single file ? I accidentally deleted a folder of about 200 videos
Try using Recuva and see what happens...
thank you so much for recovering my precious memories!
What about all of the files with no preview available. Are those not recoverable?
were you in jail because thats a pretty orange shirt
Considering that shirt has the image of a computer on it, I'd imagine not.
Wow this comment is two years old, I don't even remember writing this comment.
This guy is the man, it's great how he tells you what to do and how to do it in such a way it's so easy to take in! You would have to be a goons child not to understand.
Thanks Eli your the best! My wife accidentally deleted 10 years of home videos trying to move them from one drive to another. thankfully she knew enough to STOP everything she was doing on the laptop. at this point we were able to recover 99% of the files . thanks again
Great Video Eli! However I had videos in one folder then when I wanted to add more videos and I accidentally put replace videos in the folder with the new ones. Because they had the same name they got replaced by the new ones, and I cant recovered them. I tried this method with recuva on the file but couldn't find them and instead just "recovered" the ones the I just added. Please help, would greatly appreciate it.
amazing course! my sony crashed before and didn't know about pointers details,I used the iskysoft data recovery, it worked and most of my data are saved.
This will be hell for me to do. I accidentally deleted a server world for minecraft...which I guess I could easily find...if I hadden't already deleted previous versions before hand. I had a look through and recovered all that was in the folder, but the mishmash of files from other versions makes it impossible to organise and set apart...even though I have my world back, it is still lost forever. And here's me remembering backing it up but nope...no back up.
This is because you've written a new partition table and, most likely, overwritten some of the data. You can try Photorec or a program like Foremost that will look for the data based on the headers and footers of the file itself. It's a bit more advanced and you'll have to research how to use them, but they can sometimes turn a "hopeless" situation around.
is it possible to recover the files which don't have preview
i like to now too
I deleted my file about an hour ago but it wasn't in there.. thanks anyway!
but i DELETED the DOWNLOADS,, ... the hall downloads,, and it never went even to the recycle bin,,, it jusf GOT DELETED,, how to RECOVER THAT
Please help me out
So... if Recuva tells me that my files had been overwritten with another file (it actually tells me what file is occupying the space of the older one) they're gone forever right?? I mean, there's no chance or hope to get them back right?? I'm asking this because recuva did find the files I deleted by accident but they're shown with a red icon beside them and the status says Unrecoverable... gosh I'm screwed... I clicked Recover either way, and the files are back but when i try to open any of them (They're videos) neither Wmp or any other video program will make them work... I'd really appreciate if you could answer my question Eli, I'm desperate and I really need some help. Thank you for this video though!
I installed WINDOWS 7 PROFESSIONAL...BIG MISTAKE..LOL--I forgot my password--paid to open it--all my files are deleted, pics, webcam, programs--just everything!!! So, is there anything I can do about it? Thanks---ps it also says I have WINDOWS *8 --which I didn't install. Thanks again for your help!! :0)
I was deleating some shit and i deleated a document i wasn't supposed to delet. Now this was a few days ago so i relised this today. Now i've tried this program. I've tried plenty others. I've tried way to fucking many things. I've spent hours upon hours today trying to recover this fucking document but i just can't I ran this program letting it to a deep fucking scan. I did minor scans of everything that i could imagine. Even shit i knew that document wasn't in. And it's not there. Can someone sugest a way of recovering this file that actually works? Because i still haven't found anything that helped me recover the document. It was a wordpad document wich i deleted. I'm giving up.... They say recovering dead files are so easy. Oh ah... Yeah, well i've tried everything these so called experts tell me to do and NOTHING has helped me.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO RECOVER DATA FROM C DRIVE, UN FORTUNATELY i have kept some photos in that drive, but system got crashed, have re-installed, then from c drive got .then i re installed with windows 7, then xp, now is it possible to recover that data from c drive from Ramakrishna,B.
I used Recuva top find my deleted windows outlook 7 emails. but couldn't open them by double clicking on the file/folder. Got an error message "not a valid Win 32 application" Tried using "Open With/C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start"Menu\Programs\Microsoft Office", but that didn't work either. Also tried dragging the file into Outlook inbox but go an error message, "file too big". What to do?
Well here is a sad story for you.I had to travel home for a family emergency,while there I took pictures on my new Samsung Tablet did not save the pictures,but they were on the Tablet,so I am now heading home with Tablet got on the flight and was told nothing about the flight locking all electronic devices until after they did this.Got off the flight got home sat back to see my photos,turn on the Tablet all pictures GONE.I am devastated.I went to the place today I bought my Tablet from the Tec could not retrieve my photos and I am so freaking mad upset nothing I could do.So is it true that if you don't save photos and this happens can they be retrieved? Is to late now but I wish it could have been solved for me.Regards BrokenHearted.
I have a HDD that came out of a WD20000-H1NC-00 networked drive. The drive wouldn't show up on my network, so I took it out of the case and connected it to my computer using a SATA to USB external powered adapter. In Windows XP it shows the drive as a 668 MB CD Drive (healthy) - in Windows 7 it shows the complete drive as being unallocated. I am using the program on my XP machine cause it's a desktop and I can leave it running for a day if needed vs. my laptop. When I plug it directly into my desktop as a extra data drive, my desktop runs slow and freezes. I am trying to do a scan using AOMEI Partition Assistant Edition - the Partition Recovery Wizard. to see it is shows any data on the drive (I'm not sure what file/format the drive is in that was used by the NAS drive case). When I choose the drive and doing a full scan it's stuck on 0% scan process. It's a 1 TB drive (930.86 GB total actual space). Any suggestions on how I can get the files that are on this drive copied to a new drive without deleting anything? Thanks.
Please Help... Deleted some larger (100M-1G) videos from my phone recently, tried several software tools but they couldn't find them (Recuva wouldn't select the phone as a scan option)... The other software was able to find some OLDER videos I deleted but not the ones from just recently? Is it possible they were too large that the phone DELETED deleted them as soon as I did? What can I do :/
Hi Elis First of all I wanted to say thank you for making your video's so easy to understand, I have an Apple mac and I want to recover deleted photo's from my phone I just wanted to ask would this program work on my phone? If not do you know of one that will which I can down load I have a Samsung Galaxy GT-S5830 I hope you can help!!!!
Didn't work for me because it ask me to pay for the full version if I wanted to recover the files it found....FREE? WHAT? Free to download so it will replace your files with theirs.....This Pisses Me Off....This is the second one that has done this to me. Time to fork out the money but not to the ones that took advantage just because they could. BTW I have a Mac....No Go Free
Get EaseUS Data Recovery if you're having trouble with Recuva. We have to admit, it sucks and it's a miracle Eli recovered anything with it. It's only free for 500 megabytes of recovery though, but hey, it works!
Hi, I have sony digital music player model NWZ-B153F. This comes as a walkman portable device and not as a USB device. How to access this and recover the data from this? Can you help please?
In my case I deleted 'my documents' several thousand files .
RECUVA found all of them ... but recovers them in a single group'
How can you restore maintaining folder structure ?
Hi, I used my external hard drive to build a System Recovery Drive for my Windows 8 and in doing so it wiped out all my files from my external hard drive (150 gig of my files). Is there any way to recover those files from my external hard drive that I lost?
I spent the last 2 days running the Recuva program and going through the recovery process. I have many documents recovered but they are not readable, looks to be in ASCII or something. How do I fix this problem? Thanks
My Windows 10 Desktop got a blue screen yesterday and I allowed it to scan and fix C: Drive. Then, I went to my account and everything on my desktop vanished and was restored to factory settings.
Now when I use this and deep scan my desired location it stops loading at 39%. I uninstalled and installed again and still the same thing.
Anything else I could do? Thanks
Hi, I don't know what I did to my computer some notice like the CRdrdll.files are missing. It would not let us use anything without this box opening up, no internet, no word, excel, any kind of programs. So my husband did a recovery back to its original state and we have nothing, no photos, documents, I had a ton of them, and nothing is working. I lost everything, how can we bring them up, or is it late cause he did a total recover on it. Please help!
i fucked up.. i deleted a folder containing 98gb of data... i was supposed to be able to restore from recycle bin, but i completely forgot about the storage limit within the bin, so it just sent everything straight to hell... thanks for this tutorial! i successfully recovered 61gb of that, so not all was lost.. so really, thank you!
p.s. im not a computer noob, i know about system recovery functions within my system, but i dont have that enabled.... it wasnt enabled when i installed my OS and i didnt do it manually, as i have never needed to worry about that.. i partition my hard drive, so that even if my OS fails, i can reinstall it, and not lose anything important, i run regular virus scans using Nod32 on the partition that contains the data, so its normally all good.. i just made 1 error, while testing an anomaly :D
Hello ELI . those pointers are done by operating systems ? . Let's say that i want to recover some data from a hard disk that used to running ubuntu . i've put it on slave and i'm running Recuva on Windows 7 . Recuva will be able to make the pointers on a hard disk that was running other operating system ? . Thx
P.S : Sorry if i find the aswer to the an another video but i have a short memory and i don't want to forget it :))
i really need someones help.
i formatted memory sd card in cmd process which was already corrupted .but after formatting sd card is working perfect.but when i trying to recover my data installing software like easyusdata recovery , handy recovery and test disk .i can't found files. please help me ,thank you
I was recovering 1 TB external drive, then I realize I should get another partition drive to save those recovery files and my local drives almost full. I think fristly we should get another empty drive with same size as the recovery drive or more.
(11:04) another thing we should consider is the amount of time for recovery, the 1 TB drive full recovery could cost almost 6 hours, so take your best time to start this task.
I don't install fetchy programs on my computer...
thank you so much !!! i recoved now something very important !!!
So, quick question, since deleting a file simply erases the pointer to its location, would a simple way to permanently clean a hard drive be to use a program such as crunch to generate a massive text file to overwrite any free space and then reformat? I have done this by accident by putting an extra 0 in the program :D
i can't find them :( i lost 2 folders of photos today, maybe like 2gb or so. they accidentally deleted when i tried to delete a onedrive folder and i recovered my whole recycling, the onedrive recycling, restored previous onedrive data, there was no folder restore data, have been looking through revuva for hours and nothing is popping up. no photo previews of the photos i want and since i dont know the specific photo names i just can't find them. i keep trying to convince myself that they don't just disappear and they got to be somewhere but its looking more and more like they are gone
ahh the ole ID10t error also known as P.B.K.A.C. error [problem between keyboard and chair]
I accidentally shift deleted my files on the desktop. When using Recuva software it wont show anything if i can on the desktop. I did not turn off my laptop, it recently happned. Can you please help me get back my files.
maybe because of some virus i again lost all the files i recovered yesterday (which i resotred on external hard disc), now i can't find them even in recuva deep scan (niether on hard drive nor on external hard disc). is there anyway to reach them? ofcourse i am taking care of the virus. thanks in advance.
BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY
Nice Info... My external hard disk is not getting detected at all on Recuva, while with other recovery software (i care) it is getting detected. I have concern with the pricing they are asking for price even more than the device cost. any help ??
I had a photos in Libraries > Pictures and i had formatted the the windows and later on after the formats completes and then i remembered shit what have i done ? So please computer GUY is this recuva gonna recover that ? Is there any possible ways to recover it ? please need a serious help Eli the Computer Guy
i formatted my external hdd, it was 2 tb capacity and the files was around 500 gb i then moved 1gb file in that hdd,is it possible it has been corrupted all my 500 gb data.
OK, Link right?
Does it mean i can use a different operating system to recover? How does a created file works on different operating system if its the operating system that creates links - how does the other OS recognize this?
Using testdisk I found the partion area where it might be what I am looking for but not sure what to do on it. Any help?
Could I stick recuva on a USB stick and run it from that to recover the files on a clients HD?
Well this is a bit strange, it can find things for a few days ago which are excellent, even some things from 2009! but something I deleted around 5 hours ago [Yeah I have been using all different types of programs] never shows up... I even have the same exact type of files that were deleted just a few minutes after/before that show up in every recovery program, but the actual ones I need are never even mentioned, not a glimpse of them on any program used... WTF
I thought he was broadcasting through a jail until I saw his shirt logo
A note on that ID10T error you mentioned at the end, your generalized statement that none of the recovery software will recover files that aren't deleted is not entirely correct. For example, scalpel, which is very unrefined, does not take note of these pointers that still exist. I even took a few minutes to confirm this before posting. In response to everyone here who restored/repartitioned/reset, pick a recovery software and give it a shot.
I know you're very busy Eli, but a response would be Killer. Even from others would be kewl. I moved an external green drive from its case(bad) into my desk top and it shows as a numbered drive and unallocated in disk Mngt. I thought I would have to initialize it in order to access, which I'm guessing was a mistake, but I'm hoping it's one I can overcome and retreive my data.
Are external drives automatically encrypted and using my desk top would be useless?
I was having trouble getting important files off of a drive as it was asking me to format it. I ended up getting GetDataBack, and I thought it worked without thoroughly checking the files it recovered. It actually only recovered half the files.
Without checking files, I then took that drive and formatted it, and I then installed Ubuntu. I just now reformatted it again.
It was about 30gb of files, Ubuntu was only like 5. I have tried all software and none will find files other than Ubuntu files.
If you ran the program correctly you should get a list of documents it sound that can be recovered from the pendrive. Once the list comes up make sure to check all of the documents or the documents you want and make sure that the Recvura will recover the files on files which is on your computer not on the pendrive otherwise the recovered files might overwrite the location of files you had on your pendrive and then you wont be able to recover those files
the first warning Eli... can't we just have the recuva in an external hard drive and run or scan the computer? do we really need to install the recuva software into the computer?
as soon as I connect hard drive from my dead toshiba lap top to a windows 7 think pad it happens a question:
do I want to recover this files. Right after asking me to format it - which will erase all of the data. how do i get around it?
I have a question yesterday I was puting pictures on my computer I got them all on there n then I decided put my videos on there I accidentally draged my vedios to my recycling bin from my phone n deleted them is there a way I can get them back ever again??
Hey, My external hard drive was stolen and reformatted the information is extremely important to me.
SOMEONE stole my 1TB WD hard drive and I assume typed the password in too many times and triggered a reformat. Before I had about 700GB of data used. Now it is blank.
All these different recovery software won't bring my files back. Is there any other way??
Thanks Dylan. Yeah that's the main hurtle, it doesn't recognize it as a drive. Update is that I did purchace a-"like" donor pcb board for the broken usb port but the only thing it did was load WD's smartware. Not sure if that helps or hurts. Will I have to initilize it to the point of giving it a drive letter then work on retrieval? Any help appreciated, thanks...
wen u say "not too damaged" are you resuming to viruses or worms r whatever? ,is it possible for logs and all that sort to be recovered from using this tool aswell? or is this jus serting txt.files? thanks eli
I did a factory reset on my 2011 desktop mac and forgot to backup my photos is there anyway I can retrieve those and lost files too!
this does not work. you can only use 100 mb free but when you have a bigger file like me you cant use it. you can i guess if you pull out your wallet....
If you are worried about installing it and over writing a document, just install it to a flash drive and run from there being you have the option to select which drive you are trying to scan for recovery
Hello. I did a portfolio in Microsoft Word and I thought that I saved it, however when I checked it was not the final draft. can it be recovered?
Also, I tried moving said drive into another enclousure and it's still giving the same results. What is the best approach / direction to head from here? I believe that it's about data recovery, but I have to access it first. Any help from anyone will be appreciated, thanks all, later, Killer...
I learn alot with your classes... i will like you to help me with my windows update failed files, i try to do what windows help advised you to do but still there and i can not fix it or deleted, thank you for your time and your help you are very good teacher...God bless you!
I have tried to use recuva a few times but has never managed to recover anything. Are there any other free recovering tools. I use to use something called jpeg dump for recovering jpg from flash media. I cant find the tool on my computers and a Google search brought nothing but rubbish up.
hello... if i was able to recover the MOV files but i played them showing they're corrupted.. can they be repaired?
You have to find a separate piece of software to fix the corruption... just Google "corrupted mov file"
I used stellar phoenix video repair and it tried to fix the videos but after the repair and saving it, it's still not playing and is still corrupted. from a window that popped up, it says i can upload it using PREFERENCEs to get free repair services. thanks so much eli for your response!!
what can i do if i connected my seagate external hard drive and i cannot see it any where. not on my finder, disk utility.
im so F**.
can you help?
Will Recuva allow you to recover deleted texts done on an Iphone? All I have is the hard drive that the Iphone was backed up to. The backups show up on the list of the Wise REcovery software but when I try to open them they are all gibberish. Help!
i tried to recover data from my SanDisk USB but couldn't. I have it on password lock too but removed the password so it can detect it. I can't get anything or didn't seem to be working. I just have an empty folder when I open the folder. I will try again.
Hi Bro ,
this is roshan , i have watched ur videos , its good job ,ur very helpful to me and all.... those who want to learn about computer , really i like the way ur explaining ,thank you...
my english is not good sorry for that....
I haven't done alot of deleted file recovery, but you should be able to point it at unallocated space as long as your machine recognizes it as a drive. If the one you're using does not, you may want to look into some others.
recuva aint working for me... stays stuck at 17 percent.. for days any ideas?
Many thanks to you Man. You really save me from trouble with my Advisor.
Does it recovers System32 Folder Files
I knew it wasn't too hard to recovered deleted files in Windows (except for overwrites, shredding, reformating, repartitioning, etc.), but I was told it was not possible in a Linux environment ?
I think Eli did say an overwritten file CANNOT be retrieved PERIOD. It is gone forever from existence. Recuva only recovers files that have lost their pointers but still exist within the HDD
I should also mention that these are extremely important server files that I absolutely need to recover. I'm really sorry to bother you with this, but it's extremely important to me and quite a few others.
hi there i really need u r help. one of my fren formatted my computer and all my files and pictures were removed if there anyway to get my pictures back plz help :(
Hello I am big trouble I accidently formatted a cd-r PLEASE HELP
I need to recover all that info it was work related. Is recuva good for CD-R ?? Or what can I do Please
hello, how does one recover the corrupted files? whenever i try to open them after recovery it gives a error message saying"format not supported"
i deleted a folder with 6 different video files in it and run recuva and it found one of the files but not the rest? so it does work but im not sure how it didn't find everything within the folder i deleted. but this dude knows his shit ill be subscribing.