help!!

[spritedreams.livejournal.com]

so my boyfriend managed to delete a large portion of his data on one of his partitions and i was wondering if anyone knows how to recover deleted data on a fat32 partition (under windows 2000). (he also has an onboard raid controller and has his drives set up with raid 0, i dont know if that is relevant info or not). i havent used windows in over 3 yrs, so i'm at a complete loss as to what to do, so if anyone has any suggestions, i would really appreciate it. thanks!

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[wildkard.livejournal.com]

for myself... I have access to software called GetDataBack in both NTFS and FAT32... it works well enough aside from the fact that it needs to be installed in a windows OS. Other than that I've also used Recover4All (it was a previous program I had access to... before things became NTFS environment).

The main problem with data recovery software is that none of it is free (If someone ever sees a freeware proggy... tell me). Most have demos telling you what it CAN recover... but to actually do the recovery takes a license which usually costs > $30 at the minimum... and not uncommon to be realistically more like > $70

[spritedreams.livejournal.com]

ok thanks, i will check out those programs. do they run in windows or dos?

[wildkard.livejournal.com]

As I mentionned, the only thing unfortunate about them is they require a WINDOWS install.
(if it were up to me I'd prefer a method via 'boot disk' that doesn't require a full installed OS... there *are* a few that work like this; but none that I have access to readily)

And if neither of those 'works for you'...

There are 173 other choices of software from download.com alone (http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=data+recovery&tg=dl-2001&search=+Go%21+)

[oddball42.livejournal.com]

you could also see if win2k will recognise undelete (from the command prompt)

[spritedreams.livejournal.com]

thanks. i dont think that it does, but i'm sure i can find that command somewhere.

[psmylie.livejournal.com]

Might as well check the obvious first... did you see if the data was in the recycle bin? I know, it's a dumb suggestion, but it never hurts to ask.
Otherwise, you might try either undelete, or try buying or downloading some sort of data recovery tool. I think Norton and Executive Software have tools like that, and you might find something for free from download.com, but I've never had to try it out personally so I'm not sure how well they work.

[spritedreams.livejournal.com]

haha, no, it was not in the recycle bin.

[psmylie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured you already checked there. Sorry, I wasn't trying to sound like a smartass :)

Did you have any luck with undelete, or with an undelete utility?