Recover Deleted Pics!
 

I've posted this nifty little tool at a few forums and it's always been a success, so I thought I'd put it up here.

DIR is a program that finds digital media and restores it after it's been deleted...even after a format. It can also recover pics deleted on flash cards when they're hooked up as a removable disk. Lend your cam to some hot lesbian girls and use this to get the goods off the formatted flash card! ;)

one caveat: make sure you have TONS of HDD space for this, at least 3 GB. this thing will find pieces of media and grab a large sector of the HDD to preserve it. This can end up with jpgs that are 100MB in size, but it usually just finds the right pics. It also finds wavs and AVIs that are deleted.

This has limited transfer so if this goes down lemme know and I will put it up elsewhere. This program is now a pay program. This is the last free version of it, and is not warez.

DIR



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just found a very similar freeware program online in case the mirrors for this program becomes unavailable.


http://www.z-a-recovery.com/download.htm

Bet this will be useful for everyone who gets Mydoom-F this week.

Paedophiles beware! Convicting you just got easier!

actually this is small potatoes compared to what they use to search PCs for criminal activity. This is good for those "oh shit!"moments when you delete a whole folder of pr0n pics, or you wanna see what pics your friend took on the cam you just borrowed off him (or her). ;)

link seems dead :(

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link doesn't work for me, but i gave it to a friend and it worked for him so he sent it to me :-/

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Works fine for me.

Question: Does this program just do pictures of .jpg or can it do other image files aswell?

it handles bmp gif jpg wav and avi. I ahven't used it in a while myself so I can't remember if there are any more. It's an interesting experience...you will find pics you didn't remember ever dling, and pieces of program UIs. I found the dolphin pics of VCD Gear's UI on a DIR run.


And btw that host allows like 5 MB transfer ever 3 hours or something like that. It's shit but it's free and I've had it over a year now. Not bad for free. ;)

ok what about a card 128 mb in size and you have added pictures to it and taken them off multiple times, would it work in this situation?

I doubt you will be able to read images from a card that you have have writen over many times.

Holo: If you need a host, I can upload it to my space if you have bandwidth issues.

well that's just a free host. I have no space I own. If you wanna mirror it by all means.

I also dont' think you could recover something that had multi overwrites on a flash card, but it should work if you accidentally format your card and need to recover the pics. I've never tried it on my cam yet tho.

Here is a mirror. I'm pretty sure it doesn't have a limit on bandwidth and is also free. :D
No domain though.

Link Here.

I just found a very similar freeware program online in case the mirrors for this program becomes unavailable.


http://www.z-a-recovery.com/download.htm

I'm topping this as I'm using it right now to recover some pics I erased off my HDD and I needed to get them off my formatted camera card. Perhaps it will be of some use to new members.

Anyone know of a free tool like this for mp3s? I did something immensly foolish last night, and now my mp3 collection is gone.

http://www.collina.us/files/REST2514.htm

if that doesnt work just google for REST2514.exe. handy little tool to have

good god. its amazing how much shit it there.

holy crap, this thing is recovering pictures I thought I'd lost 2 formats ago!!! (and very sad I was a lost them too)

Hehhe... I guess not many of you use a disk wiper. Nice idea for the recover tool, though.

I have 2 drives on my computer one that I ee'd and one that I didn't and the difference is remarkable EE = god.

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Didn't know it yet...

THX very much , helped me a lot,

great find

Well... this thing was working great. 4% and over 6000 pictures found, but since it was taking forever, I decided to take a nap. When I came back, My computer was shut down(dunno if someone did it or if it did it itself.) I try to start it back up, and right as the BIOS starts the operating system up, I get an error: NTLDR is missing Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart

Any clue what happened?

p.s... Not the computer Im using right now, obviously... a different one..

[edit] Eww I had bad spelling...

It should only recover pics not delete or tamper with system files...perhaps it ate all your C drive space and windows cannot load? I have several partition so I generally never run out of C drive space so I dunno.

Can anyone explain how this works? And is there a way to permanently delete these from a flash card?

Munku, a low level format should get rid of anything to the point that a simple tool like that cannot recover the data from. By low level, I mean wiping the drive by writing over ever bit with a 0.

typically when you delete a file, to save time it doesn't delete the data, but just flags it as "deleted" so when another program needs the space it writes over the data. This leaves many, many bits of files around in the left over space after the fact.

if you want to make sure people you know cant get into it I would suggest finding a tool that will let you format it by wiping it with all zeros. It will take much longer, but a small tool like that shouldn't be able to recover the data.

This is how the FBI recovers data.
For example, when you delete something from your PC and from the Recycle Bin, it simply deletes the path to it. Eventually, the data gets written over again. What "wipers" do is go over every bit of code with 0's, several times.

This works great for flash cards and removable media. I would not recommend it for a hard drive though. It picks up everything, and I do mean everything. This includes everything that your browser has cached while surfing the net and html based application interfaces you may have run. The stuff it turned up on my PC before I finally shut it down was amazing.

To be really effective, a tool like this needs to have some method of excluding things you don't want it to find. Like everything in the My Pictures directory or the Temporary Internet File directory.

Other than that though, it was cool. Thx.

I know this is plenty late, but I just came across File Scavenger, I use the 3.0 registered version and it recovered stuff that other programs couldn't, it's not 100% accurate, but it helped me save some long lost photos.

Fascinating - I never knew any of that. I might run that on my old hard drives just for the sake of seeing what's floating around.

I used both DIR and ZA (Zero Assumption) last week after reformatting and losing most of my photography files. Both only recovered deleted files, not files that were wiped out by the recovery set-up. And they recovered over 44,000 total...this included almost every avatar ever seen on this pc, every ad and pieces of ads, graphics from games the kids played, general garbage and corrupted files. Neither recovered text files or docs.
If you ever have a need to use them, be prepared for a LOT of work. The recovered files do not come back titled-they come back as image 1,2,3,4, etc.
I mourned the loss of my work, although I was glad I had those programs to at least recover some things that luckily I had viewed more than once and therefore got back. But it took 12 days to sort thru.

Anyone else ever use a program called Clonespy?

It will find duplicate files (not necessarily of the same name--by CRC) and ask which one you want to delete.

Freeware. It's saved me a lot of time.

CloneSpy no, But I've used DupeMaster successfully.