file recovery

[excalibur3]

I was installing a new version of a program that hooks up to an instrument I use and it over write the data results folder with an empty version. Is there a way to retrieve it? I know about certain recovery programs out there but the ones that I've tried can only find jpeg, movie, or files with defined extensions. The extensions are .mtrx, which are non standard. I'm running windows xp and I'm not sure what the most powerful version (free?) to use for this purpose.

 

[jcmuse]

i use ERD Commander 2005 and it seems to work well. It is a bootable windows environments that has a file restore feature. I'm really not sure about file extensions, but i believe you can specify. you may try downloading the trial before actually buying to make sure it can actually get to your file. until then i'd avoid using your computer.

 

[TG2]

getdataback from runtime.org will probably work, but to recover the files, you have to buy it, although I bought it a few years back and its paid for itself several times over when fixing other folks PC's

 

[SinNisTeR]

another vote for getdataback. I used pc-inspector's something or other and it didn't work at all..

 

[IamDavid]

Recover My Files FTW