Looking for good file recovery program.

[elkinm]

A friend of mine accidentally deleted some needed files and needs my help recovering them.

I found Restoration, a freeware program but I am not sure how good it is. Recover4all I can use to find files but I need to buy it to restore.

My friend can pay for it but I want to make sure that the program is good before buying.

Any other free or pay programs would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[elkinm]

Recovery with restoration worked but some files were partially or completely overwritten.

Some damaged files were in .WPD word perfect format. I don't know the wpd format to well. Is there a way to see partial wpd files as plain text or some other way to access the partial document.

Thanks

 

[tami]

there's a great program out there called runtime's getdataback (for FAT / NTFS).

link

 

[shortylickens]

I use file-scavenger.
It costs 30 bucks but is well worth it.
The demo only lets you look at files that can be recovered.
That program found stuff on a volume that Windows Disk Manger said was corupted and unreadble.