What's a good file recovery program?

[Red Squirrel]

I know I can find tons of them if I google, but lot of them are scams, or false advertising, they say they're free then they expect you to pay to actually restore.

Looking for something free that will work on FAT32 and NTFS. It does not HAVE to run on windows, I'm open to something that runs on Linux, in fact my preferred choice would be something command line Linux that way I can hookup a drive to my Linux server and do a recovery that way.

Someone I know just accidentally deleted a bunch of files, and of course had no backups. so I'm hoping to help them, and figured it's probably something good to have handy anyway.

 

[shimpster]

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-data-recovery-file-undelete-utility.htm

 

[Dude111]

This is the one i have and i love it

www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html

 

[masteryoda34]

have used Recuva with success in the past

 

[Red Squirrel]

This is the one i have and i love it

www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html

Oh right, I totally forgot about that one. I've used it before. I like the fact that it's stand alone so I can just put it on a USB stick and restore the files to that stick, or to an external hard drive.

 

[atrus.eoa]

This is the one i have and i love it

www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html

This was exactly what I was going to recommend. My friend spent a semester abroad and then the day she got back deleted all of her pics accidently...so I used this to restore them all.

 

[Dude111]

Ya it is QUITE good!

 

[qft]

Recurva is good... it's by Priform, the folks that make CCleaner and it's free.