Recovering deleted files

I don't know if this is at all true, but the rumor I have heard is that the updater that does that takes all your shit and puts it in an "old shit" directory somewhere. Meaning there is nothing to undelete, you just need to find where windows put it. Check for this option before trying anything undeletey.

>>183784
Yes,I have heard about that while browsing the different threads and whatnot about this topic,thing is
I have 2 drives -D which has additional free space equal to the deleted files(which is ~40 extra gigs) and
-C which doesnt have any extra space occupied
All of this means that they haven't gone anywhere,right?In order for them to exist they need to occupy space,right?
As extra evidence,the ntfs undelete from Ubuntu shows them as deleted files after a scan.

I appreciate the info,and wish it would be true,but all the signs point towards outright deletion.Nevertheless,due to you mentioning this,I will check again in order to be 200% sure

>>183798
Yep,the only reference to those files is them appearing in the ntfs undelete's scan

>>183798
>As extra evidence,the ntfs undelete from Ubuntu shows them as deleted files after a scan.
That's definitive. Sorry anon.

>All of this means that they haven't gone anywhere,right?In order for them to exist they need to occupy space,right?
Indeed.

>Is this the best course of action?
I think so, yes. But I don't know whether ntfsundelete is the best tool for the job; there are several undeletion tools and I don't know how good the different tools are. You may want to shop around. Something to consider in particular is filename support; some tools do a better job than others at reconstructing the filenames and directory structures of the deleted data.

>-C which doesnt have any extra space occupied
What do you mean, "extra space"?
Did you search for your data using the file searcher thingies in ubuntu?

>If i use Ubuntu's ntfsundelete,will I need free space on another drive equal to the size of the recovered files?
Yes. In particular, you *must not* try to recover the deleted files to the disk (well, partition) they were on originally; that will blow all attempts to recover anything.

>If so,since I don't have enough free space on my existing drives,will I have to connect an external HDD to meet those needs?
Well, you can recover the files from your D: disk to your C: disk, as long as there isn't anything on your C: disk you want to recover. (The general rule is that as soon as you write to a disk, the chances of recovering anything on it are reduced drastically.) Using an external disk is safer though, less chances to fuck up something along the way.

>>183798
Dude, it's only 40 gigs.

Just sit on it for the night, get yourself down to Gamestop, and buy an Xbox 360 hard disk, 60GB or larger, for $10.

Once you crack it open, there's an absolutely normal SATA disk inside, which you can use to copy your shit onto.

In the mean time, don't write shit to shit.

>>183818
Solid advice here,thanks

>>-C which doesnt have any extra space occupied
>What do you mean, "extra space"?
>Did you search for your data using the file searcher thingies in ubuntu?

Sorry for not being more explicit,what I meant to say was that if the deleted files were moved from D to C,the C drive would have to have 40 less GB of free space.The only change that happened was that it had MORE free space since files were deleted from C as well.
But I guess this point is moot now,since you agree that they were deleted,not moved

In regards to ntfsundelete,the reason i chose it is because I've seen it hailed as the best,safest method for recovery on the internet.The only other thing I have used for this in the past is Recuva,which did bring up a lot of unusable data
Also from what I've seen it does a near perfect job of keeping filenames,and directory structure is irrelevant in my case

>>183821
Thanks,is that the cheapest possible way?Am in Germany right now if it's in any way relevant

>>183858
>Thanks,is that the cheapest possible way?Am in Germany right now if it's in any way relevant
Be careful skimping on harddrives. If you buy an old $10 piece of crap, the odds of it breaking while you're working with it are substantial. A new one costs like $25 if you shop around for a very cheap one, $40 for the cheapest disk in the first store you can find.