deleted BDrebuilder movies help

[datman]

I don't how exactly I pulled this one off but managed to delete the whole drive with one mouse click. They were all encoded films. That's what hurts re-ripping them is not a problem it's the hours of encoding.

I know this is recoverable the drive has not been use since the mouse click so it's all still there. I tried a couple file recovery programs. I bought PCtools and it recovered 370 mpeg video files but I can't use that. So if anyone knows of software that can undelete the video files please post up the link.

I put this here because I know you guys understand my pain and I trust the members of this board.

[buzzqw]

http://www.runtime.org/ getdataback

trusty program

@jdobbs
an simple suggestion from a developer point of view: always check if delete command will erase a whole disk (starting from root)
if yes (dumb user setting's) don't do it..

BHH

[datman]

thanks buzz,

do you know if it will recover iso files intact?
The one I bought recovered 370 mpeg video and audio files and amounted to just over 2gigs of data I'm looking for about 350+ gigs. Good thing I can get a refund

[buzzqw]

it's meaningless if iso or mpeg or mkv
it's always a matter of cluster and byte ;)

just don't use this drive till you use the recovery, and don't recover on the same harddrive.. let program discover it and copy to another disk/partition

BHH

[datman]

My only reference is the title of each ISO. Unless I run the recovery save to a different drive and see how that works? Judging from these that I tried it’s a bit of a gamble. I have half a mind to pull the drive and take it somewhere.

[jdobbs]

http://www.runtime.org/ getdataback

trusty program

@jdobbs
an simple suggestion from a developer point of view: always check if delete command will erase a whole disk (starting from root)
if yes (dumb user setting's) don't do it..

BHH There is nowhere in BD-RB that you can delete a drive full of stuff with one mouse-click. So it would be hard to fix something that doesn't exist. About as close as it comes is clearing the working directory -- and you always have to confirm before that can happen.

[datman]

There is nowhere in BD-RB that you can delete a drive full of stuff with one mouse-click. So it would be hard to fix something that doesn't exist. About as close as it comes is clearing the working directory -- and you always have to confirm before that can happen.

what I did was I was updating a shortcut folder (adding new ones) and highlighted all files to create shortcuts and click delete and they were gone a few went to recycle bin but most were just lost. It was insant no noise from the drive. The directories must have been removed.

If I can't find a program that will pull them up as titled I'm lost. The drive mostly movies and it was full so anything pulled up would be the right data but I don't see how to get back in the correct ISO files.

[b66pak]

you could try also recuva (for free)

http://www.piriform.com/recuva
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[Emulgator]

active undelete ($) is what I use for software-based HDD recovery and it helped me more than 5 times now with different drives.
Once getting all 400GB back after inserting one of my 48-bit-LBA addressed drives into a bleak controller that could only handle 28-bit LBA...
Others were customer's HDDs close to extinction. I can recommend this one. PCTools did not help in these cases.

In your case the files (better: the clusters that held the video data) should be still there,
just make sure that no app can write anything onto that HDD.
Disconnect, get recovery software and only after installing this software, reconnect the drive,
connect another empty drive with the same or bigger size to hold the recovered files,
do the scan and finally recover to the empty NTFS drive.

Recycle bin can hold only files up to a certain size (which you can specify)
otherwise the files exceeding recycler size (I guess your missing video files exceeded this limit)
will not be flagged as deleted (D) and thus be not recyclabe.
Their indices will be taken off the MFT, which will in consequence declare these clusters as free,
but content is still there as long as no write attempts to these clusters are made.

Besides of that ISOBuster and BadCopyPro can do some nice guesses on different issues on optical discs.

[Furiousflea]

No program I've tried has ever been able to recover files of the sizes we're talking about here. (5GB+)...

I've tried loads and tested all manner of situations after deleting a few ISOs and bluray folders by accident in the past.

(virtually no writes to hd before attempts}

[datman]

No program I've tried has ever been able to recover files of the sizes we're talking about here. (5GB+)...

I've tried loads and tested all manner of situations after deleting a few ISOs and bluray folders by accident in the past.

(virtually no writes to hd before attempts}

This is the conclusion I came up with. What was recovered so fragmented it would be more work trying to get it reorganized. I might as well just re-rip and encode.

Interesting I test deleted a 4.3g movie in a file (not ISO) I was able to recover. So may being in ISO format made impossible to recover