This is a long shot I know, but does anyone know any good preferably free NTFS undelete that can recover files from a 2008 Standard edition formatted NTFS drive.

The files were deleted today, and we have tried a number of tools but none can find any deleted files. I suspect its because of the NTFS version used to format the drive, the files are not on the system partition.

I've used GetDataBack from Runtime software before:

http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

Only probelm is, you have to buy it before you can recover anything.

Edited 4 January, 201115 yr by rk696

Doesnt 2k8 have previous versions switched on by default.. im sure ive used it before.

not sure, but we kind of gave up trying. We did find a couple of trial versions that allowed us to do full scans, and could only locate a small number of files. We recovered those and most of the rest exist elsewhere, just need to sift through several hundred GBs of word docs and pdfs to find them. I wont go into the cause, and why the easiest resolution to the problem did not work.

I have used Freeundelete before with good results. From here:

http://www.officerecovery.com/

.... why the easiest resolution to the problem did not work.

backups not working :p

I have used "freeundelete" from Recoveronix Ltd in the past with good results.

Edited 7 January, 201115 yr by mbames