Hi:

A friend of mine accidentally deleted many hours worth
of multimedia files from his hard drive and wants to
recover his work. The files were of his parent's wedding
and he was working on them feverishly to finish in time
for their 50th wedding anniversary this Saturday. Instead
of backing up his files, the files were deleted.

He was using the 16-bit WINFILE application in Windows 95
so the deleted video software directory, the deleted data
subdirectory, and the files are NOT in the recycle bin.
He did not have Norton, or other disaster prevention software
installed.

So he needs an after-the-fact data recovery utility.

The only product I can come up with is LOST and FOUND
(cf: http://www.powerquest.com/product/laf/index.html),
but I have no experience with this, nor any other current
recovery software on the market.

Can anyone share any working experience with LOST and FOUND,
or can recommend any other recovery software for this task?

The objective is to recover data files which were two deleted
subdirectories deep on the D: drive. Once the damage was done,
no other work, including recovery attempts, was attempted, so
the files and directory structure are not overwritten.

Your prompt replies and assistance is greatly appreciated.
I would also appreciate a BCC: to me personally. Thanks, in
advance.

Regards,

John Chin

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