My colleague from our lab is working on damaged NTFS file system analysis. This is needed for our new project currently in development.
Recently, we thought it would be nice to release some free utility based on the developing library. And so we did.
A couple of weeks for GUI development and an hour for a web site and here it is — a free NTFS Undelete utility.
It should work on any NTFS file system from Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista, and as far as I know it is the only free undelete software that is distributed in a different bundles — in ready for burning ISO image, ZIP archive and windows installer.
Hope people will enjoy it.
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7 Comments
aleste81 · September 27, 2007 at 2:10 am
Well in DOS times you could Undelete files “in place”, in the exact same disk space they were before.
Fedir Nepyivoda · September 27, 2007 at 6:15 pm
That was DOS with FAT
Now it’s Windows with NTFS ;-)
In FAT file system, deleted files were just marked as “deleted”, and to undelete a file all we needed to do is to change a single character in its name. In NTFS, file deletion affects many structures on the disk, so it is not so easy to correctly restore a deleted file… If even possible, considering that NTFS is a proprietary file system.
James Bryant · January 20, 2008 at 5:50 pm
My wife is organising a large music course with master classes from the Alberni Quartet and somehow managed to delete all the records (and backups) of who was playing with whom, who had paid, and all room reservation, arrival and departure details.
NTFS Undelete recovered it all and we are MOST grateful. My only question is how to use the ISO image file – having tried and failed I installed the software on a memory stick instead.
Best wishes and thanks – James Bryant
lancelot · April 21, 2008 at 6:17 am
you guys made a great tool that saved my day
ntfsundelete
excellent
adam · April 16, 2010 at 2:53 pm
This Program works great thankyou very much
atesin · July 24, 2012 at 10:28 pm
what happens with ntfs undelete???
what happens with FREE msi, iso and zip formats? .. with the old website?
Fedir Nepyivoda · July 25, 2012 at 11:18 am
NTFSUndelete is now maintained and owned by other company.
We are not related to ntfsundelete.com any more.