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Conrad198
 Post subject: Accidently Deleted MKV Files On A 2TB Western Digital HDD
PostPosted: November 11th, 2010, 5:39 
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It's an external hard drive and was nearly full of MKV files when I accidently deleted all of them. I'm not too proud of it and now I'm trying to get these back.

I haven't written anything to the hard drive after this happened, so I'm assuming the data is still there and recoverable, but how? Is there a way to just recreate the file structure and have access to all of the files again?
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DR-Kiev
 Post subject: Re: Accidently Deleted MKV Files On A 2TB Western Digital HDD
PostPosted: November 11th, 2010, 6:13 
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Conrad198 wrote:
It's an external hard drive and was nearly full of MKV files when I accidently deleted all of them. I'm not too proud of it and now I'm trying to get these back.

I haven't written anything to the hard drive after this happened, so I'm assuming the data is still there and recoverable, but how? Is there a way to just recreate the file structure and have access to all of the files again?


What was the File system?

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Conrad198
 Post subject: Re: Accidently Deleted MKV Files On A 2TB Western Digital HDD
PostPosted: November 11th, 2010, 8:47 
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DR-Kiev wrote:
Conrad198 wrote:
It's an external hard drive and was nearly full of MKV files when I accidently deleted all of them. I'm not too proud of it and now I'm trying to get these back.

I haven't written anything to the hard drive after this happened, so I'm assuming the data is still there and recoverable, but how? Is there a way to just recreate the file structure and have access to all of the files again?


What was the File system?


NTFS
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DR-Kiev
 Post subject: Re: Accidently Deleted MKV Files On A 2TB Western Digital HDD
PostPosted: November 11th, 2010, 10:08 
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Conrad198 wrote:
DR-Kiev wrote:
Conrad198 wrote:
It's an external hard drive and was nearly full of MKV files when I accidently deleted all of them. I'm not too proud of it and now I'm trying to get these back.

I haven't written anything to the hard drive after this happened, so I'm assuming the data is still there and recoverable, but how? Is there a way to just recreate the file structure and have access to all of the files again?


What was the File system?


NTFS


When deleting big files in NTFS all its entries is removing from runlist too (to release MFT) .

Bad news :( :
If your files were fragmented (99% sure) , you couldn't recovery it by standart method or in raw mode too.

Good news :) :
mkv video files has unique block-counters (as i saw) , so if you be able write script (some programm) , you could to "glue" all file fragments by its counters.

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Conrad198
 Post subject: Re: Accidently Deleted MKV Files On A 2TB Western Digital HDD
PostPosted: November 11th, 2010, 16:09 
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DR-Kiev wrote:
Conrad198 wrote:
DR-Kiev wrote:
Conrad198 wrote:
It's an external hard drive and was nearly full of MKV files when I accidently deleted all of them. I'm not too proud of it and now I'm trying to get these back.

I haven't written anything to the hard drive after this happened, so I'm assuming the data is still there and recoverable, but how? Is there a way to just recreate the file structure and have access to all of the files again?


What was the File system?


NTFS


When deleting big files in NTFS all its entries is removing from runlist too (to release MFT) .

Bad news :( :
If your files were fragmented (99% sure) , you couldn't recovery it by standart method or in raw mode too.

Good news :) :
mkv video files has unique block-counters (as i saw) , so if you be able write script (some programm) , you could to "glue" all file fragments by its counters.


Is there software that you can recommend to try recovering these files?
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loomy
 Post subject: Re: Accidently Deleted MKV Files On A 2TB Western Digital HDD
PostPosted: November 12th, 2010, 14:45 
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I don't know if his reply is a joke or not. There are uncountable file recovery programs out there. Some are even FREE. Try Recuva.
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