file recovery software? (actually Folder recovery)

[venm11]

I accidentally deleted a folder structure via a network share and am trying to recover it. The problem is - besides the fact that windows has no way to do this - the recovery programs recover individual files and dump them all in one folder regardless of original path.

Any advice on this issue? I've tried reconstructing sub-directories and putting all the files back, but it's a terrible, error-prone way to go about it.

 

[MaelstromOC]

I haven't had to do this in quite a few years, but there is software out there that will scan an entire drive (this will take a lot of time as what I used was bit by bit discovery) but when it finished I was presented with several previous partitions and their associated directory structure. I can't, for the life of me, remember what the software was called though It was definitely the most friendly and intuitive recovery program I've ever used though. One thing, though, you needed another drive to copy the files/directories to so that you wouldn't be overwriting anything on the drive you were recovering from.

I would imagine they've made great strides since then, however, because it was definitely about 7 years ago.

 

[x509]

I haven't had to do this in quite a few years, but there is software out there that will scan an entire drive (this will take a lot of time as what I used was bit by bit discovery) but when it finished I was presented with several previous partitions and their associated directory structure. I can't, for the life of me, remember what the software was called though It was definitely the most friendly and intuitive recovery program I've ever used though. One thing, though, you needed another drive to copy the files/directories to so that you wouldn't be overwriting anything on the drive you were recovering from.

I would imagine they've made great strides since then, however, because it was definitely about 7 years ago.

I had this problem once and a guy I knew came over with a CD with a self-booting version of Windows. I think it was something like "Active," but I'm going on memory here.

Good luck.