File Recovery Programs

[thejadedmonkey]

Hello all!

I had a 40 gig hard drive laying around, with a 7 gig partition on and the rest blank space..and when I formatted the blank space, it also housed my 7 gig partition that had a very important ISO on it..

The partition data hasn't been touched, I just need the boot record to acknowledge that the file's there.

For XP, I have a freeware program called Restoration that works wonderfully for this sort of stuff, but on OS X I have nada, and I'm not about to pay for a program to restore the ISO. That's just...hypocrytical!

Anyone have anything?

 

[yellow]

There's no free file recovery programs for OS X. Only pay ones.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

There's no free file recovery programs for OS X. Only pay ones.

Could somebody please tell me that this guy isn't joking

 

[yellow]

I am not joking. Look for yourself.

VersionTracker search for "file recovery", note the 2 "freeware" ones are actually for file erasing and a "Mac Help" widget and are not, in fact, file recovery apps.

The same search at MacUpdate.

There are NO free file recovery apps for Mac OS X.

 

[live4ever]

You can try out DataRescue first to see if it can find the lost file - but you have to pay to recover anything greater than 5MB I believe.

I guess it depends on how important the data is - some people's files are irreplaceable and are absolutely worth the small fee for a software solution.

 

[yellow]

You could try dd_rescue if you're well versed in using the CLI and want to build a Linux proggy.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Ugh..that sucks. I hardly know DOS, let along Terminal or Linux... Thanks for the help though, and uph...that just sucks.