[Discussion] Help- File Recovery

[brueggemail-list at yahoo.com]

I screwed up.  I accidently deleted several subdirectories on an 
HPFS partition and it would be nice if I could recover those files. 
They were photos I had just copied over from a CF card and were 
too new to be on any backup yet.  The CF card has been reused and 
any chance of recovery from that are gone.

I have a copy of Gammatech utilities which claims file and directory 
undelete but it doesn't see the directory I deleted, and doesn't 
show any of the files that were there either.  It does find files to 
undelete in directories it does see, so maybe it can't undelete 
directories after all.  It's a pretty old copy, version 1.2 I think.  
Is there a better utility or program to try and recover these files?

The photos are important enough I'd like to keep after it until all 
hope is lost.  The partition is one I only use for photos, so 
hopefully the files are still there and haven't been overwritten 
(I haven't saved anything to it since the delete).  I would be 
willing to buy a utility like DFSee to recover them, can anyone tell 
me if it's capable of recovering directories?  Looking through the 
command reference I see a few commands for *file* undelete but 
nothing about directories, or is that even important?  I really don't 
care about the directory structure, I'd be happy to sift through any 
recovered files and re-sort them.

Mark Brueggemann
Albuquerque, NM