Today I was downloading some very large files (~700Mb each) using a Microsoft tool called the File Transfer Manager. I kept on eye on the progress and was on my fourth file when the computer froze for some completely unknown reason. I gave the machine 10 minutes to get over itself but this didn’t change anything. Anyway, I hit the reset button and waited for it to restart itself. After it was finished booting I looked in the download folder to see if I managed to get the last file through before the freeze and to my horror there was only ONE of the 700Mb files in the folder.

I have been a big fan of Diskeeper from the Diskeeper Corporation for a while now so I thought I’d give their Undelete 2009 a go to see if I could recover around 1.5Gb of downloaded files. The emergency undelete can be run straight from CD so you don’t have to install it on the machine and risk overwriting the files you are trying to recover.

I ran the emergency recovery process and pointed to my download folder. It quickly found the files I feared I had lost and gave me the option to recover the files. By default it wanted to copy the recovered files to a folder called “Recovered_Files” which I left on the desktop. After a few minutes, the program said it had recovered the files. I crossed my fingers, doubled clicked the folder and inside were my files in pristine condition! YES! Now I don’t have to wait while I re-download that 1.4Gb again. Well done Diskeeper Corp.