File recovery

Pnut · Post by **Pnut** » November 29th, 2009, 11:29

I`ve just installed win 7 to my pc and have tried to put back my old files but they all appear to be corrupted

Does anyone know of any decent file recovery/ fixing software?

Post by **Dog Pants** » November 29th, 2009, 11:51

The majority of them need to be installed before the file is deleted, but there are a few out there that don't. Of course if you've installed a new OS on the same drive there's a good chance they'll be overwritten and unrecoverable (without expensive forensic equipment at least). Have a google for undelete software, look for ones that don't need to be pre-installed, find a free trial, and pray. In my experience I've only ever recovered deleted stuff maybe 20% of the time, the rest of the time it's been lost.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » November 29th, 2009, 12:14

I think you'll need to elaborate on; what you've done, what you're trying to do and what these old files are?

Although if you have done what Dog Pants describes you're pretty much fucked.

Pnut · Post by **Pnut** » November 29th, 2009, 13:27

Am trying to get my DA:O saves back on. They are physically there but game says that files are corrupted.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » November 29th, 2009, 13:33

Probably not actually corrupted then.

Post by **FatherJack** » November 29th, 2009, 14:43

They may be "owned" by the account of the old installation. Right-click a few and choose Properties. Check they're not read-only and on the security tab take give the current user Full Control of them.

Pnut · Post by **Pnut** » November 29th, 2009, 16:29

All are marked read only, have tried taking that off but it just reappears when i go back in to it. Current user already has full control. Have just noticed that the save files in game all end with .das, is this normal?