Recovering Recording

[craigba]

Hi guys,

Apologies if this post is in the wrong place , but it seems right to me

I have a friend who was recording a speech with NCH Swift and the machine was rebooted. Once booted up, the recording was gone. I am trying to help him out by recovering it.

My thinking is this, when recording with NCH Swift it creates a temp file (on the Hard drive). This gets deleted with the reboot, but there should be a file there to be recovered (unless the file was stored in RAM). If this is the case how can I recover it. I have recovered the files on the HD (but there are over 100 000) and they don't have the same file extension. I have tried based on file size, but from experience I know that a 20 kb pic is recovered as a 2 mb file (perhaps it "pads" when it recovers). What is an easier way to check for the recovered file. Does anyone have advice from your wide spectrum of experience?

Thanks,

Craig

 

[francoislr]

First thing, do not use the hard drive you want to recover from. plug it out. Then get another hard drive you want to restore to. Then find software that restores files and such, and restore from the hard drive the data might be on to the "another" drive. NEVER restore to the drive you are restoring from. That process alone could wipe out the important data.

Okay, that out of the way, my suggestion is, tell your friend to rerecord the speech. Unless it's 4 hours of recording it will probably be easier to just do it again. If it is such a long speech, your friend deserves the loss. If you don't save, no sympathy. I used to use Adobe Audition. Whenever this happened, when you open it up it would restore the project you were working on.

 

[ponder]

check by date & time?

 

[craigba]

Thanks guys.
I used my other HDD to recover - so that's cool. It was actually a speech he gave live, so can't rerecord it
He wasn't the one who pulled the plug (literally)
The date and time won't work as it gives the file's Date and Time as the date and time recovered...
Unless there is another way to check for the "real" create time?

 

[craigba]

Any ideas on this, people?