

- #DOES NTFS UNDELETE WORK ON SHIFT DELETED FILES SOFTWARE#
- #DOES NTFS UNDELETE WORK ON SHIFT DELETED FILES FREE#
This can cause GRT Deleted Files Recovery, or any other hard drive software to just not work with some USB hard drives, & the only solution is to try something else, either hardware, software, or both. Worse, these sorts of problems can & do vary from one PC/laptop to the next, depending on their internal USB hardware & things like the chips used. An external, USB hard drive housing may work perfectly well for normal storage, but cause all sorts of problems, have very serious compatibility issues if/when you try to use software designed to work with internal hard disks. First off USB drives are dependent on their electronics providing the USB interface, & those electronics vary widely. While USB drives usually look & act like any other drive when you're using Windows' Explorer, they're actually quite different & can have problems when/if you try to treat them as a normal, internal drive. there are usually questions & comments re: USB drives whenever GOTD hosts an app that has anything to do with drives &/or storage, like today's GRT Deleted Files Recovery NTFS.

Many just use dd itself - from Wikipedia: "dd is a common Unix program whose primary purpose is the low-level copying and conversion of raw data." When/if the problem is software won't work with the USB storage device, just take that data & put it somewhere else where the software will work.

#DOES NTFS UNDELETE WORK ON SHIFT DELETED FILES FREE#
Another free app that looks promising to me is DataRescue's DD freeware, drdd.exe. I've gotten Acronis software to work with some but not all devices, & those that wouldn't did work with the free ODIN. If/when you get into a situation where you want to try recovering files from some USB device, & the software you want to use won't work with that device, copy its contents in the form of an image of everything - not just used data, restore to a hard drive partition, & scan that with the recovery software. An app like GRT Deleted Files Recovery (NTFS) may or may not work with your device & PC. And again things vary from one brand/model of USB stick to the next. I've got a couple of USB sticks that show up in some Paragon apps as having 4 partitions instead of 1, but at least they show up - several other hard drive programs/utilities don't show any of my USB sticks at all.

USB flash memory devices are most often worse.
