WAV File Recovery Windows 98 95 (Undelete)

OK So you've recorded the ACDC concert, but when you went to normalise it the computer ran out of space and truncated the file. (Normalising makes a second copy.) It then encoded the truncated file, leaving you 20 minutes short.

Most likely the original wav data is still there somewhere, near the end of the drive.

Here's how to find out.

Firstly, download Recover98. (Ignore the fact that it will only do 10kb retrievals when unregistered, that doesn't apply to cluster saving..)

Second, find a drive with enough free space (not the same drive you lost the file on).

Go to File - Save Clusters and choose a suitable range

(In this case 1,001,630 is 4GB, I want the last 600MB or so so I entered 851,385) and dumped it to a network drive.

Now you will need CoolEdit96 or a similar program.

Find the file that you dumped, drag and drop it on to the CoolEdit screen.

In most cases the above will work OK.

You should then get a progress indicator, and hopefully not run out of hard disk space. (I did, ended up burning the test.dsk file to a CD-ROM)

Here's what you might get. See on the far left there is rubbish - some other file that is not WAV data. There are also a couple of 'blips' after that which are other files in amongst the wav data. Now all that you have to do is cut and paste out the songs and the blips and you're laughin!

Written by the wierdo otherwise known as Michael Kean.

November, 2000. Take Me Home!