Computer experts-- Any way to retrieve deleted files?

[christo]

I did some hard-drive cleaning last night and moved some files to the recycle bin, WITHOUT deleteing them. Just put them there before making some final decisions. Well, I woke up this morning, looked in the recycle bin, and they're gone. I definitely didn't hit the delete button. So, are they gone for good, or is there a way to bring them back. If it takes some huge utility program then it isn't worth it, but if there's a way, let me know!

 

[SweetCherry]

I think the only way to get em back is if you have a system restore program. "Go Back" is a good one. I've had it before on my old pc. My new pc came with a system restore program built in already, but I can't remember the exaact name of it and am too lazy to look for it.

 

[Cuckolded_BlK_Male]

As long as the areas on the hard drive where the data was written hasn't been written over, you should be able to recover it. In most operating systems when you delete a file, nothing is really deleted. You've just deleted the file system's reference to where it was.

Now, this is the bad part ... There may be some data recovery software available for your OS. I don't know. I do know that there are companies that specialize in data recovery, and that if you send them a hard drive that they can pull the data off of the platters. I'm sure this costs an arm and a leg though ... So, it's really a question of how important the data is to you.

 

[Rodney King]

Follow this link....

http://www.literotica.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=123191

..starting on the 2nd page there are discussions of the different ways to retrieve your files.

pm me or post here if you have any questions. I won't be around to much today, but will try to respond when I can.

Good Luck!

 

[Weird Harold]

So, are they gone for good, or is there a way to bring them back. If it takes some huge utility program then it isn't worth it, but if there's a way, let me know!

Rodney referred youto a very good explanation of how torecover lost data.

however,

The absolute WORST thing you can do when you inadvertantly erase files is to go online for help! At least using the computer with the lost data, it is.

Windows assigns clusters to files starting with the lowest available numbered cluster -- that is usually the clusters most recently released, ie fromthe files you want to recover. Everytime youopen a webpage, a copy of that page is stored in your temporary internet files and uses up the clusters release by the deletion of files.

If you inadvertantly delete files, immediately shut the computer down until you have a copy of norton's unerase (or similar utility) handy. If you don't have an unerase utility, take your computer to a computer repair shop. DO NOT use the computer until you're ready to attempt recovering the files.

Just FYI, the files probably disappeard from the recycle bin because you have a disk clean-up configured in your task manager or have the the recycle bin set to empty itself when you shutdown the computer.
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[Killswitch]

Deleted files can be retrieved in DOS, unless you have xp, then you are screwed. Thats my understanding of it.
But you need to know what you are doing........

 

[christo]

I'll check out the link, but I think they're probably gone for good. No big deal, just some papers and stuff I wrote in B-school, some, ahem, pictures I downloaded off the 'Net, and some game demos I decided I wasn't ever going to play. Nothing earth-shattering. Although, I actually moved the file with all my finished stories and everything I'm working on, and I caught my mistake and moved it back. Didn't think anything of it at the time, but if I'd lost all that work...well, it'd be time for a 12-gauge dinner.

Maybe my system does clean out the recycle bin every so often, but I know I had junk sitting in there for months and nothing happened. I put some stuff in there last night and POOF! Oh well, learn something new every day. Thanks everyone!

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

Never mind. It was just some porn.

Ooops. Wrong id.

 

[patient1]

What is your windows edition?

You may be able to do a sytem restore by using the start button to bring up "Run" & type "MSConFig" in the box & take it step by step from there to get it all back.