Re: How can I recover a (large) file that I have started to COPY over (rather than delete) ?

On Nov 12, 6:42 pm, Malke <notrea...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ship wrote:
There's nothing you can do. You've already overwritten the original file
with the new information. The only way to reverse your action is to
restore the file from backup. If you didn't have a backup, you're out of
luck.

B*gger. So are you really saying the WindowsXP overwritest the exact
same
part of the disk when it copies one file over another file?

I know for a fact that some of the bytes wont yet have been over
written yet,
because the original .PST file was so large (c.500MB) and I only over-
wrote it for it for
about half a second.

So, is there NO utility other than the WindowsXP "Recycle Bin" to help
us recover
deleted files?

When you overwrite a file with the exact same file name, you write data
to that particular place on the hard drive. It doesn't matter that you
only wrote for "half a second". Computers are fast. Running data
recovery software is going to bring up the file with the changes. But
don't take my word for it - I'll be happy for you if I'm wrong. I'm
going on years of experience in data recovery for clients but your
situation could be different. Here are some links to data recovery
software. Some of the programs are free and most of the ones that are
not at least allow you to see if you would retrieve the file(s) before
paying for them.


Thanks I already tried FreeUndelete and to not much avail.
But the fact that such utilities exist does prove that more can be
done
than just look in you "Recycle bin"

I still take issue with the idea that my ENTIRE file will have been
over-written
in half a second because it takes several seconds to copy the whole
thing!
So clearly SOME of it is still there on the disk.

But no matter.

Either way it remains one of the most STUPID things about m$Windows
that
if you over-write a file with a file of the same name that the system
isnt clever
enough to formally "Delete" that file first (i.e.put it into the
"Recycle bid") .
And thus copying data from disk to disk remains a very dangerous
process
- simply because if you get confused about which disk you have mapped
to what location you will delete you g*ddam data, apparently, for all
time.

How the *heck* that man Gates ever got to be so rich in this crud
still has
me scratching my head.


Ship
Shiperton Henethe





























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