Re: recovering deleted data

From: Will Denny (willdenny_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:14:12 -0000

Hi

My downloads go onto a different partition from my system drive (if that's
where these particular files were). The downloads can be configured to a
different location to save overwriting any data that is going to be
recovered. 

-- 
Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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"Byte" <Byte@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:4015A5AB-69A6-4D7B-92F3-47004F50A71A@microsoft.com...
> Will and Rick, if I may add.  Jimmy should have been informed if he 
> downloads
> the Restore program, to do it to a 3 1/2 floppy disk and not the harddrive 
> for
> it may overwrite what he is trying to recover.  He can run Rest2514 from 
> his
> "A" drive.
>
> "Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi Jimmy,
>>
>> To try and retrieve your deleted files, you would want to use an undelete
>> utility. These are commonly available for free, and work on the premise 
>> that
>> the space the file formerly occupied has not been overwritten with new 
>> data
>> yet. Once that has occured, recovery requires more extensive (and 
>> expensive)
>> work with dedicated forensic tools by someone who knows what they are 
>> doing.
>>
>> This one here works quite well for basic file recovery:
>> http://www.collina.us/files/REST2514.htm
>>
>> -- 
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
>> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>> "jimmy" <jimmy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:5871526B-DA51-4817-8C46-6E80C16033F2@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi,
>> > Yesterday i deleted a folder i thought i did not need anymore and I 
>> > also
>> > emptied my recycle bin. Is there any way of recovering this folder.
>> > Thanks for your much needed help
>> >
>>
>>
>>

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