Re: Where does deleted files go?

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In news:7C65AE59-97A7-4AD5-B06A-F7CD80CA31AB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
izaaco <izaaco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Hi Tom,
>
> Thanx so much for the reply. I tried accessing the link but the
> webpage is no longer available. Do you happen to have an alternative
> link? Anyway, where do I do the recovery from? As in which computer?
> The computer where the file was originally stored?
>
> Thanx =)
>
> "Tom Porterfield" wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:44:01 -0700, izaaco wrote:
>>
>>> I've created a home network recently, I shared a folder on MY
>>> computer within the network. My sister deleted one of the files in
>>> the shared folder through HER computer by mistake but I cannot
>>> seems to find it from the recycle bin from either her computer or
>>> mine. Where does the deleted files in a network goes to? Is there
>>> anyway I can recover the lost file?
>>
>> Files deleted across a network do not go to any recycle bin so
>> cannot be recovered in the normal fashion. You might try
>> Restoration from http://www.geocities.jp/br_kato/. Whether or not
>> you can successfully restore the file will depend on whether that
>> part of the disk has been written over since the file was deleted.
>> Do as little as possible on the PC where the file was stored until
>> you are able to run restoration to try to recover the deleted file.
>> --
>> Tom Porterfield
>> MS-MVP Windows
>> http://support.telop.org
>>
>> Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.

As for an alternative link you can look here for some similar tool
offerings:

Data Recovery Tools:
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.html

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