Restoring deleted files

orlwaysbroke

Mega HELP needed.

I got busy this morning moving pics and music from C to D on my laptop.

Clicked and dragged "My docs" to D, then highlighted and deleted al the stuff in the C version of my docs - and then found that the stuff in D My Docs had also gone. BU@@ER.

Some is in the recycle bin, but some was "too large etc" AND HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY DELETED.

How can I get this stuff back????

espresso

orlwaysbroke wrote:

Mega HELP needed.


How can I get this stuff back????

You could use the Search facility to find your answer!

nickmack

espresso wrote:

You could use the Search facility to find your answer!

But preferably not on the PC the OP deleted the files from!

j_davies

File recovery http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Pictures on memory card recovery http://www.pcinspector.de/smart_media_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

Both totally free.

startrekker

sure the serach utilities wont work? He only copied from c drive so as long as he searches say using pcinspector and saves them to his partition, d drive he should be able to recover something?

espresso

startrekker wrote:

sure the serach utilities wont work? He only copied from c drive so as long as he searches say using pcinspector and saves them to his partition, d drive he should be able to recover something?

:doh:

Does nobody understand hyperlinks posted in forums? Hover your mouse over them!

:rolleyes:

orlwaysbroke

Cheers for the above.

espresso - cheers for the link to the other thread.
Should it be ok to download programs into the computer (I know it's a bit chicken and egg - I was purely curious) ?

albertross_2

Of the list of programs, restoration is the smallest exe, it will fit on a floppy or flashdrive, so can be run from there, which minimizes the risk of overwriting existing data area's.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

nickmack

orlwaysbroke wrote:

Should it be ok to download programs into the computer (I know it's a bit chicken and egg - I was purely curious) ?

No, as albertross says, run it from a disk.

That's what I meant about the above comment regarding not using the PC the files were deleted from. Every single disk write risks overwriting one of the deleted files!

orlwaysbroke

Thanks all - why is nothing simple.

Here I am at work - with no mem stick - and the laptop doesn't take floppies. And that's assuming that the system settings here will allow me to save to a mem stick etc (I know it doesn't allow installing software).

Doh

albertross_2

burn a cd?