how to recover erased files

[D Evertz]

Hello!
I made a bad mistake. From a laptop on my home network
I erased all 'My Document' files on my main desktop,
thinking I was erasing those files on the laptop. Is
there a way to recover those lost files? I bought Norton's
System works but found out it only recovers if you had it
installed in the first place.
please help!

D Evertz
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Hello!
I made a bad mistake. From a laptop on my home network
I erased all 'My Document' files on my main desktop,
thinking I was erasing those files on the laptop. Is
there a way to recover those lost files? I bought Norton's
System works but found out it only recovers if you had it
installed in the first place.
please help!

D Evertz
(e-mail address removed)

Have you looked in the Recycle Bin or tried the System Restore feature on
that computer?

If this does not work, here are links to some file recovery programs. It is
critical that the affected system is used as little as possible until the
recovery program is used. Using the system can overwrite the area of the
hard drive where the deleted files are located and make recovery virtually
impossible.

http://www.collina.us/files/REST2514.htm

http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html

File Saver Pro - Recover Deleted Files
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_u.htm#xp_util

http://www.geocities.jp/br_kato/

http://www.execsoft.com/undelete/undelete.asp

 

[Guest]

I defraged right after I deleted them.

-----Original Message-----


Have you looked in the Recycle Bin or tried the System Restore feature on
that computer?

If this does not work, here are links to some file recovery programs. It is
critical that the affected system is used as little as possible until the
recovery program is used. Using the system can overwrite the area of the
hard drive where the deleted files are located and make recovery virtually
impossible.

http://www.collina.us/files/REST2514.htm

http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html

File Saver Pro - Recover Deleted Files
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_u.htm#xp_util

http://www.geocities.jp/br_kato/

http://www.execsoft.com/undelete/undelete.asp

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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[Ted Zieglar]

If you deleted the files from your Recycle Bin and then defragmented your
hard disk, you can kiss your files goodbye.

Ted Zieglar

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

I defraged right after I deleted them.

Unfortunately, this probably killed any chance you might have had to recover
the files. In the links I gave you some of those programs are free. You
might want to get one of these and give it a shot anyway just on the off
chance that some files are still there.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the tip. I downloaded ''file saver''
and was able to recover many files. Now it's a
major task to sort through them all.
D Evertz

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Thanks for the tip. I downloaded ''file saver''
and was able to recover many files. Now it's a
major task to sort through them all.
D Evertz

Excellent. Glad you were able to recover some of the data.

 

[El More]

Greetings,

I suppose Active@ undelete can help you to restore. This tool worked
really great for me. It's restore algorithm is simply awesome. Give it
a try, I suppose you won't regret it.
http://www.active-undelete.com/
If you need to restore some data from DOS Active@ uneraser is a great
tool also!
http://www.uneraser.com/

 

[Brona]

Hi,

Restore process can be done using Active@ undelete tool. It worke
simply great and was able to restore literally all data I lost. Amazin
tool with extremely powerful restore algorithm.
Recommended.
http://www.active-undelete.com/

If you wish to recover in DOS Uneraser can greately help you, as i
recover data perfectly.
http://www.uneraser.com


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Bron