How about a good UNDELETE to next version of windows?

[Toke Lahti]

In MS-DOS 6 we had undelete.

I don't know how much windows developers really use windows, but for
me and seems to me that many others would need a simple and easy
undelete function to this os.

Saturday morning I was trying make some room in harddisks for video
editing.
So I decided to compress some premierepro1 projects that I have zipped
with premierepro1.5's "new" function.

Accidentally I deleted one 45Gt zip-file before I moved it to another
drive.
Recycle bin was set to default 10%, so the zip was too big for that.

I thought this was no biggy, because I had two diffrent file recovery
programs.
I didn't touch the drive where I deleted the zip and just started to
find it file recovery.

Result:
40 hours later I have tried over a dozen of diffrent programs and none
of them could simply undelete this zip-file.
All I could do, is try to fetch those single avi- and wav-files one by
one and of course these recoverers don't understand so long file types
than .prpro...

I know that the zip-file is there, maybe a bit fragmented, but why
this is so hard?

Do these OS's ever develop to a point that you can safely use them
without fearing all the time that all your life's data may vanish at
any second?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Restoration Version 2.5.14 Author: Brian Kato
http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html

Description
[[Restore files which are deleted from the recycle bin or deleted while
holding down the Shift key by mistake. Conversely, this program has another
function that makes it almost impossible to restore all deleted files. You
can use it after deletion of confidential documents, embarrassing files and
so on.]]

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Toke Lahti]

Restoration Version 2.5.14 Author: Brian Kato
http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html

This on seems to be the simpliest of them all.
No full scan or anything...

Even Ontrack, Stellar Phoenix or GetDataBack couldn't find the zip.
RecoverMyFiles was the only one that found 2 files from about 200.

Anyway these b-class recovery programs succeeded messing the windows
so
hard that windows explorer crashed constantly.
I had to make system restore for several points back to get it going
again.
From that I got new suspect; maybe it was system restore that wrote on
top of the zip file. After several hours of going through the files
only system restore
information was written after the deletion of the zip file.

So maybe there is just two choises with windows; either you keep your
system
working or data safe, but not both.

 

[Rock]

This on seems to be the simpliest of them all.
No full scan or anything...

Even Ontrack, Stellar Phoenix or GetDataBack couldn't find the zip.
RecoverMyFiles was the only one that found 2 files from about 200.

Anyway these b-class recovery programs succeeded messing the windows
so
hard that windows explorer crashed constantly.
I had to make system restore for several points back to get it going
again.
From that I got new suspect; maybe it was system restore that wrote on
top of the zip file. After several hours of going through the files
only system restore
information was written after the deletion of the zip file.

So maybe there is just two choises with windows; either you keep your
system
working or data safe, but not both.

That's what a full backup is for.