how to recover a partially overwritten text file?

J

joe

ok so let's say I have a big text file. I make some changes to the end of
the file. I save it under the same name, it says 'are you sure you want to
overwrite', i say 'yeah of course, dont question me, respect my authoritah'.
File gets saved. Then - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO - i notice that i had
accidently cut most of the start of the document and only saved the recent
stuff... doh.

Can I get this back? (no it's not in the clipboard). how does NTFS work -
does it write the file in the same place, or delete the original and write
the new file somewhere else? if overwritten can it still get most of it
back using a sector editor (please suggest one) or whatever? the new file
is much smaller than the original...
 
B

Benn Wolff

Hay Joe
I "think" if you use a file recovery prograsm you can get the older file
back in full !
NTFS just reindex's files when deleated, not 100 % about changed files.
this is the only recovery software I have used, so maybe some one can
give insite to a easyer ( cheaper ) way to fix this
http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/
 
J

joe

Benn Wolff said:
Hay Joe
I "think" if you use a file recovery prograsm you can get the older file
back in full !
NTFS just reindex's files when deleated, not 100 % about changed files.
this is the only recovery software I have used, so maybe some one can
give insite to a easyer ( cheaper ) way to fix this
http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/

I will give it a try. I know that deleted files aren't imediately
overwritten as per DOS, but I'm not sure if 'overwrites' are treated
differently, as in effect it is modifying the files rather than writing a
new file.
 

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