Question re undeleting files

[Olórin]

Hello there -

The answer to this hypothetical one may be blindingly obvious, but it's got
me thinking:

Say I have one physical disk partitioned into C:\- and D:\-drives and I want
to try to retrieve an accidentally-deleted file that was on D:\.

Say, in my foolishness, I have no undeleting software installed. In trying
to observe all the wisdom on this business, I want to leave the D:\
partition as untouched as possible. Could installing my undeleting program
on to C:\ alone possibly affect my chances of a successful retrieval from
D:\? Might the install affect sectors that could hold parts of the files I'm
after, or does the partitioning strictly allocate sectors to C:\ and D:\ and
there they stay?

Thanks!

 

[Richard Urban MVP]

You are safe, yet you may be not safe.

You are safe in that by installing the undelete program to drive C, Drive D
will be untouched.

You may be unsafe if you have system restore enabled. The act of installing
a new program is likely to trigger a creation of a new system restore point.
I am not at all certain that this would not be done on both partitions. I
have never investigated this possibility.

Turn off system restore on drive D before you install the program on drive
C.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

One more possibility, if you have a floppy drive, or a formatted CD (with
packet writing). Download the below restore program to a floppy
(probably "A" drive or disk maybe "E" drive) and run it from there.
That way you wil not overwrite any files on "C" or "D" drives.
Free Download - Restoration 2.5.14
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4474.html

 

[Olórin]

Thanks to you both.

One more possibility, if you have a floppy drive, or a formatted CD (with
packet writing). Download the below restore program to a floppy
(probably "A" drive or disk maybe "E" drive) and run it from there.
That way you wil not overwrite any files on "C" or "D" drives.
Free Download - Restoration 2.5.14
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4474.html