Recover of an overwrited file in NTFS

[aht01]

Hello,

On a Windows XP Professional with SP2 and in NTFS, i have the
following problem:

At the installation of Outlook 2003, I have by mistake overwrited my
own Outlook.pst file.
All my mails of the last 6 mounds, which was on my backup disk and
2.5GB large, i have overwrited with a "blanc" outlook.pst file,
created by
Outlook and with a size of +/- 8MB.

In the meantime I have on this backupdrive D:\ nothing modified.
In fact, i have overwritten my "mail" Outlook.pst file of 2.5Gb by a
"blanc =
empty" Outlook.pst SMALER file of 8Mb, because they have the same name
=
Outlook.pst.

Is there a tool to recover my mails, or a part of them.

Thanks,
Andre.

 

[Malke]

Hello,

On a Windows XP Professional with SP2 and in NTFS, i have the
following problem:

At the installation of Outlook 2003, I have by mistake overwrited my
own Outlook.pst file.
All my mails of the last 6 mounds, which was on my backup disk and
2.5GB large, i have overwrited with a "blanc" outlook.pst file,
created by
Outlook and with a size of +/- 8MB.

In the meantime I have on this backupdrive D:\ nothing modified.
In fact, i have overwritten my "mail" Outlook.pst file of 2.5Gb by a
"blanc =
empty" Outlook.pst SMALER file of 8Mb, because they have the same name
=
Outlook.pst.

Is there a tool to recover my mails, or a part of them.

Thanks,
Andre.

As you've already been told, no. If you overwrote the file, the original
file is gone unless you backed it up to independent media. If you
didn't, then I'm sorry but you are out of luck. Data recovery software
will find that particular file - but it will be the latest one.

Reposting the same message will not get you a more palatable answer.


Malke

 

[Robert Morley]

Google for a program called GetDataBack. I believe it's a paid program, but
I've never found anything better. It will scan your entire hard drive,
looking for possible files that it can recover, and show you a list of
everything it finds. I've seen it work even in instances where partition
information was corrupted and the drive was completely unusable. It's been
a number of years since I've had to use it, but if I recall correctly, it
requires you to place the files you want to recover on a separate drive; I'm
not absolutely certain of that, though.

Contrary to what some people have said, you CAN get a file back that's been
overwritten PROVIDED that the disk isn't too full, and you got lucky with
where it placed the file. A file that's simply replaced will normally be
put in a different area on disk than the file that it was replacing. This
means that the original is still there for advanced utilities to find. If
you fill up more space on that disk, though, or defragment the disk, then
your chances of recovery decrease very quickly. Also, if the file was
modified instead of replaced (for example, a database file, where it's not
saving a new copy, but changing the existing copy), then you likely won't
find very much. In the case of one PST file being saved over top of
another, though, you've got a fair chance.



Rob