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i have recently emptied my recycle bin of all my daughters pictures!
is there any way i can bring these back?
im a bit of a computer divvy!ithink im on an emachine3240
many thanks.
 
lamsy said:
i have recently emptied my recycle bin of all my daughters pictures!
is there any way i can bring these back?
im a bit of a computer divvy!ithink im on an emachine3240
many thanks.
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Do nothing further on the computer! The data is still on your hard drive
and can usually be retrieved with data recovery software. It is
important to do nothing further on the machine to protect the deleted
files from being overwritten.

http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html
PCInspector File Recovery -
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/welcome.htm
Executive Software “Undelete†-
http://www.execsoft.com/undelete/undelete.asp
R-Studio - http://www.r-tt.com/
Ontrack's EasyRecovery - http://www.ontrack.com/software/

If you feel you don't have the skill to do the data recovery, take the
machine to a professional computer repair shop that has experience in
doing data recovery. This will not be your local version of
BigStoreUSA.

Your experience is exactly why regular backups to external media
(CD/DVD's, etc.) are so important. If you don't know how to back up
your data, then taking the machine to the local pro is a good idea
because the pro can teach you how to back up. It's very easy and will
save you future sadness.

Malke
 
lamsy said:
i have recently emptied my recycle bin of all my daughters pictures!
is there any way i can bring these back?
im a bit of a computer divvy!ithink im on an emachine3240
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"Deleting" a file doesn't actually delete it; it just marks the space as
available to be used. There are third-party programs that can sometimes
recover deleted files. The problem is that the space used by the file is
likely to become overwritten very quickly, and this makes the file
unrecoverable.

So your chances of successfully recovering this file are decent if you try
recovering it immediately after deleting it, and rapidly go downhill from
there. If you've been using the computer since then (for example to write
this question and read this answer), your chances may be poor by now.

But if the file is important enough, it's worth a try anyway. Stop using the
computer in question immediately, if you haven't done so already. Download
an undelete program (here's one:
http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html but there are several others
to choose from; do a Google search) on a friend's computer and bring it to
yours on a floppy to try.

If this fails, your only other recourse is to take the drive to a
professional file recovery company. This kind of service is very expensive
and may or may not work in your case.
 
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