restore recycle bin contents from external hard drive backup

[Nancy Newburger]

I have an external hard drive backup as of a specific date, using windows xp
backup utility. I want to restore to my computer the recycle bin contents
from that external drive. However, when I use the windows restore utility
and try to locate the recycle bin I can't find it.

My question is twofold. When doing a complete system backup with the
windows utility, does it backup the contents of the recycle bin? Then, if it
does, where is the recycle bin located in the hierarchy.

In trying to figure this problem out on my own, I ran across a folder called
RECYCLER that has files in it. However, when I look at that folder on the
external hard drive backup, the files in it have different and ambiguous
names ie, Dc256.doc.
Does folder have any relationship to my problem.

Thanks in advance for anyone's help.

 

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Nancy Newburger пишет:

I have an external hard drive backup as of a specific date, using windows xp
backup utility. I want to restore to my computer the recycle bin contents
from that external drive. However, when I use the windows restore utility
and try to locate the recycle bin I can't find it.

My question is twofold. When doing a complete system backup with the
windows utility, does it backup the contents of the recycle bin? Then, if it
does, where is the recycle bin located in the hierarchy.

In trying to figure this problem out on my own, I ran across a folder called
RECYCLER that has files in it. However, when I look at that folder on the
external hard drive backup, the files in it have different and ambiguous
names ie, Dc256.doc.
Does folder have any relationship to my problem.

Thanks in advance for anyone's help.

Recycle Bin content is stored in separate folders on each hard disk.
These folders have names \Recycler\S-<your account's SID here>\.
Documents in Recycle Bin are renamed and have form of "d%c%d.%s", where
%c is drive letter, %d -- ordinal, and %s -- original file extension.
The original names are stored in hidden binary file "info2" in that
folder. If your backup contains Recycler folder with corresponding
subfolder, you can restore your Recycle Bin from it.
If you decide to extract files manually, you can restore the original
name by opening "info2" with some utility which can view binary files.
The original filenames are written there in order according to numbers
in encoded filenames.

 

[Nancy Newburger]

Thank you for the assist. I was able to restore the files I wanted and now
know what they are.