Retrieving DELETED DATA

[FLKULCHAR]

I, like the fool that I am, inadvertently, deleted 22 gigs of photos from my
harddrive.
During the "delete" process, I received a message saying...'your Recycle Bin
is full! Do you PERMANENTLY want to delete these items?'

I, of course replied..."YES" as I thought, all along, that I was deleting
only copies of the files!

IS THERE A WAY TO DATA RECOVER AND RETRIEVE THIS DELETED DATA...AND, IF SO,
PLEASE HOW DO I PROCEED?????

Thank you in advance.

Very truly yours,

FLKulchar

 

[Peter Foldes]

Might want to check your previous post a few hrs ago for answers.

 

[Guest]

Stop multi-posting please. Multiple posts won't get you an answer any
quicker but just P off people in the group

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I, like the fool that I am, inadvertently, deleted 22 gigs of photos from my
harddrive.
During the "delete" process, I received a message saying...'your Recycle Bin
is full! Do you PERMANENTLY want to delete these items?'

I, of course replied..."YES" as I thought, all along, that I was deleting
only copies of the files!

IS THERE A WAY TO DATA RECOVER AND RETRIEVE THIS DELETED DATA...AND, IF SO,
PLEASE HOW DO I PROCEED?????

Maybe.

"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 very 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 or CD to try.

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