how do i retrieve deleted files?

Question

out of a hard drive after emptying the recyle bin

Answer 1

Go to www.stompsoft.com and download the free trial of Recover Lost Data. Even if the file is no longer in your deleted files folder, that software will be able to restore it for you. I hope that helps!

Answer 2

You can download Programs that read the infromation on your disk and recover your files

Here is how it works


The Hard Disk Consists of a magnetic feild manipulated by the reader The Feild alines in certain ways going in 0's and 1's then is converted to regualar computer languges and what the program does is read the mineute traces of the magnetic feild and puts it together although this usly does not work on picture but sometimes it does. Anyway i would search for A file reocvery software and crack it or buy it ur choise. Then IT puts the file on the mediam of ur choice and there is the file hope this helps :)
Also if you recylcly ur pc PLEASE smash the hard drive to peices cause the data can be recoverd even if you put it in the recylcle bin and dealte it or you can do a full army format which takes about what 36 Hours but then you cant really recovery.

Answer 3

Restoring Deleted Files
By Sandy Berger

Every now and then I find that my fingers work faster than my mind. This is especially true when working on the computer. I sometimes click the mouse without thinking through the options. The worse outcome of this behavior is to inadvertantly delete a file.

In most cases, it's fairly easy to retrieve a deleted file because, by default, most deleted files are stored in the Recycle Bin. To retrieve a file that's been sent to the Recycle Bin, just double-click on the Recycle Bin icon located on your computer's desktop, right-click on the item you want to retrieve, then choose Restore. You may want to read "How To Use Windows' Recycle Bin" for more information on how the Windows' Recycle Bin works.

Restored files will automatically be restored to their previous location. Even if you restore a file that was originally located in a folder that you subsequently deleted, the folder is recreated and the file is restored into that folder in its original location.

A much bigger problem occurs when a deleted file does not go into the Recycle Bin. As I previously stated, most deleted files are stored in the Recycle Bin by default, but there four instances when a deleted file is actually deleted rather than sent to your computer's Recycle Bin:

Items deleted from network directories are not sent to the Recycle Bin.
Items larger than the storage capacity of the Recycle Bin cannot be stored in the Recycle Bin.
Items deleted from removable media such as floppy disks, CD/DVDs, and USB hard drives are deleted rather than sent to the Recycle Bin.
Items deleted by a virus or lost through a power glitch will not appear in the Recycle Bin.
Also remember that when the Recycle Bin is emptied, the files that were in it are not recoverable.

If a deleted file is no longer in the Recycle Bin, you can restore it from your backup. Even without a backup, the file can still be retrieved using a dedicated file recovery program — as long as the file or hard drive has not been overwritten.

When you delete a file, the operating system marks that file for deletion rather than actually remove it and makes the space it occupies available to the operating system. If you save new data to the hard drive, the operating system may use all or a portion of the space occupied by files marked for deletion. When the space occupied by files marked for deletion is overwritten, deleted file are no longer retrievable. Thus, if the deleted file is important, there is one vital thing that you should do to increase the possibility that the file can be retrieved — don't save any files to the hard drive before you attempt to retrieve the lost file.

This is important when looking for good file retrieval program because you don't want to download or install a program that may overwrite your data. So, look for a program that you can run from a floppy disk or USB drive. You could also have a friend download such a program for you and run it on your computer from a floppy disk. Two such programs are Fast File Undelete and Smart Undelete.

There are several precautions that you can take to protect your files and make them easier to retrieve if they are accidentally deleted. Most of these are a part of good computer habits.

Backup all important files so that you can retrieve them from that backup if necessary;
Get a good antivirus program and update it regularly to prevent a virus from infiltrating your computer and deleting important files;
Be sure to defrag your hard disk often. Defragging rearranges a data file back into a contiguous space, which makes file retrieval and recovery easier and quicker; and,
Last but not least, get control of that trigger finger and make sure you read the screen before you click so you won't accidentally delete a file (I'm still working on that one!).

Answer 4

U mean Windows OS? if u didn't press Shift key while deleting file, you can restore it from your Recycle Bin... open the icon on the desk top , choose the deleted file that u see in the list, press right mouse button (right-click) by selecting restore from the menu , u will find the deleted file in its previous path...

Answer 5

Click on the "Recycle Bin" on the start-up page, hi-lite the file with a right click on the mouse, then click "restore", you're done.

Answer 6

You can go to your recycle bin and find the file in the list of deleted ones, and restore it....

Answer 7

Try this:

From the c: prompt at DOS type: undelete command.

if you haven't written many files on the disk you have higher probabilities to recover some data.

good luck

ps. files are never "erased", the space are maked as "available" only.

Answer 8

file restore

Answer 9

**** em out