2007-02-25 18:39:21 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
All is not lost... The general rule is that you have to "wipe" your drive before everything is gone. "Wiping" basicly deletes everything and then fills all the new space with junk data, essentially overwriting everything... You have a few options now. 1. Research the whole hard disk recovery thing, learn command line stuff, and do it yourself. or 2. Bring it to a good data recovery technician and spend about $300 (best option) or 3. Go to the FBI and say you found this hardrive at a known terriorist's house, and say that there is Al'Queda's entire masterplan on the drive, but it was deleted. They'll bring it all back...
Option 3 is only if you are desperate...
2007-02-25 20:37:44 · answer #1 · answered by theorem604 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In structures with recycle/rubbish packing containers, it breaks down like this. once you deliver a record to the recycle/rubbish bin, the record isn't certainly deleted in any respect. it extremely is in basic terms flagged by the working gadget that it must be deleted as a fashion to launch greater force area or once you manually empty the bin. once you empty the bin, then the record gets deleted. in spite of the undeniable fact that, it extremely is to no longer say that the information is wiped from the hard disk drive. whilst a record is written to a no longer undemanding disk, the information is written in clusters, each and each of it extremely is suitable collectively in any such vogue that it extremely is linked with with the particular record. whilst a record is deleted, the cluster links to the record are broken, and the clusters are loose to be written back, in spite of the undeniable fact that, all the information from the record remains sitting there. subsequently, it extremely is how records restoration application works; it seems to rebuild those "links" that make up the data. a real deletion, does all this, after which overwrites all the clusters the unique record occupied so as that the unique records of the record isn't any longer there. once you defragment, the force is shifting records around consistently, so any remnant records interior the clusters is in all danger to be overwritten interior the approach.
2016-11-25 23:44:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give this a try... If you know when you actually deleted the files.. roughly then...click the start menu on your computer, go into accessories, go to system tools, the click onto system restore... it will ask you if you want to restore your computer to a specific date...then click on the date the day before you deleted the files.. this will take your computer back to that day and then hopefully your deleted file will be returned to you...but make sure you save everything you have downloaded and new files you have obtained since then or it will delete all them when taking it back to that date..
Good Luck I hope it works for you..
2007-02-25 18:54:41 · answer #3 · answered by Nishka 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HeHe ... Nope, it's not looking good. The act of defragging your drive made any recovery attempts just about impossible. The only recourse would be if you have a backup.
2007-02-25 18:51:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well you can try a system restore, but back date it before you u did all th deleting and defragging etc.. Depending on what operating system u have try looking at control panel and clicking on the icon "system" but like i said, depends on what operating system u have....Good Luck ;-)
2007-02-25 18:52:36 · answer #5 · answered by Jules 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check for undelete Tools on Yahoo or Google search.
Even Defragmentation does not clear them for sure from your Disk unless they are overwritten by new Data.
2007-02-25 18:44:20 · answer #6 · answered by shortCut 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could try using backtrack live linux distro - it has some forensic utils, but it might be just as effective to burn some floppy disks in sacrifice to the great printer jam god and ask him for your data back.
2007-02-25 19:20:35 · answer #7 · answered by Maniaca Esoterica 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check out BG rescue linux, if you are comfortable in the command line. i use this collection of disk utils all the time. the tools you'll be concerned live in /usr/sbin, i believe but you might have to dig a little bit. here's a link:
http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~giannone/rescue/current/
-cheers!
2007-02-25 18:47:57 · answer #8 · answered by nor.doyle 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im not really sure that you can because you have cleared them but if you have google desktop you can search them on your desktop i think?
2007-02-25 18:42:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
just go to the recycle bin and restore the file.
2007-02-25 18:53:11 · answer #10 · answered by jun 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋