Finding a deleted file

ikthius · 29-11-2006, 08:16

Hey everyone,

My girlfriend deleted a file back in july and she has been asked to send a copy of this file to someone in uni. I think it is a letter of some kind.

apart from checking the recycled bin, and probably checking the recent/temp folders for a temp backup copym is there any programs (free) that can be used to search for the file, and hopefully its not written over, retrieve the said file?

I remember, on an old comp, i had a norton suite and that helped find totally deleted files.

ik

29-11-2006, 08:30

I have used software thats recovered a lot of data from an unbootable drive using a usb bridge and this worked very well simpley called filerecovery pro but it costs. I think trying to find a file so old your going to be in trouble though

grandmaster · 29-11-2006, 08:30

Try these.

http://officerecovery.com/freeundelete/

http://www.diskinternals.com/

HTH

Edit: But as Zing says a file that old may have already been overwritten

bopdude · 29-11-2006, 08:31

There are various progs that will do it, as for free

of course the other problem you have is time, given that it was deleted way back then, there is the chance that it is unrecoverable............... to be continued ... good luck.

EDIT, must type faster than the bot and ninja fingers

grandmaster · 29-11-2006, 08:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by bopdude

EDIT, must type faster than the bot and ninja fingers

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Hmmm Zings kung fu keyboard style has beaten me this time, I need to practice!!
</dubbed>

I'll get my coat

29-11-2006, 08:35

hehehehehehehe

Gareth · 29-11-2006, 09:06

Yeah, unless the PC has been virtually unused since July, I think this is a lost cause.

29-11-2006, 09:40

Restore from a backup?

29-11-2006, 09:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by lsainsbury

Restore from a backup?

if they had back ups do you think a question would be raised in forum?

29-11-2006, 09:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

if they had back ups do you think a question would be raised in forum?

The OP did not say if they had backups - or if they had checked them or whatever...

They might have the file in an old email or something??

29-11-2006, 10:04

Well I took it foregranted Ik isnt a total n0oB

The Jackal · 29-11-2006, 10:30

You could try windows system restore to an earlier date It might work for u.

Failing that theres a plethora of disk recovery suites some quite pricey with no real guarantee of recovery : It is also best NOT to use the pc on which the files were deleted.... The more you use the less chance of data recoverery.

Any try windows sys recovery first

---------- Post added at 11:30 ---------- Previous post was at 11:27 ----------

My girlfriend deleted a file back in july

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Didnt see that ! sys restore wont work as it only goes back 3 months.

Data recovery is gonna be very slim best save you time and give her the bad news I'm afraid

29-11-2006, 11:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

Well I took it foregranted Ik isnt a total n0oB

Me neither - no offense was intended Ik!

ikthius · 29-11-2006, 21:40

Sorry People, been out all day.

I also thank you all.

I am not a total noob (newbie, i hate leet speak).

sorry but she never had any back ups.

but she was very lucky, she went to the ucas website, and they had a copy of what she deleted (thinking she would never need it again). so she copied the file from ucas.

I thought i would have to have worked on her computer to recover this file for at least a week the way she was talking.

but alas I dont.

Again thanks.

pips to you all.

ik

30-11-2006, 05:23

Oh - so hang on then - it wasn't real data that was inputted by her - it was just something she had downloaded and then subsequently deleted?