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rb
I inadvertently deleted an important NotePad document and desparately need
to retrieve it.
How do I do this?
to retrieve it.
How do I do this?
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Will Denny
Hi
You may be able to recover the file with an 'undelete' program, so long as
it hasn't been overwritten. Try the following program:
http://www.execsoft.com/undelete/undelete.asp
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You may be able to recover the file with an 'undelete' program, so long as
it hasn't been overwritten. Try the following program:
http://www.execsoft.com/undelete/undelete.asp
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Will Denny
MS-MVP
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JerryM \(ID\)
Look in the Recycle bin,
If it is there, restore it,
If it is there, restore it,
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rb
I just found the real problem is being able to find it. It's not in Recycle
Bin. Where next?
Bin. Where next?
J
JerryM \(ID\)
Try a search for the Document name,
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philo
JerryM (ID) said:Try a search for the Document name,
No...
If the file was deleted and you search for it...
you may end up over-writing it.
*STOP* using your machine at one!!!
Best thing to do is to install undelete software on another machine...
then slave the drive with the lost data to it.
The 2nd best method is to install it on the machine with the lost data...
but note: the more you use the machine....the greate the chance of
over-writing the lost data!
K
Ken Blake, MVP
rb said:I inadvertently deleted an important NotePad document and desparately
need to retrieve it.
How do I do this?
I take it that you've already tried the recycle bin and it's not there.
"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 are perhaps 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 to try.
If this fails, your only other recourse is to take the drive to a
professional file recovery company. This kind of service is very expensive
and may or may not work in your case.
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rb
Thanks for all the ideas and help. I was able to get the file back by using
an "undelete" program.
an "undelete" program.