restore deleted files

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Robyn

I tried to back up files on to a zip and thought
everything went well. but when I went back in to check the
files they had not transferred and were also deleted from
my harddrive. they do not appear in the recycle bin
either. these files are very important and they are lost.
Is there any way to restore them some how??????
 
Robyn said:
I tried to back up files on to a zip and thought
everything went well. but when I went back in to check the
files they had not transferred and were also deleted from
my harddrive. they do not appear in the recycle bin
either. these files are very important and they are lost.
Is there any way to restore them some how??????
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Here are some tools that might help:

http://www.hddrecovery.com.au
http://bootmaster.filerecovery.biz
http://www.restorer2000.com/r2k.htm

To increase your chances of recovery, you must
immediately cease using your PC. Any activity, even
installing an undelete tool, increases the risk of you
permanently overwriting the file you wish to recover.
Your recovery attempt must occur on some other
Win2000 machine, with your own disk installed as a
slave disk.

The long-term solution to such problems consists of
backing up your important files to a different medium,
every week - but them I'm sure you already know this.
Having only one copy of an important file is a guaranteed
recipe for disaster.
 
Robyn said:
I tried to back up files on to a zip and thought
everything went well. but when I went back in to check the
files they had not transferred and were also deleted from
my harddrive. they do not appear in the recycle bin
either. these files are very important and they are lost.
Is there any way to restore them some how??????
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Comrade,

Hopefully you did not write your post from the computer where you deleted
your data.

Assuming that you didn't, first pull your drive out of your computer and
install it someone elses. Don't even restart your computer. When restoring
files, DON'T restore to the same drive that you erased the files from.

With a little bit of luck, your drive won't have NTFS and you will have
defrag'ed it in the recent past. Not that these are necessary conditions
but it does make recovery easier. Someone erased several thousand NTFS
files on a highly fragmented disk and I was able to recover them all.

No matter how many times people are told to make backups, it just ain't
going to happen. At the very least, they should defrag their disks often to
make this type of recovery easier. I strongly recommend Diskeeper and use
the boot time defrag option at least once a week.

There are a bunch of recovery tools out there. Some are nearly useless
and/or quite difficult. Some actually charge by the number of GB's
recovered. I forgot what I used. Try before you buy or you could find
yourself rudely disappointed.

Uncle Joe
 
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