To try and retrieve your deleted files, you would want to use an undelete
utility. These are commonly available for free, and work on the premise that
the space the file formerly occupied has not been overwritten with new data
yet. Once that has occured, recovery requires more extensive (and expensive)
work with dedicated forensic tools by someone who knows what they are doing.
The most important thing you must know, regardless which of the file
recovery applications you decide to use, is that when a file is deleted,
windows marks that space on the disk as free to be used by another file. If
another file overwrites part of that space, that bit of the file is lost
forever and may become completely unreadable by the program used to open it.
The more time that passes from you deleting a file to the time you try to
recover it, the less chance there is of a full and successful recovery.
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