deleted files and folders

now then...
a mate of mine got inebriated recently and woke up the following morning to find that nearly everything had disappeared of his pc....

photo's music...you name it...its gone...

whats the chances of him recovering it...and if so...how?

cheers..

H :P

noy sure what the chances are what system is he using xp, vista, don't know if he could to a system restore to a day before his files disappeared.

tried that mate...

used to be so much easier to restore to a point ya wanted on xp...he has vista and its a ball ache....not worked anyway :(

have done a little research..and ya need some software..some undeleter or something similar...dont fancy his chances tho..

i'll give it a go mate...cheers tiger

I think it's also worth mentioning that 'overwritten' data is almost impossible to retrieve...

If the data was on the master/boot/only hard drive you would be safest to place it as slave in another machine and run the recovery tool from that machine.
(Recuva is apparently quite good)

Good luck.

.tUrniP wrote:

I think it's also worth mentioning that 'overwritten' data is almost impossible to retrieve...

no its not
it depends on a few factors
one being the reason it has vanished
the other what tools you use to retrieve it
i have retrieved data after a reformat of a os

tools to use
not free so get a torrent
http://www.r-studio.com/
http://www.getdata.com/

free stuff not sure how good it is

disk digger


more herehttp://www.snapfiles.com/get/diskdigger.html


http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/dskinv.html

http://www.dirfile.com/freeware/hard-drive-recovery.htm

I think there's a difference... but, whatever, I stand corrected.

Just a point of interest though - http://www.r-studio.com/

Quote :

And always remember:
NEVER TRY TO WRITE THE IMAGE FILE OR TO RECOVER DELETED FILES
TO THE SAME DISK WHERE THE FILES RESIDE, OR YOU MAY LOSE YOUR DATA ON THE DISK!