Deleted documents
By abhaijith
@abhaijith (2963)
India
January 17, 2010 3:07am CST
Dear Mylotters,
I need a help, one of my documents folder got deleted and what can i do to regain that? I have tried to restore the system but there is no restoring points available. I have already utilised the space of recycle bin. So now what to do?
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5 responses
@aimeedia2x (374)
• India
17 Jan 10
i think u can't get them back. u copied some data to that drive, thats why can't read the recovered documents. if u want to ever recover a deleted/formated data, u should not copy any data to that drive. get data back is one of the best recover tooooL.
@abhaijith (2963)
• India
17 Jan 10
Friend,
i have recovered that documents to anothere drive , but before opening them, i copied that to the previous place itself. Now its not readable. Yeah, it opens in ms word,but the language in not readable.
@aimeedia2x (374)
• India
18 Jan 10
that means u can'trecover it, ur deleted documents are replaced by some other files.
@nocturn98 (956)
• Venezuela
17 Jan 10
There are lots of recovery softwares available to get back those accidentally deleted files. Most of them are free to try, you can download them on the net. There's a free one which is actually pretty good. It's called recuva by piriform. Here's the site:
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Good luck.
@abhaijith (2963)
• India
17 Jan 10
Friend,
Am happy that i got all the documents back,
Thank you friend,
But its not ireadable,That all where DOC format files and now it cannot open with word....
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
17 Jan 10
Restoring the system does NOT undelete any data that has been deleted. The first thing to do is to look in the Recycle Bin. If the record has gone from there, then there are many utilities which can attempt to recover the data.
It is important to understand the way in which files and folders are stored on your computer and what 'deleting a file or folder' means. A folder is simply a special kind of file which just contains information about the files which it contains. Files may be stored physically anywhere on your hard drive and they are referenced by an index (called the File Allocation Table in DOS and earlier Windows systems and superseded by the New Technology File System in Windows NT and later). Both of these systems are basically a database of where files are physically stored on the hard disk. When a file or folder is deleted, all that happens is that the record of that file or folder is removed from the database and the area that the file occupied is marked as 'available to be written to'. The data itself is NOT deleted until another file operation chooses to overwrite the area. In the case of most Windows systems, even deleting in the normal way does not immediately free up the disk space, it only marks the record as 'to be deleted' and moves it to a special folder called the Recycle Bin. The Recycle Bin is actually a folder like any other and information about what it contains (and what it used to contain) is stored in the FAT or NTFS database.
Most file recovery software will look at the deleted records in the FAT or NTFS database (these are marked as deleted but usually not actually removed) and attempt to restore those records. If nothing else has been subsequently written to the disk, this is usually successful. If, however, the hard disk was fairly full and, perhaps, there were many fragmented files and other data has been stored since the file or folder was deleted, the files or parts of them may have been overwritten and recovery may not be possible. You can see from this that, if you want to restore data that has been deleted, you must try to do so as soon as possible and, preferably, before you do ANYTHING else on the machine.
@kapeed85 (138)
• India
19 Jan 10
Hi, there are many file recovery softwares available on interenet, try them they will recover all the deleted files even if you used shift+delete. These softwares will restore any type of file and from any drives. If you use these, surely you will get your file.