Following on from my disaster after deleting my work I have realised its a FOLDER not a FILE I deleated and the down loaded progs reccomended all look for files! I have done this and no not a sausage on my folder but everthing else I deleted with it any help that you can give PLEASE! my accountant.tax officer will fry me alive.

Jeff TT

Jeff,

 

What undelete software are you using?

 

What operating system are you running?

 

Most undelete programs I have seen handle files individually ignoring folders.

 

Please avoid saving new files until you have recovered the deleted files. Feel free to email me at bruce@netpd.com and I will help as much as I can.

 

 

Ouch - Bruce is right. Do as little as possible (nothing at all would be best) until you get someone like Bruce to talk you through.

 

If you have a serious, serious problem, look at these guys. They can recover most things but as you can guess they are not cheap.

http://www.vogon.co.uk/

 

Hope you get a result.

 

Thanks for replying to my post,the down load prog I have tried is "Rognerud research File recovery programe" my local computor shop downloaded it off the internet and gave it to me on floppy so as to avoid to much overwriting.

Trouble is as I have said it was a folder that was deleated not a file and although it is recovering files from the same day (and from a long time ago) ther is no mentuion of my folder,in fact the heading over the listings says file so am I right in assuming the folder may still be there but the software is not looking for a folder? is ther any other way or programme to use?

I am running win 98 o/s latest edition

 

Jeff TT

 

 

if you have deleted the folder and have emptied your reycle bin, and rebooted that pc, i very much doubt youll be able to get hold of that folder again.

 

Lessons to be learnt from a twat.

Always back your stuff up.

Jeff,

 

I had a look at the home page File Recover 2000. It looks like the program will list the original directory the file was in so it should be easy to find your deleted files all in the same directory. What happens when you run the program?

 

Send me a phone number and I will call you.

 

 

 

 

 

Jeff - your work would have been stored as files within the deleted folder. If I rembember correctly, when you deleted the folder, the files would have been moved in to trash folder and the original work folder deleted.

 

Can you remember / spot any of the filenames of the files in your work folder? Does your undelete program show these names? If you click on your Trash folder are they there to be undeleted? (FFS DON'T EMPTY THE TRASH FOLDER!!!)

 

I can only do this from memory as I don't have Win 98 anymore - please consult an expert - your stuff may well be there unless you've had an unlucky spell at the keyboard...

 

Good luck

If you run this program that restores folders, you have to tell it to search your recycle bin. The folder is located at C:\recycled.

The information has not been deleted from your desktop, its been deleted from your recycle bin. In Windows now, data is not deleted from where you say it is only moved to the directory C:\recycled. That is why it only takes a second to delete a 100mb directory but takes longer to empty it from your recycle bin.

 

Log story short. Tell the program you have run to search, C:\recycled.

 

Stuart

Not sure if I'm barking up the wrong tree here but I seem to recall that when "deleting" files the actual data is not moved anywhere. Instead, the location reference is removed from the file allocation table (FAT). Your actual data still occupies the same sectors as before but the bit that tells the PC where these sectors are located is erased/changed - thereby giving the impression your data has been removed. Recovery programs generally search for these location references and restore them if possible. However, once the location references have been deleted/changed, any other "write" activities of the PC will overwrite the sectors, thereby making it impossible to restore the original data. This is why experts advice people in this situation not to touch the PC or even reboot/turn it off. That way you have the best chance of recovering the "lost" files. I know I'm babbling on and rehashing a lot of what has been previously said but hopefully it all makes sense somehow.

 

Sorry to hear about your problems Jeff, hope you have backups of what you lost - but if you're like me then your ass is as good as fried!

 

Speak soon mate!

 

Danny

 

[This message has been edited by Danny (edited 04-04-2002).]

Yes Danny that is correct.

When a file is deleted with normal windows commands, the index from the FAT is just removed, so any new data that needs to be saved will just write over it because the index says that part where the data was, is new blank, even though it really isnt.

I was saying, the program used to recover data ask what directory to search.

Windows now doesnt delete when asked to. It moves it to the recycled directory/recycle bin so it can easily be recovered. That is why you can delete a 100mb file in no time, but when you empty it from your recycle bin it takes longer.

I was saying, if you deleted data from your desktop and then empty your recycle bin, the hazy image of the data will be located in the recycled direcory and not desktop, because it was located in the recycle direcotry last

 

Stuart

Jeff sounds like you need a copy of systemworks if you not got let me nose!!

 

regards allan

http://www.recover4all.com/

 

This allows you to see/recover files and folders.

 

Do you have Norton Utilities Installed??

Unerase Wizard on NU will help.... I would take the hard disk out and only try undelete programs using the hard disk in another machine as a slave.

 

If your machine is still switched on and you have not rebooted then dont shut down - switch off the mains (this is assuming you are going to remove the hard disk to recover the files elsewhere)

 

Also you lose the name of the file when you delete from the recycle bin..

 

Good luck mate,

 

Glen