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Big Mistake HELP
Hello,
Just deleted some files that were too big for the recycle bin by accident. They are very important. Is there any possible way to get them back? I think they’re gone for good.
-Aaron
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6 Replies
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Only think you can do, if it is not too late already, is to send your HDD for professional recovery services, which costs $$$ for each incident. There are also softwares out there that claim it can reclaim such accident-deletions, but their software cost much as well.
Best wish,
Perry -
In the old days you could use a binary disk editor to access the FAT and change some bits in the FAT to restore it yourself, but I think those days are over, unless you have the skills to do binary edits for the NTFS. You are lost if any disk optimization has taken place. Perry’s advise seems like the only sensible solution.
Harm Millaard
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Try some of these softwares, I personally have no affliation or experience with these particular softwares though.
https://www.stellarinfo.com/download.htm
Perry
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my experience is that software apps can recover small files OK, although their original names are gone. Larger files like video often get defragmented and then cannot be recovered.
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what if you did a system restore to the day before you deleted those files. that might bring those files back, but it might set back some of the work that you did too. hop eyou find a solution.
Craig Davis
Color Bars Communications, Inc.
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System restore doesn`t recover any user data files, only system files and settings.
Try Stellar Phoenix, it`s really stellar. I was once able to recover ALL files from a drive that has been formatted, repartitioned and formatted again. Just make sure you don`t use the drive with deleted files. If it`s a system drive, plug it into another computer and try the repair from there.
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