Undelete? Help please :)

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pyro

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Does anyone know how to actually recover deleting items, such as pictures?
How to uncover them from months ago?
There's a few pictures I've deleted a while back and need them now...lol...

I've tried all the "Good" recovery programs, non of them work well at all.

If anyone could let me know, that would be great.
 
Right Click on your Recycle Bin and click Explore.

If you haven't Emptied it recently, they will still be in there.

If you have Emptied it, you will need a recovery program,
like you stated. I'm not sure of which are good.

Just thought I'd throw the Recycle Bin suggestion.
 
pyro said:
Does anyone know how to actually recover deleting items, such as pictures?
How to uncover them from months ago?
There's a few pictures I've deleted a while back and need them now...lol...

I've tried all the "Good" recovery programs, non of them work well at all.

If anyone could let me know, that would be great.
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Well it depends whether you have have used shift delete ie permanent delete or only deletge which sends to the recycle bin if its later than go to recycl bin and restore the file if its former

try this
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=data+recovery&aq=f&oq=
 
Lol...I know...I'm not that dumb ;p. I know how to use the recycle bin. The problem is, I usually empty it as soon as I toss something because it bothers me when there's stuff in it...lol
 
pyro said:
Lol...I know...I'm not that dumb ;p. I know how to use the recycle bin. The problem is, I usually empty it as soon as I toss something because it bothers me when there's stuff in it...lol
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Same here.
I didn't mean to imply anything. It was just a first thought.
 
You need to understand how the operating system works. When you delete something, the directory entry for the deleted file or files is deleted. That allows the operating system to use that disk space again for something else. At the point you make the deletion, the files are still there but the road map to them is gone. The recovery programs basically restore that road map. If the operating system happened to use that disk space for something else in the mean time then the images aren't there any longer because the data has been overwritten and nothing will retrieve what was there before. Since the reovery programs didn't provide any success, I would suggest that is what happened. Sorry.

People have too much faith in deleted file recovery. Anything is recoverable if it hasn't been overwritten. Nothing is recoverable if it has.
 
fmw said:
People have too much faith in deleted file recovery. Anything is recoverable if it hasn't been overwritten. Nothing is recoverable if it has.
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Yes, it is, there are special techniques to retrieve data even though it has been overwritten, but not with software, with a 'magnetic force microscope'.

Wikipedia said:
The delete function in most operating systems simply marks the space occupied by the file as reusable (removes the pointer to the file) without immediately removing any of its contents. At this point the file can be fairly easily recovered by numerous recovery applications. However, once the space is overwritten with other data, there is no known way to recover it. It cannot be done with software alone since the storage device only returns its current contents via its normal interface. Gutmann claims that intelligence agencies have sophisticated tools, among these magnetic force microscopes, that, together with image analysis, can detect the previous values of bits on the affected area of the media (for example hard disk).
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmann_method
 
chibicitiberiu said:
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmann_method
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In that article you posted it states the following:

"Companies specializing in recovery from damaged media cannot recover completely overwritten files. These companies specialize in the recovery of information from media that has been damaged by fire, water or otherwise. No private data recovery company claims that it can reconstruct completely overwritten data as of now."
 
2048Megabytes said:
In that article you posted it states the following:

"Companies specializing in recovery from damaged media cannot recover completely overwritten files. These companies specialize in the recovery of information from media that has been damaged by fire, water or otherwise. No private data recovery company claims that it can reconstruct completely overwritten data as of now."
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I bet the CIA can:P
But they wouldn't tell us that.
 
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