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Undelete files under Windows XP
« on: August 27, 2004, 01:50:59 PM »
Hi folks,

Have you all had a good holiday? Enjoyed experiences you never come across in your daily life? Good, for it helps keeping a man (M/F) retaining his/her sanity!

I'm about to loose mine, as I deleted a file from a former Windows setup.

At some time, years ago I bought a computer with Windows Me. Later I installed Windows XP on a newly installed second HD.
So, over time the Me install became redundant and I therefore deleted the WINDOWS folder from the old drive. However I overlooked one  problem: inside that WINDOWS-folder there was at least one other folder which is still in use.

Is there a way to UNDELETE the entire WINDOWS-folder?
It is a FAT-formatted partition. Nothing has been written to that partition after the delete. I simply tried to remove the folder by putting it to the trashcan, which was to small to accommodate the WINDOWS-folder so it simply deleted the whole thing (after 4.379 dire warnings ofcourse!)

Please help, as my status as man-of-great-knowledge-of-computers is at stake...

Regards,

Tjitte

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Re: Undelete files under Windows XP
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2004, 01:58:27 PM »
This is an AMIGA-only site.
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Re: Undelete files under Windows XP
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2004, 02:11:03 PM »
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Jettah wrote:
Hi folks,

Have you all had a good holiday? Enjoyed experiences you never come across in your daily life? Good, for it helps keeping a man (M/F) retaining his/her sanity!

I'm about to loose mine, as I deleted a file from a former Windows setup.

At some time, years ago I bought a computer with Windows Me. Later I installed Windows XP on a newly installed second HD.
So, over time the Me install became redundant and I therefore deleted the WINDOWS folder from the old drive. However I overlooked one  problem: inside that WINDOWS-folder there was at least one other folder which is still in use.

Is there a way to UNDELETE the entire WINDOWS-folder?
It is a FAT-formatted partition. Nothing has been written to that partition after the delete. I simply tried to remove the folder by putting it to the trashcan, which was to small to accommodate the WINDOWS-folder so it simply deleted the whole thing (after 4.379 dire warnings ofcourse!)

Please help, as my status as man-of-great-knowledge-of-computers is at stake...

Regards,

Tjitte

P.S. I was (wife and kids included) off to Iceland for two weeks. Lovely country!


Provided you've not written any data to the drive since you deleted the files, you can simply purchase of of many exellent programs that will scan the disk for deleted files. I used one called "Recovermyfiles", I think. Registration cost aboot $30.

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Re: Undelete files under Windows XP
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2004, 07:16:58 PM »
Hum,
Why, why has no-one suggested using his backup? ;)

All your files should be there:



Xp (pro)  has a recover system
HELP andSupport -> recover
but this may not help here...

So i would perhaps download this...

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Re: Undelete files under Windows XP
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2004, 08:09:44 PM »
There is an excellent free program called "Restoration" by Brian Kato that will undelete files under Windows XP. It works on FAT, FAT95, and NTFS volumes. I've even used it on CDRW, ZIP and floppies. Do a search on the 'net for it.
 

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Re: Undelete files under Windows XP
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2016, 04:32:02 AM »
You just need some data recovery software to solve the problem.
 

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Re: Undelete files under Windows XP
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2016, 04:42:46 AM »
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You just need some data recovery software to solve the problem.

Original thread was posted in 2004.  Probably too late for data recovery software, now!  ;)
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Re: Undelete files under Windows XP
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2016, 09:36:34 PM »
Laura joined to post this 12 years later as her first post. Probably just spam.
 

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Re: Undelete files under Windows XP
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2016, 10:22:33 PM »
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Laura joined to post this 12 years later as her first post. Probably just spam.


Shhhhh... i don't want the mods to remove it as she's so pretty. :)
 

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Re: Undelete files under Windows XP
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2016, 11:49:43 PM »
Just download Recuva which is free recovery software.

https://www.piriform.com/recuva
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Re: Undelete files under Windows XP
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2016, 12:48:08 AM »
Somehow I doubt Merilin Perli's an Amigan :D

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