Retrieving Deleted Files

[sddsddean]

Is there any way to retrieve a deleted file? I have read that it is possible, but just wondered if it really is. I am running Windows XP Home and used the Recycle Bin to 'permanently' delete the files.

[beso]

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

[ivor4781]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Question528052.html

[Peter Pedant]

Yeah I dont know how to do it ... but

usually delete just rips off the tag - jpg. - pdf - doc and leaves the majority part of the file floating there at the back of your computer

and so by matching a phrase - 'the bomb is left at Euston' springs to mind you can recover the accompanying text ( hey didnt they do this in the Imitation Game ?) and restore it

and that is how our guardians find offending emails.....

but how does the man in the street do it ?

I think you have to buy a programme that does this
but others may know

how do you delete delete - you down load a free prog which overprints a random number over the whole of the file as well as deleting the tag.
( and yes I have one ) look under eraser/erazer

[beso]

You should stop using the affected computer immediately. Everything you do could be overwriting the delete file.

Download Recuva at the link above on another machine, put it on a USB drive and use it from there.

[sddsddean]

Thanks both.

[Peter Pedant]

Oh God and keep regular back ups !
let this be a lesson to you

I keep two back ups of tax correspondence so I dont whine to the taxman - I had the record once but it has gone down the chute.....