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| Thread ID: 31526 | 2003-03-24 21:30:00 | Lost music | Thomas (1820) | Press F1 |
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| 130551 | 2003-03-24 21:30:00 | I foolishly deleted my music,went to recycle bin and norton bin,but not there,also went system restore,not there,are they gone forever? | Thomas (1820) | ||
| 130552 | 2003-03-24 21:36:00 | if u pressed empty recycle bin then yep gone forever...but if u havent..then u might have some luck..but i dunno how to rescue them....coz u mentioned nortons bin...if it was the normal recycle bin..just click on it and drag the files out of there back onto desktop...or right click and press restore..if thats there.. | csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 130553 | 2003-03-24 22:28:00 | Try this program it may be able to recover the lost files. www.webattack.com | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 130554 | 2003-03-24 22:55:00 | can that actually recover files...no matter when u deleted?...i thought if u delete...its gone...bad luck? | csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 130555 | 2003-03-24 23:14:00 | nope generally if you delete files from the "recycle bin" then the files are tagged not readable. Its not untill you re-write over the space where the files actually are on the harddrive that they may not be recoverable, but even then all is not lost... hence the webattack link provided! :) |
minos#2 (318) | ||
| 130556 | 2003-03-24 23:18:00 | so u dont actually lose space when u delete things? coz ur not actually deleting..just making it "invisiable and unreadable"... is there at all..a way to delete..and delete not just unreadable and invisablise the file... sorry we went off track the orginal purpose of thread... |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 130557 | 2003-03-25 08:32:00 | Deleting only changes the first letter of the file name, which makes it invisible and the space it occupies available to be overwritten . Thomas: All your files (or as many as you haven't overwritten by now) are recoverable using undelete utilities such as Nortons or one of the internet freeebies . My money is on Nortons . Files matter . It is only at OOPS (or AAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHH) time that you finally learn to keep all data on a separate disk or at the very least, a separate partition . Your data disk will not be written to unless you decide to add or amend a file, whereas your C: drive will be written to by Windows and a host of other programs, hence the potential for overwriting files is immense . Consequently, if you have accidentally deleted a file or files from your C: drive and they are not recoverable from the recycle bin, you should halt all disk activity by using the on-off switch (not a regular shutdown) then boot from the Nortons CD to recover the files . It works, but better you don't delete files you want . Cheers Billy 8-{) The night is full of the screams of geeks who clicked yes when they meant NO |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 130558 | 2003-03-25 09:52:00 | Sigh,I know Billy,seems I must learn the hard way.Tried all the ways you have suggested and also disk investigator,but no luck.One thoughtless click and down the tubes with collection accumulated over 12 months. Thank you all for efforts,if you wish to shed a tear on this sad occasion,feel free.;) |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 130559 | 2003-03-25 21:45:00 | Just a thought for the new music collection *sob* that you are now *whimper* planning through your veil of tears: Make your favourite music files read-only in future, then you will have to move into demented-psycho mode before any will get *accidentally* deleted. Of course, the risk of HDD failure is always there, looking over your shoulder waiting for the most inconvenient , damaging and traumatic moment to strike, so backing up to CD or other media would not be a bad idea either for such collections. Cheers (and commiserations) Billy 8-{) Read only! :D Now that's such a simple idea I wonder why I didn't think of it earlier. ?:| |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 130560 | 2003-03-25 22:10:00 | I noticed you mentioned "Norton" along with your recycling bin... now did you simply right click over the bin and press "Empty Recycle Bin" or did you select "Empty Norton Protected Files." ?? If you did the first, then double clicking on the bin will allow you to use the "Unerase Wizard" and recover the files... if however, you chose empty Norton Protected Files.... can't help you there... Lo. |
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