[Ham-Computers] Restoring a File Not in the Recycle Bin

[Sheldon Daitch]

Many years ago, I had a nice program, Xtree, which had an OOPS function, 
solely for the
purpose of undeleting, but that was way back in the years of Windows 
3.11 and that ilk.

I think there are even freeware programs which allow deleted files to be 
restored.



On 5/4/2011 11:13 PM, Jim Hill wrote:
> I'm running Win XP, and the file I deleted is an image file, I guess
> that's what it would be called.  It's not a picture image, but an
> image of the C: drive created by Terabyte Image for DOS. More
> familiar applications used for the same purpose are Norton Ghost and
> Acronis True Image.
>
> I assume you are talking about using System Restore which only works
> on the C drive.  I have an extended partition containing a number of
> logical partition, one of which contains the image I deleted.
>
> Jim
>
> At 11:58 AM 5/4/2011, you wrote:
>    
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> First, what OS? What program generated the file?
>>
>> You could try resetting the computer to the day before you deleated the file
>> and restore it back as it was.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jim Hill"<JJan-3 at cox.net>
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>> Subject: [Ham-Computers] Restoring a File Not in the Recycle Bin
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>>      
>>> I deleted the wrong file.   It was too big for the recycle bin.  I
>>> realized the problem immediately, so I turned off the computer so
>>> nothing would be overwritten.  How can I restore it?
>>>
>>> Jim
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