Recover Deleted Files - Comments Page 4

Realised I must have deleted, but don't know how, an important document. It was a .txt file, that is from a 'Notepad' application - so only 10KB at most. I've used 'Restoration', PC Inspector File Recovery' and 'Undelete Plus'. I cannot find this file anywhere, and I did delete some files but they were only a few days ago - must have been then. I'm on a Vista. I'm devastated to be honest, is there anything I can do? Thanks in advance.

EDITOR'S NOTE: If it's not in the Recycle Bin, and the recovery tools can't find it, then most likely it was overwritten on the disk. Little to no chance of recovery in that case.

I am using Outlook Express for my email. Since about three days ago, I have not been able to use it as several of my files have been damaged. I have tried to compact my emails several times and reboot, and it may work for one file, but not all. Then it may work for a few minutes, but then stop working. I have seen where there are several downloads to use to recover these files, but I do not want to have to pay for such, and I want to make sure I am using what I need to be using. Any suggestions will help. Thank you

I deleted a big .pst file of 500MBs. I was able to find the deleted file using Restoration, but only using the "Include even if the file is zero" option. When I try to "Restore by copying" selecting the file, nothing happens.

EDITOR'S NOTE: That's because the file is zero bytes! It's empty.

I recently attempted a system recovery using the supplied cd's, however when it was done I realized that my external harddrive was written over using the files from the cd's. I thought that I was being very proactive, because I moved everything to the external hardrive, that I wanted to keep. Can files from an external hard drive be recovered? It is a Maxtor 3200.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Recovery should work the same for an external or internal disk. But if the files have actually been over-written, it's not likely that you'll be able to recover much. Think of it like "scribbling" all over an etch-a-sketch image.

HHHHEEELLLLLLLPPPPPP!!!!!! I deleted a file a bit less than a week ago. Every free undelete type system (6 of them) can't find it. One demo for a costly one, Uneraser, found it really easily. Any program as good as it that's free? NEED HELP NOW!

EDITOR'S NOTE: Well, you didn't say which ones you've tried... how about the ones mentioned in my article?

Yes, I read the article. But while mine is a problem mentioned in your opening statement, the part about "...poof", and "...it's all happened to us...", I didn't see it addressed.

I selected all of the pics I had on a flash drive with the intent of moving them to my hard drive. I held down control and clicked a couple of .thm files I didn't need with the mindset of deleting only those, right-clicked, delete, yes I was sure, and "poof", I realized my mistake.

As you know, they did not get relegated to the Recycle Bin, that would be too easy. I'm open to suggestions and ridicule if it will help me recover these precious pics and vids of my 2-yr old as an infant.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Mike, if you have not added or changed anything else on the drive, I think there's a good chance you can recover them with Restoration or a similar utility.

I had an account on Webshots about 3 or so years ago. I was getting a new computer during that time, so to back up my photos, I e-mailed them to myself. I've tried to open them, but there's the dreaded red X in place of each one. And when I've right-clicked Properties, copied & pasted the URL, it's no longer there. (I guess since it's been so long.) I've contacted Webshots with no reply, so I was just wondering if there was a way to recover files that you've uploaded onto a website, instead of just saved onto the computer? Thank you for any help anyone can give.

EDITOR'S NOTE: If they've been deleted from the website, you're out of luck. But if you sent the actual photos to your email (not just links to the photos online) then I think you should be able to download the attachments and view those photos locally.

The VERY best file recovery software I've ever come across, and I've been using it for years with 100% success, is Ontrack's Easy File Recovery Pro.
It's never let me down. Ever.

My computer takes sooo long to boot up. When I look at task manager I see as many as 70 processes running. Is there a way to go into config sys and safely change the processes that start up when I boot up? How do I know what the programs are that are associated with the processes?

Hi, My husbands computer crashed quite a few times in 2005 and he lost valuable e-mails that would now greatly help in our pending Court Case. He was on gmail. Although the years have passed away and this question is 2 years late is there now any hope of retrieval???

EDITOR'S NOTE: A computer crash should not affect the Gmail account. All of the emails are stored on the web. Did you try logging into the Gmail account?