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[christineclinton]

How do I recover permanently deleted files from my computer / recycle bin?

[vhortex]

you can use undeleter.. you can use recurva from this website http://www.piriform.com/recuva

please note that the more diskwrite that happens after erasing a file means the greater change that the file can't be recovered. erasing a file using file shredder also ensures 0 recovery.

[mahesh2k]

There is one more free file recovery software which has German developers. I don't remember the name, so i suggest checking the lifehacker list.You can also search this one other sites like hubpages, squidoo as those sites usually have lists formed by users.

[Quatrux]

I would also recommend Recuva, everything works fine, if the files weren't over written, usually you can recover most of the files..

once I needed to recover files after a format, Recuva worked and recovered most of the pictures, but the problem was that all the video files were lost, only small thumbs of those video were found in a picture format which were useless..

[mahesh2k]

I remember the name of that software. It's PC inspector file recovery. You can search on google for the official website. It's much better software and it is free. You can recover files as per the drive and timestamp. It'll also show you the data which is in good condition or bad. This way you can recover more files which is quite rare for free software. Try free PC inspector file recovery and let me know if it works better or less than other softwares.

[inea]

It is recommended to make an image of the files on the disk that contains the files that need to be recovered. If something goes wrong during the recovering process the image can be used to try it again. The image should be stored on another disk or on an external disk.

[KevinWH]

First of all thank you to give this topic because my mistakenly my brother Permanently deleted some of my important files from my folder and i want them very badly thank you for the information may i get them back?

[mahesh2k]

KevinWH, on 20 September 2010 - 09:36 AM, said:

First of all thank you to give this topic because my mistakenly my brother Permanently deleted some of my important files from my folder and i want them very badly thank you for the information may i get them back?

You can get it back. You need to download "PC inspector file recovery" software. It is free download and no spyware etc. Just make sure that you didn't overwrite any other data when you found the deletion of those files. Because if you got the drive filled again over those deleted files then these files cant be fully recovered. If you didn't messed up with drive to overwrite any files(that includes the copy pasting) then it is easy to recover the files from drive.

[inea]

That might include the warning not to download the program to recover deleted files to the hard disk that contains the deleted files. Most of the time the files don't get deleted. The way to find the file is changed. So the file doesn't show up in the search results. But the file still exists completely. This makes it sometimes possible to recover deleted files.

[wendyll]

Yes, "vhortex" is right. The key point to recover emptied Recycle Bin files lies in whether the data contained in those files are "overwritten" or not. When you delete files the data itself isn’t deleted, just the index entry that says where the data for those files is located. The space containing the deleted files is also now marked as free space so it is available to the system for any new files to be written there instead.