Emergency!

[ski]

Apparently my friend deleted a paper along with some trash, then emptied the Recycle Bin (Windows 2000 I think).

Is there any way to salvage this data so she can get the paper back?

:confused:

[ski]

UPDATE: Found R-Undelete from download.com ... sent to her... hopefully will work

[iowapilot]

As long as she didnt put anything else in the RB and delete it it should be recoverable. Let us know how it goes.

[ski]

I am extremely busy until tomorrow later, so this is all i can do.

This is what she said:

HER: thanks for the help but i don't know how to work this sadly
HER: ok i've tried
HER: but it wont work

I know nothing about this software. Is there another option with something easier to use?

[StonedWheat]

Maybe word or whatever application she used auto-archived the paper. If she is using MS word, See if her auto-recovery settings were turned on and where they put files at. I don't know if those files remain even after the original file is deleted though, but it's worth a shot.

[Jeffbx]

Recover4All (http://www.recover4all.com) works great & it's pretty easy to use, although she may have to sift through a bunch of deleted files to find the one she wants. I ran this one time on one of my machines & it found files that had been deleted 3 years ago.

Registration is $69, but the eval version will tell her if it will work before she buys it.

[GilbertsGrape]

pc file inspector and recovery from download.com free and workd good

[mechmike0034]

http://www.geocities.jp/br_kato/

Haven't tried it personally, but it was recommended by a friend. Too late for this emergency, I know, but posting for future reference...

[Maarchk]

Y'all are my heroes. I was burning discs to clear space and deleting the files behind me. and sure enough, part of the disk was bad and i had already deleted the folder.
But that last post saved the day... So thank you!!! I think this is a most wonderful list of options for morons like myself. :)