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by friscojw

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Running Windows 2000 Professional I seem to have overwritten, or have erased all files in MY Documents. I've looked for hidden files, in the recycle bin and have had no luck. Does anyone know of a tool or utility that can recover these files. Ideally an image would be saved that included all data but I may be dreaming
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by thechas

As long as you have NOT written any files to the drive, or defragmented it, any decent file recovery utility should work.

I would start with Norton's undelete.

I know that there are other utilities, maybe even a few freeware, but I have not used them.

Chas

by thechas

Hi,
Got your message.

If Norton can't find anything, I don't have any real good suggestions.

You can try looking through the Tech Republic download "200 Ways to revive a dead hard drive"
but I don't believe there is anything in there that applies to your situation.

I havn't gone and doublechecked, but I believe there are recovery utilities at www.pcwiz.com and www.systeminternals.com

Before you do anything else with that PC however, I would ask how important are the files?
If they are both critical and valuable, you might want to contact one of the data recovery firms.
Their sevice is expensive, but they will have th ebest chance of success if you do nothing more with the drive.

Chas

by 1nfo

hi,

FileRestore from Sysinternal.com would be able to recover any DELETED files, even if recycle bin is empty.

I had very good experience with the softwares.

by madroxxx

Please take no offense here.....Just want to check the obvious here. Are you logged on as the same user you were before. Windows 2000 creates a new my documents folder for each person that logs on.

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