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by civilestimator

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I was installing a game on my personal folder

Then I did not like the game so I un-installed it

But, I did not know instead of un-installing only its folder, it removed also my personal folder

I looked at the trash Icon it is empty (knowing I un-installed a software so it will not be there)

I want to know is there a way I could recover my Personal Folder that it included in the deletion process

Im using Windows 2000, does it have a command where I could recover deleted items (those not in the trash icon)

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by w2ktechman

to get one of the 3rd party SW packages which can find/recover deleted files. There are quiet a few out there, so you may have some work to do.
They are usually easy to use.

by hal 9000

If you are attempting to recover data off a Boot Drive it's better to remove the Boot drive fit a different drive or fit that drive to a different computer and recover the data to a separate HDD to prevent any overwriting of lost data which will then be unrecoverable.

While Data Recovery is a simple process you still need to apply caution and act carefully as once you start to over write data you are on a hiding to nothing and the costs escalate dramatically when you need to start to employ Forensic Recovery methods to get back overwritten data.

Col

by hal 9000

I know the feeling. :D

But I'm just panel beating the computer Honest. :^0

Col

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