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by whatme?

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Just had a very spiteful person leave us. Before he left he deleted a whole bunch of programs on a computer. We hadn't backed anything up on this workstation. We could rebuild it but there was some personal stuff from another employee though. Is there any software etc that we could use to try and get it back. Workstation is W2K

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by jt.johnston

1) The information is likely still there, DON'T USE THE DRIVE FOR ANYTHING!!! Don't write to it or save anything on it! If you have a way to do a bit-copy of the drive, do it.

2) Depending on the configuration of the system and the size of the drive, you may need to set up a new system (boot) drive and configure the erased one as a secondary drive.

That said, I had a 120 gig hdd that was repartitioned by a Linux install, and used a recovery utility from RR (I think it was RR-Studio or something similar) that brought back EVERYTHING!

There are a lot of DIY utilities and some that I didn't like at all, but this worked for me.

Good luck!

by nhoek

Provideing you have not writen or deleted anyting or ran a defrag you should be able to get most if not all the data back. I have used Fast File Undelete in the past. Made by DTIDATA. Very easy to use. Not sure on the cost but good to have that or somthing like it around. They do have a website www.dtidata.com.

Good luck.

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