Does anyone know any tips on recalling files, folders etc. from your computers hard drive, even from 2 years ago? I know it can be done with special tools/programs - i think. It sounds interesting? I would like to know how.
whiptail 0 Newbie Poster
DMR 152 Wombat At Large Team Colleague
For fairly recently-deleted files, a program like Norton Utilities' Unerase can obviously be of help. For reading/recovering data that was deleted some time ago though, you're probably looking at spending some serious $$ for a professional data-recovery application, because the areas of the disk in which that data was stored have most likely been overwritten multiple times. Your chances of being able to "decode" the magnetic signature of old disk-writes diminish greatly if that's the case.
Of course, utilities do exist for reading/recovering such data; some of them only available to law-enforcement and other government agencies. Depending on your exact needs, your best bet would probably be to do some Googling for keywords such as: data recover format unerase.
dlh6213 27 Posting Maven Team Colleague
This program will work, but as DMR said, if the drive has been in use, the files most likely will have become corrupted:
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