Can the content of a deleted folder be restored?

[newbie2006]

Hi,

I've mistakenly deleted my music files.

Is it possible to restore them?

& no they were to big to put in the recycle bin.

Please help.

Thanx in advance.

George

[street1 (RIP)]

What did system restore do for you?

http://www.theeldergeek.com/system_restore.htm

[Neil]

I don't think system restore will return deleted files.

Try Undelete:

http://www.undelete.com/undelete/undelete.asp

It'll cost you though

[J0K3R]

System Restore wont undelete deleted files and wont help your problem,

1. Do not Access the hard drive, I'm guessing you alrerady have so the chance of using a program such as "recover my files" or 'easyrecovery proffessional" to recover the files wont be all that successful.

Note that both these programs will come close to fully restoring a hard drive's data even after a full format but to be successful the you need to not try and access the drive

if i were you id give one of these programs a go (you will have to pay for it tho) but dont expect a full recovery, but you may get most of your music back, you may get only a small amount back. but that will be determined by how many times windows has access and moved data on the drive

You could also try the undelete files feature in tuneup Utilities, however i would reccomend the firts 2 mentioned programs

[Rob Pomeroy]

>PC Inspector File Recovery< is free.

[Neil]

As long as the amount of free space on your disk is large, there is a good chance of recovering the data. Windows only rewrites over the data if there is no "unused" free space remaining. But then still, complete recovery cannot be guaranteed.

Undelete trial version can scan for deleted files, so perhaps you could see if they are "available"? But without paying you cannot recover more than a few kb.

Thanks Rob for that link; I didn't know there was a free utility available But never having used it I cannot give any advice on it. (And I'm a bit confused as to why they have called file extensions disk formats)

I suggest you try Rob's program first. If there's no joy, try Undelete.

[street1 (RIP)]

Since I have Acronis backup anyway,I gave it a try.

I deleted 250MB of files and folders and then did system
restore to two days earlier and everything is back.

Go Figure.

Why even have restore to an earlier time if it don't work?