Recovering files

[Kasper]

Okay, I've seen numerous programs on the web to do this however, I'm really just curious as to how you would either do it without a program like that, or how you would write your own.  Thanx in advance.

  ~Kasper

[Joleen]

You may have seen some of the prices involved in data recovery.  Those prices are high because it's very hard.  To write your own, you'd have to know the hex address of your data and you'd have to be sure that the data wasn't overwritten.

[Kasper]

That's interesting, cuz I've seen plenty of free ones, in fact, I'm not sure that I've seen any that cost anything ^_^.  Anyway, I understand the general idea I'm just not sure how to go about it.

If you know what the path was before it was deleted, could you effectively get a hex address from that somehow?  Would it help if it was sent to the Recycle Bin first so the index file is created?