Help! Kids delete files

Please help, if you can. My husband has gone away, my kids used his computer
and now the my documents folder is practically empty! The recyle bin has
been emptied too. They both deny all knowledge, but I can't see how else
this could have happened. My husbands college work has disappeared, so if
you have a way of restoring files that have been deleted out of the recycle
bin, please let me know.

Thank You

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:15:02 GMT,"=?Utf-8?B?TWFydGluYQ==?="
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Please help, if you can. My husband has gone away, my kids used his
computer and now the my documents folder is practically empty! The
recyle bin has been emptied too. They both deny all knowledge, but I
can't see how else this could have happened. My husbands college work
has disappeared, so if you have a way of restoring files that have
been deleted out of the recycle bin, please let me know.

Thank You


This may help:
http://www.executive.com/undelete/undelete.asp

--
"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden;
it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet.

Mike

It would be VERY BEST to shutdown the machine, unplug it, and await your
husband's return to repost here for instructions on how to attempt the fil/s
retrieval. Any further work on the machine, even booting it, may destroy
the personal data.

And the kids may have inadvertently DL'd a piece of malware which has done
the dirty deed, i.e., not they who intentionally did so.
Be calm and await further advice, please.
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Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:15:02 GMT,"=?Utf-8?B?TWFydGluYQ==?="
penned this whopper in
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Please help, if you can. My husband has gone away, my kids used his
computer and now the my documents folder is practically empty! The
recyle bin has been emptied too. They both deny all knowledge, but I
can't see how else this could have happened. My husbands college work
has disappeared, so if you have a way of restoring files that have
been deleted out of the recycle bin, please let me know.

Thank You


This may help:
http://www.executive.com/undelete/undelete.asp

--
"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden;
it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet.

Mike

This may help:
http://www.executive.com/undelete/undelete.asp


I agree 110% that the machine in question should be switched of ASAP, and
not restarted until data recovery is about to be attempted.

B.J, undelete looks good, but it's only for WinNT kernel not Win9X, and you
have to have it BEFORE the files were deleted.

Not much use for this customer.

Something like SpinRite from Gibson Research www.grc.com could be of use here.

Good Luck.
BarryG

The husband has posted in reply at " Subject: Jack Martinelli Kids
delte files", 2/15/2005, in this ng, where there is extensive followup.

--
Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS
Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm

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Your cooperation is very appreciated.
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"Jack E Martinelli" wrote in message
...
It would be VERY BEST to shutdown the machine, unplug it, and await your
husband's return to repost here for instructions on how to attempt the
fil/s
retrieval. Any further work on the machine, even booting it, may destroy
the personal data.

And the kids may have inadvertently DL'd a piece of malware which has done
the dirty deed, i.e., not they who intentionally did so.
Be calm and await further advice, please.
--
Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS
Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx
Your cooperation is very appreciated.
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"B.J.Honeycut" wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:15:02 GMT,"=?Utf-8?B?TWFydGluYQ==?="
penned this whopper in
microsoft.public.windowsme.general

Please help, if you can. My husband has gone away, my kids used his
computer and now the my documents folder is practically empty! The
recyle bin has been emptied too. They both deny all knowledge, but I
can't see how else this could have happened. My husbands college work
has disappeared, so if you have a way of restoring files that have
been deleted out of the recycle bin, please let me know.

Thank You


This may help:
http://www.executive.com/undelete/undelete.asp

--
"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden;
it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet.

Mike

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 04:57:02 GMT,=?Utf-8?B?QmFycnlH?=
penned this whopper in
microsoft.public.windowsme.general

B.J, undelete looks good, but it's only for WinNT kernel not Win9X,
and you have to have it BEFORE the files were deleted.



Thanks for catching that. Used to be one for 9x systems also, but thing of
the past. There are some others out there, including the one in (yuck)
system works and some other freebies a quick search turns up. Iolo has one
I have used for years that does a half decent job for not much $.

--
"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden;
it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet.

Mike