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Old June 20th 04, 03:47 PM
DAJ
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I recently made a major screw-up and deleted about 300
files that I didn't want to. I wasn't worried as I knew I
could run system restore. I ran it twice and the files
never came back! Is there any way to recover these
files? Some are music files but most are data files that
I use on a regular basis.

Help!
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Old June 20th 04, 04:02 PM
Mostly Me (MM)
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DAJ wrote:
I recently made a major screw-up and deleted about 300
files that I didn't want to. I wasn't worried as I knew I
could run system restore. I ran it twice and the files
never came back! Is there any way to recover these
files? Some are music files but most are data files that
I use on a regular basis.

Help!


Hi,
First, Win98 does not have system restore, Next, if it did, it would
only restore system files, not data. System restore in ME and XP is not
the same as a backup.

You will have to do a Google search for "data recovery". You must also
stop using the hard drive now, as sectors that still have the "deleted"
data are being written over. You must stop using it *completely* if you
want to maximize any chance of recovering some of the files.

mm
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Old June 20th 04, 05:11 PM
Rick Chauvin
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Default Recovering files

DAJ wrote:
I recently made a major screw-up and deleted about 300
files that I didn't want to. I wasn't worried as I knew I
could run system restore. I ran it twice and the files
never came back! Is there any way to recover these
files? Some are music files but most are data files that
I use on a regular basis.

Help!


There are many programs that can help you, but for instance a free program
called Restoration can help.
http://www.collina.us/files/REST2514.htm

Of course the longer you wait and keep using your computer the more likely
the items will be overwritten/lost - especially the recycle bin is the
first to be overwritten - and for these reasons to get the maximum %
possibility of recovery it's always advised not to even use the computer
that you want to recover the deleted files from so that they don't get
overwritten, and that you even download these recover programs right to a
floppy disk and then use it from there.

Rick




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Old June 21st 04, 05:39 AM
glee
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Default Recovering files

I endorse and agree with Rick Chauvin's response, if you need any further
reinforcement.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

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I recently made a major screw-up and deleted about 300
files that I didn't want to. I wasn't worried as I knew I
could run system restore. I ran it twice and the files
never came back! Is there any way to recover these
files? Some are music files but most are data files that
I use on a regular basis.

Help!


 




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