Re: how to get back deleted material?

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

What you said about writing to the disk in the interim is
important -- at least for Windows -- but I fear most users
in this situation will have come upon that advice too late.
I'm also wondering about the value of some of these Undelete
programs, like Recuva ?


 Jordan

--- On Thu, 4/1/10, mje@xxxxxxxxxxxxx  wrote:

> >     To actually recover the
> material, you ideally need a disk editor
> > that allows you to inspect any area of the disk and to
> select portions
> > of empty space to reconstruct into a new file.
>
>      I forgot to say (this is very
> important) that, if you do try using such a disk editor, you
> *must* boot up in a non-multi-tasking operating system such
> as MS-DOS, or one of those Linux boot disks that don't write
> to the disk themselves.  This will probably not work if
> you boot up in Windows (any version), and the utility may
> even refuse to run at all.
>
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>          Regards,
>                
>           Michael Edwards.
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