You did not say what file system you are using. I would assume that
you left the default when you installed XP, in which case it would be NTFS.
If so, here is a little Undelete utility that's free for personal use:
http://officerecovery.com/freeundelete/
For FAT, you could try:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,23069-order,1-page,1-c,utilities/description.html
I hasten to add, that I don't use any of these,because when I screw
up I pull real doozies, like reformat an entire drive, before I
realize that I forgot to copy over a subdirectory full of data, to
the new data drive. Oh, well... so I usually need industrial-strength
stuff. I use (and have used for years) OnTrack's EasyRecovery:
http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/file-recovery-software/
Not cheap, but it has saved my bacon myriad times before I wised up
(took me only 20 years of computing) and started backing up data
every night, automatically to 2 different drives - one external and
one internal. Programs I don't care about, since I can always reinstall them.
For NTFS file system formats I use R-Studio: http://www.r-studio.com/
I am sure you can find demos or time-limited versions of all of the
above by Googling them.
There is ONE lethally serious caveat: DO NOT USE the drive on which
the files that you want recover were. The ONLY way you cannot recover
a file is if you over-write the space that used to be occupied by that file.
That's why, if you really want to "erase" a disc, you must nuke it,
shred it, etc. by over-writing the entire drive with 1s (for
instance). if you want to dispose of a drive and want to make sure
that information is not recovered from it, you must use software that
prevents or hinders techniques of hard disk forensic analysis.
Hope this helps.
Good luck! (I know the feeling)
Andrew
At 04:54 AM 11/4/2007, Imran wrote:
> I am using windows xp with SP2. I have deleted my excel data file
> and a movie file from D drive. Unfortunately I have deleted the
> same from recycle bin also. Now I would like to have the same files
> back in my system. Could you pls. suggest me how can retrive the data?
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