Some of the commercially available undelete programs do work pretty well at recovery. I think you can get some at Downloads.com. I have used Active Undelete a few times and it normally will work. When XP deletes files it doesn't really erase them it just takes them out of the directory and flags the sectors for reuse. Check out active-undelte.com
Mark Lindner Lindner & Associates PC 254 Second Ave Needham MA 02494 781 247 1100 Fax 781 247 1143 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul InterlockInfo Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 3:58 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Off-Topic Deleted Files XP - Recover Oh, Just a little problem that happened. This program with sub-dir's needed to be reloaded (not mine at all) when it removed itself it also delete ALL sub-dir (but this was fine because the tech 1 and 2 felt he had FTP'ed the files - but a power outage broke the connection and he felt (a different auto tech) felt all was fine). Tech 1 goes ahead with the reinstall - wipes the program and sub-dir's and starts with a clean slate and reinstall the program and sub-dir's. I believe with all the space on this disk and not being defragged it could all be there. But I also do not want to guess and experiments here and destroy the data with mistakes trying. Out of this however, I did find out that my FTP hosts was able to review deleted files and assured me also that if they arrived even if part he could have recovered them then If he need to go to a restore backup , it was possible for about $150.00 and he could go back at least 30 days. But it never got uploaded from this laptop. Crap, I back up daily and two or three times and archive. But it has to get on the server first. Oh ya - Mike B and I were talking about grabbing these files and loading them and archiving in a place that nobody knew about. For safety sakes! In case they got deleted accidently or on purpose. See! Sincerely, Paul Dewey
