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How do you recover data that has been deleted?

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I have a friend who was trying to copy data from a server on a network to a folder on her local computer. But what she did was, she created a folder on the server instead of her local computer, and copied (actually moved since she was dragging and dropping the folder to be copied into a folder on the same partition of the same hard drive) the data to that folder.

When she did the action to copy/move the folder, it did not say that it was moving anything. So, she deleted the folder that she had created. But what happened was, it was copying it. So, since she actually MOVED the files and didn't copy them, she was deleting the originals. The files are not in the recycle bin (not sure if she checked both recycle bins (server and local computer).

How can she retrieve this data? Is there software she can use after the deed has been done or does she have to bring it to a data recovery place and pay big bucks?
 
Try "Magic Rescue" or "Partition Saving". "Partition Saving" is on the Ultimate Boot CD. You can google for the other one. Not sure if either of these can recover deleted files or just whole partitions. Both of these would have to be ran on the server.

I believe Norton also has an undelete tool that could be run on the server, but you'll have to pay for that of course, unless there is a trial.
 
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