I seem to have deleted a critical file of mine by mistake. I have no idea
how and little idea when (though I remember accessing it last month, so it
couldn't have been that long ago. It's not in the recycle bin because I
empty it regularly. Last month I was asking if a simple reformat would
delete everything on a hard drive I was selling on embay, and the response
got on this (and other) newsgroups was that reformatting a drive only
deletes the references to the information but that it's still actually on
there until something else is written over it or I use a program like BC
Wipe. So I'm thinking that the file I want is still on my hard drive though
I can't see it in Windows. How can I go about recovering this file? It's
really critical that I get it back. Any help I could get would much
appreciated, to put it mildly.
how and little idea when (though I remember accessing it last month, so it
couldn't have been that long ago. It's not in the recycle bin because I
empty it regularly. Last month I was asking if a simple reformat would
delete everything on a hard drive I was selling on embay, and the response
got on this (and other) newsgroups was that reformatting a drive only
deletes the references to the information but that it's still actually on
there until something else is written over it or I use a program like BC
Wipe. So I'm thinking that the file I want is still on my hard drive though
I can't see it in Windows. How can I go about recovering this file? It's
really critical that I get it back. Any help I could get would much
appreciated, to put it mildly.
