Recovering lost files

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Is there any way at all to recover files that I deleted over a network? I have a computer in my basement, and I had a backup of my pictures, granted, it is 2 months old, but it still has the important pictures I want in there. I was browsing the basement computer from my computer, and I deleted the folder, since I was preparing to do a format, and was gonna zip up my current pictures folder instead. There was an error in the zipping process, I think. It says the zip archive was damaged. I was able to recover an unimportant 2 gigs of the 4.5, but lost the stuff I can never get back.

So, where do deleted files go if they're deleted from another computer? I checked the other computers recycling bin, but nothing. I thought there was a way to recover files that weren't just put in the recycling bin. Am I screwed, or what?
 
The should be in the home computer's (the one the files were on) recycling bin IIRC from when I was messing around with some stuff back home on our network. Since you deleted the folder itself with all the pictures still inside it and it is not in the recycling bin, intuition says that either someone emptied the bin or the file was too large for the recycling bin and was completely wiped off the face of the disc.

I've heard that you can recover deleted files after you empty the recycling bin, but I've not seen it done nor seen how to do it.
 
The folder was ~3.5GB, so maybe that's why it couldn't fit the the recycling bin.

No one emptied it. Trust me. No one in this house even knows how, but me.
 
There are programs that "UNdelete" files. Even files that are not even in the recycle bin. Try getting a shareware version of one to see if that works. Basically it reverses the 0s and 1s to get the information back. Good luck trying to get your stuff back.

When my HD got erased, I had to reload everything -- even the operating system. At least you still have that... 👍
 
MrktMkr1986
There are programs that "UNdelete" files. Even files that are not even in the recycle bin. Try getting a shareware version of one to see if that works. Basically it reverses the 0s and 1s to get the information back. Good luck trying to get your stuff back.

When my HD got erased, I had to reload everything -- even the operating system. At least you still have that... 👍
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And I was wondering hat programs could do that. I want one.
 
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Event Horizon
And I was wondering hat programs could do that. I want one.
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First you have to understand how deleting files works. Windows just marks the sectors on the HDD that those files take up as overwritable. So, the files actually aren't deleted, but they're just hidden from you and overwritten when something else gets written to the harddrive.

If you've written something to your HDD since the files were deleted (installed something, browser cache, office documents, etc, etc), your chances of restoring the files are slim. For an undelete program to work, it must be installed before the files were deleted and pretty much used to undelete them straight away, before they're overwritten by something else.

But, alas, you can try a program called (ironically) Undelete.
 
Found one. Saw the files. Saw the chances of them ever being recovered thrown out the window. None of them are recoverable. Gone for good. Poof. Goodbye. 🤬
 
Shannon
First you have to understand how deleting files works. Windows just marks the sectors on the HDD that those files take up as overwritable. So, the files actually aren't deleted, but they're just hidden from you and overwritten when something else gets written to the harddrive.

If you've written something to your HDD since the files were deleted (installed something, browser cache, office documents, etc, etc), your chances of restoring the files are slim. For an undelete program to work, it must be installed before the files were deleted and pretty much used to undelete them straight away, before they're overwritten by something else.

But, alas, you can try a program called (ironically) Undelete.
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Well, I knew that. I didn't know there were free programs that could do that. And, since I did a LOT of writing to that hard drive, it was all overwritten.
 

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