Undeleting Files

[Julzzey]

Hi,

My mom teaches in an inner city high school and someone broke into their school and stole a bunch of stuff. They have a security system, but whoever broke in broke into the computer and deleted the files. From what I understand the information isn't really gone though because they didn't reformat the drive. The disk is only supposed to have 500 mB of free space and it has 4 gigs so we know it's still there. Does XP have a built in retrieval program? Does anyone have any recommendations on how we should go about accessing that information? Thanks for your help!!

 

[linney]

You could try using these data recovery tools and see if they help.

http://www.restorer2000.com

http://www.runtime.org/hints.htm

All XP has is backup (if you use it) and System Restore which is mainly for restoring programs and settings but not data.

 

[shmoes]

keep in mind, as you add stuff to the harddrive it will start to write over recoverable stuff.

it's best to install any recovery tools on another harddrive .. or if possible from a floppy.

~Shmoes

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