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Where can an accidentally deleted file be if not in the recycle bin and the recycle bin has not been emptied?
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∙ 15y ago
When you delete a file in the windows world, the file is not physically removed from the disk, but the space it occupied is just flagged as being empty.
In actuality what happens is the file name is changed and the data will remain so long as no new data is overwritten on that space.
So, providing you havent saved a lot of new files, or moved files around a lot (such as a defrag) the data should still be intact on the disk.
There are several freeware & shareware programs out there for recovering deleted files. Google something along the lines of "freeware undelete"
There are no guarantees, its a largely hit & miss affair. Even in ideal conditions, I've found i can succsessfully recover files about 50% of the time.
Be advised, however, that the process of downloading & installing any new software (including the undelete programs i just mentioned) may overwrite the data you're hoping to recover. If you have any way to run that undelete program without writing anything to your hard disk... such as running it from a thumb drive or cdrom.... it would greatly increase your odds of actually getting your lost file(s) back.
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