From: Gotde T Shirt on
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 06:58:45 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

> Matt <mattb95(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello. I'm looking for a piece of software that would allow me to
>> recover files that have been recently deleted from my hard drive in
>> Windows XP. When I say deleted, I mean from the recycle bin as well.
>
> Its not even possible to do that reliably if the drive is formatted HPFS.

And its relevance to this discussion is what?
From: sandy58 on
On Apr 3, 10:54 pm, Gotde T Shirt <m...(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 06:58:45 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:
> > Matt <matt...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Hello. I'm looking for a piece of software that would allow me to
> >> recover files that have been recently deleted from my hard drive in
> >> Windows XP. When I say deleted, I mean from the recycle bin as well.
>
> > Its not even possible to do that reliably if the drive is formatted HPFS.
>
> And its relevance to this discussion is what?

Rod Speed get's dizzy spells when he leaves an Oz site. He'll
recover.....in time.
From: Sleepy on


"Sjouke Burry" <burrynulnulfour(a)ppllaanneett.nnlll> wrote in message
news:47f54c3a$0$25482$ba620dc5(a)text.nova.planet.nl...
> Matt wrote:
>> Hello. I'm looking for a piece of software that would allow me to
>> recover files that have been recently deleted from my hard drive in
>> Windows XP. When I say deleted, I mean from the recycle bin as well.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Matthew Boulton
> I have used (google) pc inspector file recovery
> free, and it worked(another duplicate file wiper wiped
> a bit to well....)

for files that have just been deleted 'pc inspector file recovery'
works fine but if the drive is going bad or you've lost the FAT table or
similar
then getdataback is needed and it about �60 I think

From: kony on
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 06:58:45 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>Matt <mattb95(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello. I'm looking for a piece of software that would allow me to
>> recover files that have been recently deleted from my hard drive in
>> Windows XP. When I say deleted, I mean from the recycle bin as well.
>
>Its not even possible to do that reliably if the drive is formatted HPFS.
>

Recovering deleted files is pretty reliable... so long as
it's not on a partition that's been written to in the
interim. Another good reason not to put anything important
on a Windows OS resident partition.
From: Rod Speed on
kony <spam(a)spam.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 06:58:45 +1100, "Rod Speed"
> <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Matt <mattb95(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello. I'm looking for a piece of software that would allow me to
>>> recover files that have been recently deleted from my hard drive in
>>> Windows XP. When I say deleted, I mean from the recycle bin as well.
>>
>> Its not even possible to do that reliably if the drive is formatted
>> HPFS.
>>
>
> Recovering deleted files is pretty reliable... so long as
> it's not on a partition that's been written to in the interim.

Wrong.

> Another good reason not to put anything important
> on a Windows OS resident partition.

I dont do that with the PVR files that do get deleted ocassionally in error and cant be recovered reliably.