Windows 10: Recovering/Destroying Deleted Files

When files are deleted from a disk volume, surely they're erased forever, right? Wrong! They can still be recovered with a deep scan of the disk sector and marked for recovery or destruction. Such include Recuva, DiskGenius or EaseUS. To recover or destroy files on a disk volume, choose one to deep scan for deleted files. You then recover them usually to another disk volume to be made available again or destroy them overwriting the files to permanently prevent any recovery whatsoever.

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How to recover files off a HDD from a deleted partition? help!!!

Thanks for your reply. I used my m8s program and it worked like a dream, recovered all the files and also deleted ones from yrs back, was amazed how well it did. Next step is i will use that Partition Table Doctor to recover the deleted partition. Thanks for the link *Toast :toast:

 

Recover deleted files from recycle bin?

EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard.

I have deleted accidentally 2TB files, all recovered back.

 

recover deleted data???

That was the word on the street (so to speak) all the way back to the DOS days.
Files are never really erased by the OS. Most every OS just marks the Directory entry for the file, that it was deleted. In the olden days, the filename "Mark.txt" would look like "?ark.txt".

PCTools had an undelete command in it's file manager. All you had to do was provide the first letter for a deleted file and PCTools would recover the file for you.

But if someone had deleted files and then did a defrag, well it was 99% certain that any deleted file was overwritten and gone forever.
Many logs are written to during bootup and can overwrite deleted file space, so the less activity performed on a drive after file deletion, the better the chance of recovering those files.

I too would like to know the name of that recovery program. I have one tucked away someplace but right now I don't even remember the name of it.*Confused

Cheers Mates!
The Shadow*Cool