I don't unfortunately. (I assume you've looked in the recycle bin and you
don't have a backup.) If you don't get any helpful replies then you could
try posting to news:microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support, I think
you'll be more likely to get some help there.

Hope you manage to recover your files.

Brian.

www.cryer.co.uk/brian

Greetings

Hmmm... Depends what you have done, when & how...etc...

You can get trial versions of some recovery software e.g. "Search & Recover"
(by iolo I think) which may be of help. They tend to be crippled in some
way, as well as time-limited, but they may possibly be of help nevertheless.

Fast? Very likely.

Friendly? Hopefully.

Not outrageously expensive? Not a chance in hell.

Ontrack are the market leaders and are reputed to be very (read scarily)
good. Get a quote at http://www.ontrack.co.uk/datarecovery/servicequote.asp

My pleasure.

Chris

I used OnTrack EasyRecovery, which wasn't dirt cheap but which successfully
recovered the majority of files from a folder on a Jaz cart that WinXP had
helpfully decided to delete (this was during boot-up and was the final
straw that drove me to Linux). You can download the software (on another
machine - but you knew that). www.ontrack.com

Best of luck.

@+

The safest thing to do is mirror your hard-drive every once in a while
(exclude media and application files). Nothing beats it and I do this twice
a week. I keep a stack of three mirrors for excessive safety and also
because space allows. Only a week and a half ago it saved me from losing my
mail archives from 2003 and 2004. Thunderbird was pushed to the extreme and
lost data. You can also confirm that your filestore is in a sane state by
comparing the total volume of the mirrors.

A colleague of mine who uses Windows chose "search & Recover" IIRC. He
wasn't successful though. I remember the days of MS-DOS and undelete. I
could never figure out the first letter of the files...

Roy

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You know my telephone number and where I live. I have various Undelete
tools, but you can probably locate them yourself.

That said, XP does background disk maintenance, so you'll be
lucky...Sorry!

Matt

Can't you just use "undelete" from the DOS command line?

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Not safely if it's an NTFS volume

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hrmm ...

yes, the recycle bin was checked

no, there isn't a backup

I managed to squeeze a little more info - A profile/account thingie in
Thunderbird was deleted taking out the file store with it.

Thanks, but just to be clear - this is not /my/ PC which is *not* running
XP or t/bird.

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http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/collectio...lid,1295,00.asp

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You might want to check in the subfolders under "Documents and
Settings" - go to the "whatever the user's name is" subfolder, then
Applications then Mozilla and wander around in there.

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I give up - at last I thought a useful purpose for the forum 4 design
site, I could mail the url to the chap with the lost files so he can read
all the wonderful replies for himself. This thread ain't listed. So I
check through the archive at google groups and only Miranda's post is
present - hopeless.

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