promo1313 Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 I accidentally had all of the torrents in the program selected, and i tried to delete 1 torrent +file, and it deleted my whole list of torrents. 500 + and their files!!Where does that go? and is it recoverable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shashank Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 the same thing happened with me.. any solutions?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAbReAkA Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 google - file recovery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
promo1313 Posted March 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 what do you mean by: google - file recoveryfind a program? i just downloaded a program called getdata back, and im scanning, but it hasen't finished 250g external takes 6 hours!!!!ill keep u posted. anyone used this program before? im not sure if im suppose to do the recovery on the external drive that im saving the files on or the C drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
promo1313 Posted March 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 and how does like 25g of files just disappear into thin air with no trace??does it get compressed into a temporary file or something?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terence Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 The files probably didn't disappear if they are not on the same hard drive as your OSand you didn't write anything to that drive afterward.When files are deleted, instead of being physically removed,they are simply marked as deleted and the space becomes free to bewritten by any programs.Once new things are written on top of them, you can't recover them any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Alderaan Posted March 20, 2007 Report Share Posted March 20, 2007 The files aren't really removed. Whenever you delete something from a hard disk (doesn't matter if its FAT or NTSF, Linux or Windows) they delete the reference to it in the HD catalog (File allocation Table). This means the data is actually still there and you can recover it with numerous programs out there. However the data is marked as 'free' and new data can be placed on top of it when you copy, move or download things to the same drive/partition. If this happens the files affected will not be recoverable anymore. So besides finding decent undelete/file recovery software you also have to try and stop moving, copying and downloading to that drive.6 hours for a 250 GB drive is kinda long. But a lot of programs use a lot of different means to find your data. Unusually the shorter it takes the bigger the chance it doesn't find your data. However you can always try a quick scan (somewhere between 5 to 30 minutes on a 250GB drive) and if you can't find your stuff go in deep. That is if the software you found supports different scans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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