If you deleted something in error, using shift+delete, is it really, really permanently deleted. Is there any way it can be recovered?
Please, please, please.
Please, please, please.
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PC help please.
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Pretty much anything can be recovered.
To maximise your chances don't do any file operations on the PC for now.
To maximise your chances don't do any file operations on the PC for now.
seagullondon
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Have you tried turning it off and on again?
deletebeepbeepbeep
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Don't turn off your computer or save or do anything else and you might be able to retrieve it using
Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File and Disk Recovery - Free Download
With any luck it should be okay as long as your only deleted it recently an haven't downloaded or moved a bunch of other files.
Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File and Disk Recovery - Free Download
With any luck it should be okay as long as your only deleted it recently an haven't downloaded or moved a bunch of other files.
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You mean like frantically reopening file manager ten times in the next five minutes, hoping the folder would magically reappear?
Eric Potts
Well-known member
Perhaps not .
Seriously though , someone may do this : so best not take this advice folks.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
If you actually google this, the first results are banned users from forums telling people to do it!
You mean like frantically reopening file manager ten times in the next five minutes, hoping the folder would magically reappear?
No, that's fine. I meant creating, moving, copying other files.
Try the tool mentioned on this thread.
When you delete, the PC doesn't actually delete the file, it just marks the hard drive space as being available for use. So, as long as you don't write anything over that space the file will be recoverable.
skipper734
Registered ruffian
You mean like frantically reopening file manager ten times in the next five minutes, hoping the folder would magically reappear?
Take it too the Pink coloured computer place in the parade of shops on Winchester Road down from Summerfields, if DIY fails. They got some stuff off of my old lappy.
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Thanks. It's a work laptop, for which I have no admin rights. Hopefully this will not prevent them from helping.
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
Not a good idea, Gary Glitter took his PC to a computer shop to get it fixed and he ended up in prison
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The local PC shop could maybe recover the images from the card in my camera?
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This is kind of the opposite to his situation. I WANT the pictures recovered!
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Not a good idea, Gary Glitter took his PC to a computer shop to get it fixed and he ended up in prison
This is kind of the opposite to his situation. I WANT the pictures recovered!
Yes. But don't pay anything more than a fiver or tenner for convenience, as it's straight forward to do at minimal/no cost.
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Right. I've now succeeded in downloading recuva to another laptop, but the recovery software refuses to see the camera as an external drive.
The camera is visible through file manager, but as a camera rather than a drive.
Aaargh..
Any ideas how to get round that [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION]?
The camera is visible through file manager, but as a camera rather than a drive.
Aaargh..
Any ideas how to get round that [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION]?
Except your files encrypted by UKASH ransomware.
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Actually scratch that. This old laptop has a built in memory card reader. Whoop whoop.
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many thanks kind people. My bacon is saved. Phew.