If the software solution isn't successful for you, keep in mind that there are companies that provide data recovery in the case of disk failure, corruption, or accidental deletion. I know there's one somewhere down in NoVa, but I don't recall the name.

They do tend to be pricey, so ask yourself how much those files are worth to you.

Also keep in mind that installing new data recovery software may overwrite the location where the file was physically stored, which would probably prevent any recovery from being successful.

I'd rather recover the files myself instead of paying someone else to do it, but yeah I know those companies exist... and I'm installing data recovery stuff to a different drive than the one I'm trying to recover from.

Oh, since people keep asking me this, the file system I'm trying to store is NTFS running under WinXP.

did someone think you were fun running a mac or something? snicker

no, but file structures are very different depending on whether you're running on NTFS or FAT32 or whatever... and of course software has constraints on what OS it will run on... they were logical questions to have been asked. ^_^

i know, i was just kidding... hehe

fight!

bad mr. frosty wins the match!

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sorry I am a bit slow today

some versions of dos let you undelete.

You could invest in an old fashioned Tape Drive and use BackupExec. You have to pay for that though.

It does seem to work well for our customers though.