There are file recovery programs, but I can't point you to any specific one that's free. The _real_ problem with recovering deleted files is the way the file system works. If you've had _any_ hard disk activity at all since deleting those files; and in Windows, it's virtually impossible not to have, since the swap file, if nothing else, guarantees hard drive activity; it's very possible that the space that was being used by the files you deleted may have already been reassigned and used by some other file. When you delete a file, you don't _really_ delete the file, only the entry for it in (I think this is right) the file allocation table, or FAT. The actual file contents remain on the drive. When you try to recover the deleted file, the first thing the program does is to check the entry in the FAT, go to the address that's stored there for the start of the file data on the disk, then it makes sure that all of the blocks that were assigned to the file you deleted are still assigned to that file. If some other program has written over even one block that was assigned to your old file, the file chain will be broken and the file will be unrecoverable.
There used to be a program that was included as part of the Norton Utilities package that would recover files and it was completely accessible. I'm sure that there are programs around today that will work with all versions of Windows that would be equally accessible--there's nothing inherent in the nature of such a program that would make it inaccessible, since there's very little to be displayed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "ashish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 7:15 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] recovering some deleted files hello friends, I accidentally deleted some useful files from my computer and recycle bin, I have heard some program which can retrieve them , I want to know is any of them accessible with jaws? if yes please tell me where can I get it, take care, regards, ashish --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JAWS Users List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jaws-users-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
