[littledip]

Hi i messed up a friends pc by deleting some personal files to the recycle bin, and then deleted them from the recycle bin where do they go after the recycle been hase ben emptied and can u restor them . i have been through the windows restore deal and that brought back some programs that i had lost but not the personal files can any body help me please thank you this is that littledip**** that screwed up this pc .

[Elvandil]

Chances are not good. Running System Restore probably destroyed them completely.

But if any remain, you should stop using that machine right away. The more you use it, the more files will be lost. Take the drive out and put it in another machine and then try recovery programs.

Free recovery applications:

1) Recover Files
2) Recuva
3) Restoration
4) Free Undelete (NTFS only)
5) Softperfect File Recovery
6) ADRC Data Recovery Tools
7) Undelete Plus
8) Data Recovery
9) PCI File Recovery
10) DriveRescue
11) Ultimate Data Recovery
12) Disk Investigator

Commercial:

Paragon Mount Everything (Mounts any file system, CD/DVD burning, File Manager, Partitioner)
GetDataBack (For FAT or NTFS)
Ontrack EasyRecovery Pro
File Scavenger
Recover My Files
RecoverPlus Pro
Zero Assumption Recovery
Active@ File Recovery
Final Recovery
Recover4All Professional
Easeus Data Recovery Wizard
NTFS Recovery