Philotic Web

Hi everyone. Haven't been around in a while. Missed ya!

Anyhow, last night a bunch of stuff was erased off my computer. Pictures, word documents, etc. I was wondering if there was any free program or any computer capabilities that that will help me retrieve all of the files. I downloaded a program that allowed me to retrieve about half of the missing files.

Also, I downloaded about four or five different programs and some of them found the missing files, gave me a preview of those files but then told me I needed to purchase the program to retrieve everything. Unfortunately, I do not have the money to buy anything but I really want to those files back.

Can anybody help me? I know that a lot of the people on here are computer literate geeky supernerds and so was wondering about getting some help. I've been to about a dozen different websites but they don't really help me at all because the programs they recommend must be purchased.

Thanks in advance.

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Except... you shouldn't be doing ANYTHING on the computer in which you deleted the files on, including downloading. Why? Because you will probably over-write the files you deleted and you'll never be able to get them back. Still, you might be able to recover them with this program still. Download it using a different computer and put it on a flash drive. Then open the program on the flash drive and recover the files that way.

I used DiskInternals NTFS REader to recover files off an Hd that had been dead and shuttered for two years.

Thanks Wil