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Overwritten file recovery
Name: Jemhaddar Date: August 10, 2004 at 12:34:57 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home CPU/Ram: Athlon 512
Comment:
Help please!! If my file of the same name as an older version was overwritten by the older version while I was copying the file, is there anyway to return to the newer version? Can anyone reccommend any software that will do this? Any help would be really appreciated....this file was "only" my final exam project for a semester class... :(
Name: strbux4me2 Date: August 10, 2004 at 14:51:53 Pacific
Reply:
http://www.active-undelete.com/
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Response Number 2
Name: per Date: August 10, 2004 at 15:06:31 Pacific
Reply:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html Try this. Free. The active demo only gives you 64kb recovery.
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Response Number 3
Name: wanderer Date: August 10, 2004 at 15:23:30 Pacific
Reply:
I don't want to dash your hopes but I don't believe there is any file recovery utility that will get back a file that has been overwritten.
This is due to the exact same sectors [more or less] that were occupied by the newest version were overwritten by the older version of the same file name.
This is very different then when a file is deleted. A deleted files space is marked "available" but until the system uses some of that space the file is recoverable.
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