Shift+Del

carlosvr6 · 23 Feb 2006 at 10:36

Is it possible to recover documents once they have been deleted using shift+del without the need to buy expensive s/w etc?

Priapus · 23 Feb 2006 at 10:42

Don't think it's possible, bru.

carlosvr6 · 23 Feb 2006 at 11:00

Ice On Fire said:
Don't think it's possible, bru.

Did'nt think so either.
Well some people just dont learn. We tell all the staff/teachers here every week in notices to back up their work but they prefer to learn the hard way.

Since the school has started to use electronic registration all staff have their own laptops and are setup on the admin system so all they have to do is save all their work to the S: drive on the admin server and their work would be backed up. Dont see anything hard about that myself.

SourChipmunk · 23 Feb 2006 at 11:41

I used shift-del naturally for quite awhile, until I lost a critical doc.

I now allow things to go to the recycle bin for a short stay before permanently deleting.

Roland0 · 23 Feb 2006 at 11:54

You can recover stuff its only been removed from the MFT, dont know of any programs that can recover it of the top of my head, and it can only be recovered if it hasnt been over written

am looking for a program...........

BigBoy · 23 Feb 2006 at 17:27

Why not have a batchfile setup to run as a service 2/3 times a day to back up there documents to the Admin server?

Captain-Fungi · 23 Feb 2006 at 17:54

I created a batch file that I linked to an icon. When you click the icon it copies files to where you specify and then once this has completed it shuts the computer down. The idea being that you run the script when you want to log off.

This way it sort of removes the problem of users not running a backup etc.

carlosvr6 · 24 Feb 2006 at 15:11

BigBoy said:
Why not have a batchfile setup to run as a service 2/3 times a day to back up there documents to the Admin server?

Only trouble is we dont want them to back everything on the server (personal pics, videos etc) as it will be out of space in no time. This was'nt a problem when i started here as there were only approx 26 users on the admin network but now with all the teachers using the admin network i dont think it's a good idea to let them back-up everything on the server.

All the laptops have cdrw (some have dvdrw) and all staff have a pendrive and have been shown countless of times how to use these things so i can only put it down to laziness.

Stoned_SpaZZZ said:
You can recover stuff its only been removed from the MFT, dont know of any programs that can recover it of the top of my head, and it can only be recovered if it hasnt been over written

am looking for a program...........

Any joy in finding the program mate as i'm definate nothing has been overwritten on the laptop?

BigBoy · 24 Feb 2006 at 15:18

Only trouble is we dont want them to back everything on the server (personal pics, videos etc) as it will be out of space in no time. This was'nt a problem when i started here as there were only approx 26 users on the admin network but now with all the teachers using the admin network i dont think it's a good idea to let them back-up everything on the server.

Then just backup the word docs/excel files/access files and such. Its well easy to setup and have been using a similar method on my works network for nearly 3 years.

Seft · 24 Feb 2006 at 15:34

Doesn't undelete work anymore?

Whitewater · 24 Feb 2006 at 18:29

Seft said:
Doesn't undelete work anymore?

If you mean the "Undo Delete" popup menu option in Windows Explorer (and Desktop, etc.) then no not if SHIFT+DEL are pressed

If you mean something else then I have no idea

Raumarik · 24 Feb 2006 at 18:59

Try this:

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

Used it a few times myself and it's free (or was last time I downloaded it

)

Seft · 25 Feb 2006 at 00:15

Whitewater said:
If you mean the "Undo Delete" popup menu option in Windows Explorer (and Desktop, etc.) then no not if SHIFT+DEL are pressed If you mean something else then I have no idea

Back in the good old days of DOS (and pre-2000 Windows), there was a nifty little program included called undelete.

Doesn't seem to be included from win2k onwards though