Urgent help - Text file deleted/missing

ThatJoe · 12 Jan 2008 at 19:45

Hey guys, yesterday i had a text file on my desktop, i check today and it's gone. I was cleaning up my desktop earlier and i may have accidently highlighted it and sent it to the recycle bin which i later emptied. I've heard that stuff is never truly deleted off the HDD and i was wondering is there any program that can retrieve the file back some how?

ThatJoe · 12 Jan 2008 at 19:57

jak731 said:
try file recovery software such as http://www.runtime.org/

Thanks, i'll give it a go now.

ThatJoe · 12 Jan 2008 at 20:02

Right, Problem with the program from runtime.org is:

ThatJoe · 12 Jan 2008 at 21:14

jak731 said:
can you not install it onto a 2nd HDD?

I don't have another

ThatJoe · 12 Jan 2008 at 21:43

SimonC said:
what about a system restore, do you have a restore point that was made yesterday?
Maybe a tad extreme though.

I've just recently installed TF2 which is around 1.5GB or more. Would a system restore get rid of TF2?