Question about recycle bin and deleting items on PC

• xalkyrie

  18 Jun 07, 00:54

  I had a bunch of pictures I deleted about a year ago on my PC, I wanted to recover them again however my recycle bin doesn't have anything even close to around that date. What i'm wondering is, if I delete a picture in my documents on my PC is it p permanently erased for good? I always hear how nothing you delete is ever gone forever and that there are ways to recover everything again but i'm just wondering what the truth is, thank you.
• allentyb

  18 Jun 07, 00:56

  you can still recover it........... as long it is not corrupted
• alwaysdisturbed

  18 Jun 07, 01:18

  you can retrieve the file if the space on the hard disk which once stored the pictures you mentioned is not overwritten by other new files.
  
  but you need to fish out using softwares.
  
  basically computer writes data onto the hard disk. how the system retrieves files from the hard disk is through a 'directory' of the hard disk. when you delete a file, the system doesn't really delete the file. only the entry in the 'directory' is being removed. thats why you have a greater chance of getting it back if the file deletion is recent.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  18 Jun 07, 01:26

  So long you have not overwritten it, chances of recovering it is good.
• Anonymous User

  21 Jun 07, 10:33

  Hmmm, i dont think you can recover your pics or other files anymore.... If you use the computer like an average user does(1~2hr a day), then your comp would most likely have overwritten it already. If your HD is abt 70% full from then to now, same as above. Luck, is the keyword when recovering data from anything more than 6mths old.
• manyu882

  21 Jun 07, 11:49

  Originally posted by Anonymous User:

  Hmmm, i dont think you can recover your pics or other files anymore.... If you use the computer like an average user does(1~2hr a day), then your comp would most likely have overwritten it already. If your HD is abt 70% full from then to now, same as above. Luck, is the keyword when recovering data from anything more than 6mths old.

  some very good recovery product can sniff out bad quality datas.
• ^tamago^

  21 Jun 07, 11:55

  try and get a copy of Norton Unerase on CD, and just run it off the disc.
• The man who was death

  21 Jun 07, 14:51

  i use undelete plus to recover deleted files.....freeware and it's good...
• unclebutcher

  25 Jun 07, 21:09

  use norton ghost