How To Retrieved Permanently Erased Data On Hdd?

[animecluster 0]

Can anyone help me how to retrieved permanently erased file on HDD. I accidentaly Shift+delete my important file and i want to retrieved it. .

[yordan 10]

See if "undelete" is still free, should work in that case.

[wutske 0]

1) DON'T USE YOUR COMPUTER ! The data is still there but there's just nothing referring to it and it's still recoverable. If it gets overwritten then it's lost (ps. this is only true for magnetic disks, if you have an SSD then you're screwed as soon as the trimming process is started).
2) There are plenty tools available on the internet, a simple one to use is http://www.piriform.com/recuva (ps. don't install it on your pc, you'll probably overwrite the important file ). I think it has a portable mode for installing it on a usb disk or something, just try it on another pc .

[derekchoi2 0]

What kind of file is it? try photorec. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

It recognizes 320 file types, http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

I recently accidentally formatted an SD card, and photorec revovered 1500 files, only has 2 corrupt, which is pretty good.

It works on :
DOS/Win9x
Windows NT 4/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7
Linux
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
Sun Solaris
Mac OS X
(can be compiled on any UNIX os)

I did mine on ubuntu, but it should work on os's stated above.

hope you can retrieve your file!!

[Atomic0 0]

One thing to remember, install the Undeletion application on a hard disk or storage device that does not contain the accidentally deleted files. Otherwise, if you end up installing on the some hard disk / storage device, you may end up overwriting the accidentally deleted files (data is still intact, only reference to files is deleted) before you are able to recover it and losing all the accidentally deleted data.Although if the accidentally deleted files are not recoverable by software means, there may still be a remote possibility of recovery by specialised data recovery experts, although these data recovery services are expensive and the data probably isn't worth as much as the service cost.