I deleted a document that is very important!!! Please help me!!!

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So this is what I did. I wrote a very important essay due tomorrow. I highlighted all of my documents and dragged them onto the C:\ drive. From the C:\ drive I dragged them into the recycle bin and then deleted them from there. I restarted my computer and noticed that I don't have any documents at all!! Can somebody please help me retrieve them??? I really need them and your help will be highly appreciated!!! Thanks!!!
 

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Welcome to Vistax64. :)

I've personally never had to use any program to recover anything (never deleted anything I didn't want to).

Although you can try Uneraser if you would like.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom | Whitebox
    CPU
    Intel E6750 @ 3.80GHz
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L (Revision 1.1)
    Memory
    2x2GB OCZ Reaper 1066MHz @ 1080MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA nVidia GTX 260 896mb (216 Core) FTW Edition
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC888
    Monitor(s) Displays
    21" VIZIO TV
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050 @ 60Hz
    Hard Drives
    Western Digital WD6401AALS - 640GB
    Hitachi HDP725016GLA380 - 160GB
    PSU
    Corsair 750W
    Case
    NZXT Nemesis Elite
    Cooling
    Thermaltake SpinQ
    Keyboard
    Logitech Wireless Y-RAK73
    Mouse
    Logitech Wireless Y-RAK73 - Microsoft Wireless Arc Mouse
    Internet Speed
    Download: 1.5mbps, Upload: 290kbps

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom | Whitebox
    CPU
    Intel E6750 @ 3.80GHz
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L (Revision 1.1)
    Memory
    2x2GB OCZ Reaper 1066MHz @ 1080MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA nVidia GTX 260 896mb (216 Core) FTW Edition
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC888
    Monitor(s) Displays
    21" VIZIO TV
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050 @ 60Hz
    Hard Drives
    Western Digital WD6401AALS - 640GB
    Hitachi HDP725016GLA380 - 160GB
    PSU
    Corsair 750W
    Case
    NZXT Nemesis Elite
    Cooling
    Thermaltake SpinQ
    Keyboard
    Logitech Wireless Y-RAK73
    Mouse
    Logitech Wireless Y-RAK73 - Microsoft Wireless Arc Mouse
    Internet Speed
    Download: 1.5mbps, Upload: 290kbps
Two ways,

First anything you write to your HD now might overwrite that doc you want back.
If you install anything - try to do it on another partition.

If it has been deleted fro recycle bin , you should easily find it with free Glaryutilities Undelete module.

Try "other builds" - the bottom link of the three

Glary Utilities

Or you can use free ShadowExplorer - to look in your shadow copies - if a shadow copy was made before the file disappeared - it will be there to "export". i.e. copy back.

ShadowExplorer.com - About


So this is what I did. I wrote a very important essay due tomorrow. I highlighted all of my documents and dragged them onto the C:\ drive. From the C:\ drive I dragged them into the recycle bin and then deleted them from there. I restarted my computer and noticed that I don't have any documents at all!! Can somebody please help me retrieve them??? I really need them and your help will be highly appreciated!!! Thanks!!!
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Vista
    CPU
    Intel E8400
    Motherboard
    ASRock1333-GLAN R2.0
    Memory
    4gb DDR2 800
    Graphics Card(s)
    nvidia 9500GT 1gb
  • Operating System
    win7/vista
    CPU
    intel i5-8400
    Motherboard
    gigabyte b365m ds3h
    Memory
    ballistix 2x8gb 3200
Have you found it yet?
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Vista
    CPU
    Intel E8400
    Motherboard
    ASRock1333-GLAN R2.0
    Memory
    4gb DDR2 800
    Graphics Card(s)
    nvidia 9500GT 1gb
  • Operating System
    win7/vista
    CPU
    intel i5-8400
    Motherboard
    gigabyte b365m ds3h
    Memory
    ballistix 2x8gb 3200
Yeah, you found it?

Shadow Explorer works well. Thing is, you have to have the Windows Shadow Copy service enabled.

If you delete something using <shift>-<delete> or through emptying your Recycle Bin, and you turned that service off, you're not getting that doc back.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Hewlett-Packard dv6936us
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Duo "Merom" T5750, 2 GHz, stock clocking
    Motherboard
    stock Quanta 30D2, v.792E
    Memory
    4 GHz, 667 MHz bus speed
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS, stock
    Sound Card
    stock Realtek software-based
    Monitor(s) Displays
    stock 15.4" widescreen
    Screen Resolution
    stock 1280 X 800
    Hard Drives
    stock Toshiba MK2546GSX and a Western Digital 1TB MyBook
    PSU
    stock
    Case
    stock
    Cooling
    stock plus Rocketfish model RF-LAPCOL
    Keyboard
    stock
    Mouse
    stock Synaptics Pointing Device
    Internet Speed
    Ludicrous Speed (~10.9 Mbps, more or less)
    Other Info
    Browser: Namoroka v1.9.2.3666 64-bit build. Computer specs:
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