Ok ive just lost a file, well the file is there but not accessible, ill explain, please read. ok i use a small software package to create computer games, my last game i have been working on for the last month, its taken me ages to create where im up to and something happened about 10.30 last nite. I was just finishing something off and went to execute my program to test it, during executing the bar stuck and went back to my game creation program, i then thought ok something not right ill save it just incase, while saving again the saving bar reached the end and then it stuck for about 3minutes, anyways i get this message saying "couldnt save file" and then program exits, i went into my computer and the file says it contains 0 bytes, also the backup file says 0 bytes. Now i thought ohh its just lost in memory or something i know ill leave my laptop off overnight and try it again in the morning, i load the laptop up and again the file says 0 bytes and when i go to open it says "could not open, file is corrupt". since i never delete old file just overwrite the old 1 searching for recently deleted files was useless as i only ever overwrite files. i was shocked that the backup had gone also. Ok thats the story and this is what i need: 1. is they any way i can get my file back? at the minute it says 0kb which means its gone forever, but can i somehow repair it? anybody know of programs. 2. somebody mentioned chkdsk /f and it does something to the clusters but im unsure how this works. 3. i tried a system restore but everytime i try and restore it says restore was incomplete, i dont get why it wont restore my system either. any ideas of how i can get the file back? im willing to try anything really. p.s i downloaded undeletefile 2.0 and nothing, all it found were example files i had deleted as i didnt need these anymore. thanks, mark
Try Recover My Files Data Recovery Software for Hard Drives : Recover Deleted Files with Recover My Files Have you never ever deleted the file just once? if so it should be able to find it, and if its been overwritten, it will say, if you can recover it, it will say something like very good. Apart from that, when it was saving it looks like its screwed the file, i dont think there is a way to repair it, if you cant find it using Recover My Files, looks like its gone i am afraid :<
lol ive used this program before for searching for files, as i say dude i just overwite the file usally, i dont save itt as another copy, i remember doig a few rar files before to send to people but thats about it, and that was about a week or so ago but ive worked on like 6 screens since then, i worked real hard until christmas eve and then i havent done all that much since but all i have is until about 15th december which is too far back. ok ill run this program and see what it says but i dont think it will help, and i agree the data should still be there, the actual file is there but when i click it an error comes up saying "data is corrupt" and the same for the backup, also it says 0bytes so if i havent deleted it where has it gone? mystery
Check through the temporary files in documents and settings. The quickest way is to just do a search for the file using windows search. Id check your drive for bad sectors and problems which will crop up in your smart report. PassMark DiskCheckup - SMART hard drive monitoring utility Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thats through run command but if u dnt want to fiddle with that then...Go to my computer, right click on the particular drive where ur file is > properties, under tools tab there is a button to check disk/volume errors. Click that nd u will find out..
