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When their files and documents get lost, corrupted, or permanentLy deleted, your users may turn to you to recover files they can't find or open. You can simplify your role as "File Rescuer" with robust file recovery tools and a keen understanding of the file recovery process.
To help you become a file rescue superhero, we'll:
* Describe how and why you can often recover deleted files.
* Recover files from hard drives, floppy disks, USB drives, and other media using Recover My Files.
* Run the program from CD or floppy disk so you don't have to install it on a client.
* Illustrate the utility's LAN feature to recover files on any network PC.
* Application: Recover My Files 3.84
* Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP
Just before you're about to leave for home, you receive a call with a familiar problem. A user has lost a critical file and needs it recovered-now. Normally, you can retrieve deleted files from the Windows Recycle Bin. But even the Recycle Bin can't recover files that a user physically deleted from the disk or those otherwise corrupted. Also, the Windows Recycle Bin can't recover files from floppy disks, USB drives, flash memory cards, or other external media. And of course, after you empty the Recycle Bin, its stored files are gone for good. Or are they? With a bit of know-how and Recover My Files from GetData, you can recover those files with a quick rescue mission.
Why you can recover deleted files
A recovery program like GetData's Recover My Files picks up where the Recycle Bin leaves off. It works its magic because of the way Windows deletes files. Even when you empty the Recycle Bin, Windows doesn't physically remove files from disk. Rather, the OS marks those file clusters as available. Until you overwrite those clusters with new data, the original files still exist on the disk, and you can often recover them. With a tool like Recover My Files, you can also bring back files from floppies, USB drives, flash cards, and other external devices.
When recovering deleted files, however, you (and hopefully your users) should remember the motto, "The sooner, the better." Saving additional files to the disk...