Any way to recover a lost file?

[Zan Dische]

I had a couple of files saved on a floppy that was recently damaged. I suspect the damage was magnetic, but either way I'm not able to access the files on the disk, and I didn't have the latest versions saved on my hard drive. Before I use a utility like Norton Disk Doctor, I thought I might see if I could recover the lost files out of a Temp file. In Windows Explorer, I found one of the files I needed, except that it was a much older version than the one I had last used on my computer. (The version I found was several days older than the last version I had saved to my floppy disk.)

I've heard that the computer caches all documents and files and was wondering if this is true, and if there is a way to recover such documents besides finding them in the TEMP folder. Any suggestions, or am I out of luck?

Thanks!

Zan

[SARGE]

Depending on the damage and how badly you need the files, there are companies who specialize in data recovery (gov't and police agencies especially :D ). For a price $$

[Zan Dische]

Nah, I was hoping I could do it myself...it's not important enough that I'd pay to have them recovered, but it is a bit of work I'd like to not have to do over again.

If there isn't a way I can go in myself and find the files cached somewhere on my hard drive, then I guess I'll use Norton on the disk on Monday and see if that turns up anything.

If not...back to the drawing board, I guess. (And more prudent backups)

Thanks for your reply!

[racerbrownn]

there is a file recovery program that heard tell works great that is shareware at download.com. just search for file recovery etc and you should be able to find it. its free for 30 days i think.