Recover unsaved work

[HuskerInLostWages]

Cool feature this autosave or autoreovery thing. Didn't find it, but good info to know. Is this how the FBI tracks info? They say once you type something it is never ever deleted.

Nothing ever gets deleted because when you do a simple delete from windows, it's still there but removed from view. It will be there until the drive itself over rights that area where the "deleted" data resided(which normally doesn't happen anytime soon). If you want to remove data completely, you run a program from a boot cd that will go over the whole drive with 1's and 0's around 7-9 times and then data becomes so garbled it's no longer useful and unrepairable.

Disclaimer: DO NOT RUN THESE TYPES OF PROGRAMS, THEY WILL FORMAT YOUR ENTIRE DRIVE AND I HOLD NO RESPONSIBILITY IF YOU ATTEMPT TO USE THEM.

I will keep this in my "Oops, I really messed up and now I am on the run." cache

I have to use the disclaimer unfortunately. I informed a user I did work for how to do this and he did it on hiw own and then blamed me for his stupidity in formatting his hard drive and losing everything. He apparently thought it only over wrote what he deleted rather than everything on the drive.

Sorry, I appreciate your help and I didn't mean to be sarcastic. Question that I have wondered when watching all my true crime shoes, when the FBI examines a computer, how do they effeciently look over every keystroke? Is it manpower or is there some special software.

They install some sort of software that they have created with backdoors. I don't exactly what they use as i've never done or seen their forensics software. I also knew you weren't being sarcastic, just wanted you to know why i made the disclaimer.

 

[krc1995]

thank you, it worked. I can't really say how, it just appeared