Restore a deleted Excel Workbook?

[Ashby]

by accident, a workbook has been deleted from my C Drive and also cleared
from the Recycle bin.

Is there any way to restore this from the "guts" of the computer?

[Ian]

Your only chance may be a professional data recovery company, assuming the
area on the hard drive hasn't been overwritten. You won't know that till
they try, by which time you will have run up a bill!

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Ian
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"Ashby" <Ashby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F5F31388-2799-4928-9768-CA11DBE932BD@microsoft.com...
> by accident, a workbook has been deleted from my C Drive and also cleared
> from the Recycle bin.
>
> Is there any way to restore this from the "guts" of the computer?

[Tim Williams]

Lots of options if you look on google...
Depends on how much it's worth to get it back. If it took more than a
couple of hours then you should spring for some software (assuming it
works...)

Tim

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Tim Williams
Palo Alto, CA


"Ashby" <Ashby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F5F31388-2799-4928-9768-CA11DBE932BD@microsoft.com...
> by accident, a workbook has been deleted from my C Drive and also cleared
> from the Recycle bin.
>
> Is there any way to restore this from the "guts" of the computer?

[David McRitchie]

Don't expect to consistently be able to recover a deleted file.
I don't know what additional consequences you have by first moving to
Recycle Bin and then deleting because I don't know if files are renamed there.

For NTFS files try here and proceed to the utility's site.
FreeUndelete v1.0
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...5,tk,lg,00.asp

For other files
PC INSPECTOR File Recovery
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/download.htm

Some links to others
Disk Utilities - backup, recovery, status (#refUtil)
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/backup.htm#refUtil

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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

"Tim Williams" <timjwilliams at gmail dot com> wrote in message news:uK5IwBsoFHA.3316@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Lots of options if you look on google...
> Depends on how much it's worth to get it back. If it took more than a
> couple of hours then you should spring for some software (assuming it
> works...)
>
> Tim
>
> --
> Tim Williams
> Palo Alto, CA
>
>
> "Ashby" <Ashby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F5F31388-2799-4928-9768-CA11DBE932BD@microsoft.com...
> > by accident, a workbook has been deleted from my C Drive and also cleared
> > from the Recycle bin.
> >
> > Is there any way to restore this from the "guts" of the computer?
>
>

[NickHK]

Ashby,
I know FileScavenger works well:
http://www.quetek.com

The demo version can retrieve files if they are less than 64K(?) in size.
Otherwise you need to pay, US$40 or so. Worth it.

NickHK

"Ashby" <Ashby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F5F31388-2799-4928-9768-CA11DBE932BD@microsoft.com...
> by accident, a workbook has been deleted from my C Drive and also cleared
> from the Recycle bin.
>
> Is there any way to restore this from the "guts" of the computer?