Recover deleted files

How many times have you deleted a file, emptied the Recycle Bin, and then had that sinking feeling in your gut. You need one of those files. Or maybe you just had a hard-disk crash, and suddenly all the files have disappeared.

I'll tell you how to recover your files, and show you how to do it, in this video.

For this example, I'm going to use a USB drive. But the same thing applies to most data drives. If your disk is still readable by the computer, you can recover all kinds of cool stuff.

See when you delete data it's not actually wiped off the disk. When a file is written to the disk, its location is noted. So the system knows where to go to read that file--kind of like a book index.

When you delete a file, the system removes the entry in the table. The file appears to be gone. This is akin to me blacking out or even tearing out the entry in the book's index.

The file itself stays on the machine, though. Just like Page 9 is still in the book even if I rip out the index page that refers to Page 9. But don't forget the computer thinks that location was empty. So if another file was written to that area, you may only recover part of a file.

Regardless of how your lost file was deleted, if you haven't performed many--if any--operations on the disk, you have a good chance of recovering it.

I'm going to use PhotoRec from cgsecurity.org, a free and open-source program, in my example. There are a lot of other programs to choose from, such as PC Inspector File Recovery.

Let's say I have a few MP3s on a USB drive, then I accidentally delete them.

No worries.

Just launch PhotoRec. Your USB thumbdrive should show up. Select it and make sure "proceed" is highlighted then press "enter."

Then you need to tell PhotoRec what kind of file system the machine uses. If it's Windows NTFS or FAT32, choose Intel. If you formatted the disk from a Mac choose "EFI" for Intel Macs and "Mac" for G4s or older.

If the disk has more than one partition, you'll need to choose which one to scan. Otherwise, choose the only partition available and make sure search is selected.

Then tell it what file system was used. FAT/NTFs/HFS for Windows and OS X, and EXT for Linux systems.

Next, you can tell it to look only at the unused space, which is faster, or if you're obsessive, choose to extract files from the whole partition.

Finally, tell the program where to store the files. It will suggest a folder based on where PhotoRec is running from. Just don't choose the drive you're scanning as the location. Then press "Y" and let it do its work.

Once it's done, look in the folder you specified earlier. You may have a lot of little pieces of files but you should also have some of the files you thought lost. If you're lucky, you may have all of them.

How to Recover your Old Blog Content

Well One can Recover their lost pages or contents with Google Cache!
• To get started simply go to Google.
• Once you are there type in your blogs url into google.
http://blogofaravind.blogspot.com
• Once that is done click on the link that looks like this:
Show Google's cache of www.blogofaravind.blogspot.com

Thats it! From their you can simply copy and paste all your old blogs' contents back to your blog.

Restore Previously Open Folders After Shutdown

If you need to access lot of folders on your home computer or on the network regularly, then you can set them re-open automatically, when you will login, shutdown or restart your computer next time. There is no need to open regularly used folders manually, just configure the simple sitting, your computer will automatically reload all the previously opened windows.

By default windows XP disables this option to reload automatically all the previously opened windows, when you login on, shutdown or restart your computer.

Follow the given steps to configure your computer to reload previously opened folders automatically after shutdown. 

• To edit this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.
• First click on Start button then go to Control Panel. 
• Open the “Appearance and Themes” option in control panel then click on Folder Options. 
• A small windows dialog box will appear with the title “Folder options”, click on View tab.
• Under the Advanced setting section, scroll down to bottom and click the “Restore previous folder windows at logon” option and then click Ok button to save sitting.
• Now when you log off, restart or shutdown, your computer will automatically open the previously opened folders from the same location as before.