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Windows Vista question regarding deleted files
Computer Guru's, have a question for you.
The guy I am working with has a laptop with Windows Vista on it. He bought a USB portable hard drive to store some of his photos, music and so on while out on the road. Copied it from his laptop hard drive to the portable drive, then deleted the original files to make more room. Mistake...
One week later the USB drive is tits up. Drive powers up but the heads inside are making all sorts of difficult sounds, banging back and forth against the stops.
As usual he deleted much of the info from his laptop hard drive and its stuff that is not replaceable, and of course he did not make a CD/DVD backup. Yes he has learned but its hurting.
Two questions. Does Vista have anything like the old Norton Disk Doctor imbedded inside it where we can try to recover the old files if they have not been over-written? Second is if he did a system restore to something like two weeks ago, before he "cut and paste" the files to the USB drive, would he get the data back?
TIA,
Joe
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