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Deleted files can be restored but YMMV.
It doesn't matter in which folder files were. When you delete them you just delete entries from file-system table. Files are still there on the harddrive. But (there is always a but) if you did lot's of writing on the hardrive after you deleted the files some of sectors where old files were might be overwritten. So some of salvaged files might be corrupt.
I recomend following:
Don't use the computer that you want your files slavaged from anymore. The less you use it the greater chances of salvaging your files intact are. There is a utility for XP called GetDataBack. It works well.
Use this utility and find out how much you can get back. Hopefully most of it is OK. If not and you need them really really much you can take the USB drive to data forensic company. I used IBAS and they should be one of the best in bussines. It's not cheap so you have to weight the value of files. They can open the drives and read the data direct from platters. I believe we are talking about 1-3k$
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