HELP!!! IS IT POSSIBLE TO RECOVER LOST DOWNLOADS.

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try something here

If you don't mind me asking, what do you research?

I will ask my computer pro friend about it.

Well, some of it might still be on the hard drive and recoverable. A bit of hope remains if it wasn't overwritten by the new software install. Getting all of it back would be a miracle though. It will be tough and you will have to send the drive off to professionals. I say that because you are posting here and it would already be recovered if you knew what you were doing.

Was your free space erased?

Yep. What I was going to say. Do NOTHING else until you address this, either.

Also, don't mean to be insulting, but this is precisely why you MUST do backups from time to time to external media.

Yes its possible, NOTHING gets deleted on an HD ever (only way to remove anything permanently is to smash it to bits with a hammer). Try something like EASEUS Data Recovery, run it and it will list all recoverable files, it takes a bit to sort it out what is what after as the path to it you had no longer exists but the files are intact.
Google for a demo download of it and if it looks ok buy the real thing.... and please remember it would be very naughty to search thepiratebay.se for the full version, thats illegal.

THRUTH SEEKING CRAZY STUFF.its not what i make a living at, its just things that keep me progressing forward, in the climb back out of the rabbit hole i, i do have hand written notebooks but with all the cross referencing and personal ,double checking the various theories on this and that. i have 3young adult children and a young one and this is my me stuff. old books you run across because some obscure wonderful person allows free down loads ect. i do creative work for a living, and have never brought the organised far enough into my personal life.should of made better lists. but when in pursuit of the bottom of the rabbit hole its impossible to predict the path too organise. how will i ever help the one ive jolted? well they say every thing happens for a reason. i may have too pray and believe this or be furrious. can not go back into the same hole alot of the stuff i found by days of reading in dramtic disbelieve. thanks for asking. HELP. LOL

why.. in this age of computer knowledge... do people still not BACK THEIR SHIT UP!?

i know old excuse. flunked computer at school. then discovered i could use this machine instead of libary fines.(old person) my hobby is procrastination, plus the person that did the damage controls the back up knowledge. hes the "tech". GOT TO LOVE EM EVEN WHEN THE RECK YOUR STUFF. i think. ok i deserve it.

thank you blood pressure lowering now.

HOPE> thank you computer stupid. i might be able to sleep now. sorry about the drama. thanks for encouragement.

thanks for asking . dont know will ask the family tech. the one who messed it up.. the free space in my head is what it was all for fell like my head could be sinking in. your name is how i feel.

I need to admit, with what happened there, possible NO CHANCE to recover.

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Last Edited by Pho-neme! on 02/27/2012 03:02 AM

Sounds like you need to try out the useful mindset that is known as not giving a fuck.

When a file is deleted only the status of the file gets changed. Files are still there provided they are not overwritten by further disk write activity.

The more disk writes after the fact, the more you will potentially/probably lose.

An o/s upgrade could be a bit messy depending.

Grab easy recovery pro or easeus. Tons of free full versions floating around if you know how to get them aka torrent.

You'll need a spare drive to restore to. Dont save any files or chage any data on the hard drive in the meantime.

Have done this several times across some crazy drive setups.

Hopefully your Windows user profile folder is still semi available. You'll want to google where that is, and what you cshould recover from it (favorites, pics, docs, email). 90% of your stuff is going to be in there.

Good luck.