file recovery after overwriting

[sixf00t4]

@ work, and i just got a call from a guy who had saved over a 10 page paper accidently with a blank page. he wanted to know if there was anyway to undo that.

so obviously this guy is is bad shape, since he wrote over the original file. I told him it may be possible that some of the original document was still intact since the blank page is obviously smaller and shorter than the 10 pager.

i was wondering if anyone had any success with Unerase or any tools like that in recovering parts of files if not the whole thing.

[Chuckiechan]

Yes, they can work. Tell the guy not to do anything until he starts trying to recover.

Go on line and Google "file recovery" and there is a fair chance of finding software to recover it intact. Especially if he has a large hard drive with large clusters, meaning it isn't broken up with several FAT numbers.

worth a try...