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ShadowExplorer - Recover Lost Files and Folders

How to Recover Lost Files and Folders with ShadowExplorer
Published 19 Dec 2010
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ShadowExplorer is a tool to recover any file or folder from system restore points without the need to restore a whole partition. It obviously does not help if a whole partition, including the restore points, disappears. In that case, only imaging can help. It is, however, very handy if you erroneously deleted something and flushed the recycle bin or if you have a file that was somehow corrupted.

For seperate data partitions, I always recommend to enable system recovery too.


Note that this works only with disk partitions where you have restore points. Files from USB sticks or SD cards you cannot recover with Shadow Explorer. With those you can try Recuva..


This video tutorial is for Shadow Explorer 0.8.

Shadow Explorer is free and can be downloaded from here: ShadowExplorer.com - About
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20 Dec 2010   #1
kado897

 
Thought it might be useful to have this link to System protection in Windows 7 rather than Vista as in the video.



System Protection - Turn On or Off
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20 Dec 2010   #2
whs

 
Thanks Kado, that is useful.
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30 Dec 2010   #3
hr1

 
Hi, my system was recently updated to Win 7 and the "IT" guy backed up my files on the network drive. when he reinstalled the files on my desktop not all of them were there. How can i recover those that werent saved. our computers only go back one month, the Ecel file I need is older than that. help!
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30 Dec 2010   #4
whs

 
Quote   Quote: Originally Posted by hr1 View Post
Hi, my system was recently updated to Win 7 and the "IT" guy backed up my files on the network drive. when he reinstalled the files on my desktop not all of them were there. How can i recover those that werent saved. our computers only go back one month, the Ecel file I need is older than that. help!
If Windows 7 was installed, all Vista or previous system restore points are gone. So those will not help you. If you forgot to backup some files, I am afraid they will be lost for good - unless you have an image of the old system (which is probably not the case).

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