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Gutted! Just deleted my game by acident


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Deleted data still resides on your harddrive until those sectors get overwritten with other data, so it is possible to "undelete" it as long as it's not been overwritten. The bad news is that programs save/read temporary files to disk all the time in the background (your favorite web browser while you're browsing the web, for instance) and a single overwritten sector that used to hold a tiny part of your savegame is enough to break full undeletion (FM is unlikely to accept a savegame with even the tiniest data corruption). So, it could already be too late, but if you've only been writing a little to the disc it could also be recoverable, if you're in luck.

Get a recovery application like http://ntfsundelete.com/ or http://www.piriform.com/recuva and use it to locate your savegame among the deleted files they find, then try to recover it. But remember, recover it to a different drive or partition than where it used to reside, i.e. if you had your savegame stored somewhere on C:\, recover it to a drive with a different letter. A USB stick will do if you only have one big C:\ partition. The reason for this is that the program otherwise runs the risk of overwriting sectors holding parts of the deleted savegame while saving the data it is recovering.

Good luck.

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