Recovering files erased beyond basic deletion
There are quite a few programs available purporting to be able to recover deleted files. However only the best of these have the ability to locate and recover files that have been deleted by emptying the Windows recycle bin. When you place a file in the Windows recycle bin in a sense it is no longer located in its original location on your computer’s hard disk drive. The data in that file has been copied and moved into a temporary folder. In fact the file itself has been renamed with a hash like number.
Because of this when you use a basic data recovery tool to search for files deleted by emptying the Windows recycle bin and scroll down the list of recoverable files you will never find your original file name and consequently be able to rescue that file. The best file recovery tools can recover files emptied from the Windows recycle bin easily. The software programs have scripting built in to their code that recognize the folder structure used for the copied original files and gather all files deleted by emptying the Windows recycle bin into one new location.