system restore - recover avi's

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I have accidentally deleted a folder that had 500 avi files in it...so about 400GB worth of data. These are large of course, so the recycle bin can't handle them. they are always deleted directly. Does anyone know if I'm out of hope as to getting them back?

My system restore on vista 64-bit did absolutely nothing. Unfortunately for me, I never have created a backup of my files through the backup wizard.

I am currently running Recuva File Recovery, but if that doesn't work, can anyone suggest some magic? thanks!

(something is strange here though, because after restoring the system to the point at which I should've had the videos on there, the 'bar' under the c drive shows correctly for memory usage, but the 'caption' does not. see attached image...)
 

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System restore may be the worst thing you could have done. It is for restoring the operating system, not your data. I expect it writes a lot of temporary data and may have overwritten your data files.

After the accidental deletion you should have done absolutely nothing to your computer since any disk write could be overwriting your deleted files.

You should not have browsed the Internet or installed the Recuva program on the computer. The recovery should have been done from the portable version of Recuva on a USB drive. Assuming you are using Recuva properly you may have to kiss your data goodbye.

Learn the hard lesson and always backup your files. Nothing can get back what has been overwritten. (Except a police forensic specialist looking for child porn).
 
System restore may be the worst thing you could have done. It is for restoring the operating system, not your data. I expect it writes a lot of temporary data and may have overwritten your data files.

After the accidental deletion you should have done absolutely nothing to your computer since any disk write could be overwriting your deleted files.

You should not have browsed the Internet or installed the Recuva program on the computer. The recovery should have been done from the portable version of Recuva on a USB drive. Assuming you are using Recuva properly you may have to kiss your data goodbye.

Learn the hard lesson and always backup your files. Nothing can get back what has been overwritten. (Except a police forensic specialist looking for child porn).
understood. thanks sir.
 

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