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Old 20th Oct 2020, 19:35
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Clay_T
 
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Loose rivets is on the right track. Linux will see the files*, no problem.

#1. Turn off and unplug the storage drive that contained your original files.
Nothing written to a drive is ever 'deleted'.
"Deleting" merely hides the file from the USER and allows the area on the disk where the file is stored to be overwritten.
As long as nothing gets written over the files, recovery is a cinch.

Mounting the drive READ ONLY prevents overwriting.
Mounting the drive on a Linux box will show the files.
There are Windows file recovery utilities out there. I haven't used one in 20 years but I imagine they haven't gotten any less bloated, clunky, or expensive since then.

(*)I have no experience with W10 so I don't know if Windows is doing funky things with the file system.
The drive may be encrypted. That would complicate going the Linux route to recovery.
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