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Originally Posted by Banana
When you delete a file, only the pointer(header? address? what is the correct term?) containing the physical location is deleted. So it's somewhere on the hard drive, just not accessible.
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*ahem*
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Originally Posted by Farenheit
Is there a way to recover the data from MS Excel. The data has been deleted, but not the file itself.
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For what it's worth, Microsoft Word saves files with lots of redundancy in them and .doc files often
do contain old data that you thought you deleted. You can retrieve some old data by pulling strings from the file. I don't believe Excel, on the other hand, keeps around old data the same way. In some brief testing, I was unable to retrieve strings from an .xls file after I saved, deleted some content, and saved over it again.
So, you (or your friend) may just be SOL.