>>1385403>Is it that hard to recover a deleted .txt from 2021?The physical location on that hard drive will have been written over by other files if you used it since 2021. And even if you don't use it, it may have been set up with the default to optimize the hard drive once per week or once per month. In that case, some files are automatically moved to reduce fragmentation and that may cause files to write over that location on the hard drive.
If you do know the name of the file, then some free online tools can do a deep search for that file. What they do is backtrack through the NTFS file transaction logs to try to decode various parts of those files.
If you are lucky, something remains. You can then force a recovery of the file despite it saying "poor". What happens in that caas is the recovery tool reads off whatever data is in the NTFS record for the last know locations on the hard drive that file existed. You'll end up with a single file that is a melange of random data along with possible a few sections of the original file. That's because those locations have been overwritten with other stuff. I would say this is the result if you deleted the file August 4th, 2023. But you deleted this thing back in 2021. I can only assume there is zero chance especially if you ever ran defragmentation or drive cleaning programs.
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