Win7, replaced a file with another which had same name, how do I recover the replaced

[bigboy529]

Hi all
I just did something very stupid. I had 2 Word files with the same name in 2 different folders, so I wanted to copy the latest one to my Google drive which still had the old one, I selected to copy and replace and then realized I accidentally replaced the new file with the old. I looked in the recycle bin it's not there, any ideas how I can recover it?

 

[Swa]

I don't understand. You just copied the old file to your Google drive instead of the new one, so why not just copy the new one then?

 

[bigboy529]

I don't understand. You just copied the old file to your Google drive instead of the new one, so why not just copy the new one then?

Sorry I didn't express myself correctly. I wanted to replace the old file with the new, but then by accident replaced the new file with the old. So new file is gone and the older one is in my documents.

 

[Swa]

Oh I misunderstood. Unfortunately there isn't much you can do. If you just deleted it you can recover it though on NTFS even that has always failed for me. On FAT or exFAT it's almost always successful.

Replacing files usually results in all the information being replaced by that of the new file. If it didn't write the file to the same physical space you'd have to do a disk scan for the actual information using something like Tiny Hexer.

 

[bigboy529]

Oh I misunderstood. Unfortunately there isn't much you can do. If you just deleted it you can recover it though on NTFS even that has always failed for me. On FAT or exFAT it's almost always successful.

Replacing files usually results in all the information being replaced by that of the new file. If it didn't write the file to the same physical space you'd have to do a disk scan for the actual information using something like Tiny Hexer.

Data isn't that important to go through all the effort, but thanks anyway.

Also now see I posted this in the wrong sub forum, should have been Software

 

[thehuman]

Wonder if shadow copy explorer will help

 

[supersunbird]

Recuva