If you use Linux and you need to recover a deleted file, then your best bet is with a Linux live CD, such as Rescatux. Linux live CDs are a wonderful invention, they let you try new distros, show ...

When files are deleted from a disk, they are simply modified in binary to tell the computer that those files can be written over.

In this how-to we will look at the find command and a range of additional arguments which will give us a variety of approaches to finding files and directories.