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Frank Krueger
Asked: 2009-05-07 16:33:17 +0800 CST

Can recover files I accidentally overwrote with xcopy?

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Today I got the arguments backwards when issuing xcopy. This caused my source folder to be overwritten.

The system is Windows 2003 with standard NTFS. No special backup solutions running.

Is there any way to recover those files?

windows data-recovery xcopy

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Unlikely. It's pretty likely that the copied files are using the same physical hard drive clusters as the old files, and the data is just gone.

    On a journaling file system there might be a higher chance of recovering data. In general though this is a good reason to use backups and source control.

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  2. No, they're gone, sorry.

    You might wish to contribute towards post 5066

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  3. You might be able to via Previous Versions (shadow copies).

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