So my Steam broke when my PC blue screened. I tried restarting my pc but it wouldn't load. So I tried updating it. -No joy!
So then I deleted Steam. But what did I forget to back up? - "mapsrc" would have helped :C
Man, I wish I could remember what undelete tool I used a few years ago when Windows decided that my naming a folder "temp" meant it could go in and empty it out without any notification. I think I've used Easeus's partition app and it worked well, though, so I'd recommend their file recovery tool before any other as long as it doesn't only work on newly-reformatted drives.
If you can be arsed I reckon a file un-deleter could get it back, don't know how much it'd be able to retrieve or if Hammer would even reckognise it but I've heard miraculous stories in the past.
If you can be arsed I reckon a file un-deleter could get it back, don't know how much it'd be able to retrieve or if Hammer would even reckognise it but I've heard miraculous stories in the past.
Not necessarily. It was a recent thing he did and just because it was recently deleted doesn't mean that's the first thing that will get overwritten. I was playing around with Recuva a couple weeks ago for fun and it was finding hundreds of files (totally intact, too) that I had deleted a year ago.
I would definitely suggest grabbing some recovery app and giving it a go.
edit: it depends a lot on how full the drive is, if you had a big chunk of free space it is more likely the ghost data is still there.
It's worth pointing out too, that because of the simple format of VMFs, even recovering half a file that was partially overwritten is still salvageable. Just clean up the corrupted areas so Hammer can read it and you could at least get something back to start from.
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