Windows 7 - Upgrade/Clean Install

theDreamer

Bobo is 100% correct, in terms of recovery it depends on many things:
~How was the file deleted? Format, Quick format, just deleted, etc.
~Time since lose of file?

The first thing you should look into for recovery is from the hard drive manufacture itself, Seagate, Western Digital, etc. have some free data recovery that are ok. Beyond that it all becomes a variable of price, how much you want to spend? I have not tested any in a while, office just does clean installs and everything triple backed up, home I have double back up setup so I never have a need for it.

I know I could link the video but not sure many of you want to watch it. Go to engdaget and search for the engadget show. There last show had a 30 minute interview with Steve Ballmer, he explained his view (and Microsofts view) on what they feel from XP/Vista/7. For those who do not want to watch it, Vista was meant to break things as it was, the same thing happened when they did Windows 2000 (not sure how many remember that), and XP was the holy grail that took 2000 to the next level. Vista was suppose to break things, but they hoped with giving companies (driver writers, software companies, etc.) the OS two years in advance it would ease the pain. Apparently these companies thought no one would want to switch to Vista and they were shocked with all those who wanted to.

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