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hard drive history

#1 kybluzz

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Posted 07 June 2009 - 04:08 PM

anyone have any ideas on how to retrieve the history on a hard drive. in other words , go back in time to a particular date and view all activity from that date ? the computer still works , was just wanting to see if there is a way to view it . like emails or sites that were sent or visited. or direct me to the correct forum or something.
thanks

#2 PcProbs

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Posted 07 June 2009 - 08:21 PM

I think there is a program that can do this but im not 100% sure.

#3 Jimboxy

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Posted 29 June 2009 - 12:06 AM

Hard drive doesnt store all the actions that were commited in the past. The only and the main thing in a hard drive is FAT - file allocation table. Google it and youll know what it stores. You can only get the deleted files from your hard drive if nothing was written "on top" of them.

#4 master green

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Posted 07 July 2009 - 05:16 PM

Hi,
This is the one I use, it gives you the browser history and then some...It's called "Super WinSpy"...

#5 andrewww

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Posted 09 July 2009 - 07:19 AM

If you want to view some deleted files a great free app to use is Recuva (http://recvua.com)

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