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I need help please in my computer i tryed to look up the history of where somebody it was cleared nothing?
under history nothing came up somebody deleted my history in the computer i need to get all the history back from the desktop please how do you do this i need some answers why the person deleted all the history what is the person hiding is really painful to explain. I need somebody to tell me where i could take the tower so they could tell me where this person have being like e-mails websites everything i want to know where this person being in the last 6 years of my life please help don't criticize need answers don't have time for criticism
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- Shadow WolfLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
Once the history is gone, it is gone. Unless you were very careful in preventing any overwrites, any chance of recovering the history is pretty slim. There are ways to do this, but by the time the average person tries, it is often already to late for someone with the needed experience and tools.
What you can do is try and find the cookies. If they weren't deleted, then you may still get a clue. However, if the cookies were deleted then recovery is just a slim chance.
The same story for emails. Just the simple act of checking emails would have overwritten any deleted emails as they are often stored as a single large file.
As for taking it somewhere, you'd need a serious hacker who at least had a clue about computer forensics or a similar counterpart that might be found at some larger police departments. Your average computer repair guy probably won't have the tools or in many cases even a clue about how to recover any possible data. There are also some data recovery services, but they are usually expensive and there isn't likely anything on the hard drive that is worth that kind of money or effort.
Just by booting up a system, the hard drive areas used by the deleted files may get overwritten. The same thing can be said for deleted files when the system is shut down. Once they are overwritten, it is well beyond recovery by the average person. This is why any computer in a criminal investigation is usually unplugged rather than shut down and then the hard drive is often removed and duplicated using another system so that the data remains unchanged.
Also, except for email, it is unlikely you'd get more than the last 30 days even if it wasn't deleted manually. Most default browser settings remove history and other data automatically every 30 days or less. I personally keep mine set at the minimum which is usually a day.
Email can go back several years including the first email ever received on the computer. If web mail was used, then everything is gone unless a criminal investigation can find backup copies from the web mail provider's servers. The average person generally doesn't have the legal authority to get copies of the backups and there wouldn't be any copies on your computer.
It's a pretty grim picture. It won't hurt to try and recover stuff, but it just isn't likely.
Shadow Wolf
- TonyLv 71 decade ago
you may have your computer to delete history after a certain date>if it is deleted it is gone
- 1 decade ago
You ain't need that no-good cheatin scum. He also probably has several disgusting fetishes. Cut your loses and leave imo.