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Is there a way to recover a file after Deep Freeze has deleted it?

I use cybercafes in SE Asia, and it is very common that a power outage occurs after I have saved files onto the computer's hard drive. All the cybercafes here use a despicable program called "Deep Freeze" which restores the computer to the state it was in at each restart. So when the computer restarts, my files are gone. This has happened so many times that I have lost many hours of work, compiling information as I surf and saving it as text files. I normally save the data to my flash drive at the end of a session at the cybercafe. But because I am constantly adding information to the text file I am creating, I don't like to keep saving it to my flash drive, because each time you save to a flash drive you are using up one of its limited number of "write" cycles, so I prefer to save it on the HD, and then write just ONCE to the flash drive, at conclusion. Is there a way to recover these deleted files? Also, is there a way to deactivate Deep Freeze when I am at a cybercafe?

Public Comments

1. Ah.. Deep Freeze.... well there's not much you can do bar reverse engineering the program and finding a vulnerability or bypassing the thing entirely by booting to a different drive and deleting the Deep Freeze program and drivers manually. You could just get a line powered USB hard drive if you're worried about the lifetime of the device, or even a NAND flash device (will withstand more write cycles standard NOR flash memory). There is no way to recover the 'deleted' files.
2. as said b4, use a usb pen drive, and set it to autosave, or auto save regularly try http://www.recuva.com/ maybe that'll find it this DEFININATLY should , but its not free > http://www.runtime.org/