I came into this thread a little late but if I may offer some advise.

Recently my wife managed to destroy the fat table on her pictures drive.
Lost was over 4 yrs worth of hentai collecting - or approx 10 Gb of pictures , movies etc.
After searching the internet and talking to a couple of people "in the know" 1 program was recomemded.
Get Data Back

I purchased this program online from Australia .It cost me approx $AU150
Within 3 hrs I had managed to recover 98 % of the lost files.If you are prepared to buy and register this program I don't think you will be diasspointed.
It come in several differant flavours for FAT,NTFS several other flavours.
I bought the fat version and it was extremely easy to use .If the NTFS version is anything like it then you should have no problem recovering 25,000 files in a single afternoon.

Regards
~Sam~

hi,
i have deleted a file LEN ASSIGNMENT which is very important yesterday evening....i have even emptied the recycle bin.
Is there any possibilities that i can get back my file?

Hi,
You should start a new thread with your problem, but,
First thing to do is nothing, do not load or save anything to your PC.
Go to:-
http://aumha.org/a/recover.php
for some information on your problem.
You can follow the advice there or on another PC, download a file restore program (Google- recover deleted file from recycle bin) you will find many available. Then use the program to find and restore your lost files.
Remember...don't do anything that can alter your hard drive as you could overwrite your files and never be able to get them back.

Yes, you can recover your deleted items after recycle bin has been emptied?

This is very critical situation when important files deleted by mistake or any circumstances, there is no any other option provided by Windows OS to restore them. But in the recent IT market various software tools are available to recover those files from emptied recycle bin. I know something about recovery tools because we have facing the same situation and tried every possible aspect. But I am not success to recover them. Finally we discuss this problem with my seniors and my seniors guides the right way and suggest me quality data recovery software called” Recover Data for Windows Data Recovery”

Hi again,
Don't worry about expensive programs you can buy, there are plenty of good free programs available on the net Try this one from Majorgeeks.com
http://majorgeeks.com/downloads38.html
Near the top of the XP page here on Daniweb, there is a thread for good programs, look there if you want another choice.

Remember, your deleted files are still there (if you have not copied over them yet) anything to save to your PC can overwrite your files and they will be lost forever without a very expensive multi-layer data recovery program. If you have a second drive or partition, you can save anything you like there but not to the drive where your OS is located.