If you just put them in the recycling bin and then emptied the recycling bin, or did a shift + del, in both cases the data is most likely still on the drive and recoverable.
Files don't get immediately blown away when you delete them, all it essentially does is tell the hard drive that that particular space is now available to be written to again. If nothing had written over the space where your files used to be, it's extremely easy to recover them.
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Originally Posted by Frs x3
One day I was deleting some files off said computer and accidentally wiped out my hard drive. Just like that 5 years of beloved data had been destroyed. If only I had backed it up.
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