is my user SOL?

[bigperm408]

Last night, the user deleted the username.pst, his rationale was that he had an archive.pst that had the same date, but was larger in size. His goal was to make more room on his HDD. He was successful there.

I downloaded the Trial of Recover My Files v3.30 this morning. Removed the users HDD and installed it as a slave in my system. Ran a COMPLETE SEARCH for Email>PST File and only came up with 2 pst's.
1) recovered_PST_1 / 25KB / PST / d:\lost files\
2) recovered_PST_2 / 2KB / PST / d:\lost files\

my question, since I know his pst was over 1GB in size, am I doing something wrong in my search, or is his pst just gone? Any other recover methods?

[GDH]

If you have run a "Complete Search" for the PST file type and it has not found it then the file has been at least partially overwritten.

A Complete Search does two things, a "deleted file" search, where deleted files are found by looking at the MFT records, and a "lost file" search where files are found by searching the entire disk and looking at the deleted file structures.

If the person is desperate we are currently working on a component that will find individual deleted messagaes on the disk - (not a PST file but actual individual deleted messages left on the disk so even if the PST is partially overwritten and destroyed you should still find the messages that are still OK). We are still a little way from a beta, but we may be able to do something if it is important.