Any way to revive game save deleted by acident?

[MKlick]

I was playing to characters and wiped out my level 22 Paladin by accident. Any way to revive him or am I SOL, screwed??????

[Ryastar]

I don't think there is, I think you are indeed out of luck.

P.S. How do you delete all the saved games for your character by accident? Just curious...

[Dabrinko]

My guess he only had one save... But then he'd still have three quicksaves and at least one autosave

[henrikfm]

There could be but it won't be easy.

When you delete a file, the binary data isn't erased from the disk, just deleted on a file table. It's like in a book, you delete the chapter 4 from the index but the pages of the chapter 4 are still on the book.

The problem is that the sectors on the disk where the file was are considered free, so the disk eventually writes new data on them. It depends on how much time has passed since the delete (because your PC constantly writes into the disk), if you recently installed new programs and the luck factor.

Being a savegame, which is a small file, it could be still there. There are some programs that recover deleted files. You could give it a try.