Spildit wrote:
Most likely NOT ...
Unless your system did save those files to some sort of pagination file / virtual memory saved to disk you are out of luck.
Data on RAM is stored there up untill you power down the computer as power will left the RAM chips and your data there will be lost ... RAM is Random Access Memory and is not saved neither preserved after re-power.
Your only chance is if WINDOWS did copy that data to the drive pagination file to free RAM for other tasks... On that case you would still need to :
NOT POWER THE SYSTEM ANYMORE to preserve the pagination file.
Move the drive to a 3rd system and attempt to carve the TEXT out of the pagination file by looking for known TEXT strings using for example a hex editor or disk editor ...
It will be extremely hard and you will need lots of luck ...
Might I be able to do that without moving the drive? Could I just open it with notepad (I'm not familiar with hex editors or disk editors), or some other way?
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