Re: Deleted clips on hard drive

Hi Scott,
The important thing to remember is if you have added anything else to the drive in question since the mistaken delete.
If you have then the answer is more than likely no, you have probably lost most if not all the information to make complete files. The layman reason for this is when you delete a file all you are doing is removing the directory instructions and not the file itself. The OS see's that there is now free space available and will start to overwrite those files with new data. So it depends on how much new data is overlaying the old data and how many files are affected.
If however you think that the drive is the same as the day you deleted the files then there is a chance for recovery. I did the same thing earlier this year and used a program called "Data Rescue" which enabled me to recover about 90% of the lost files. The recovered files won't have the original name however as that information is lost forever, so you may need to go through a long inspection process of opening all the recovered files to see what is what.
Data Rescue can be downloaded for a small fee.