recovering files from a wiped hard drive
Report Abuse. Depends on how the drive was wiped. If everything was just deleted or a quick format was done, then the files are still there. Just the pointer to them are gone. A recovery program such as the free recuva from http://recuva.com may recover them.If the hard drive was wiped with a wipe program that overwrites everything, then they are gone.If the hard drive has been wiped and then reused by having Windows reinstalled, then the files are most likely overwritten and gone.f the deleted files are on a memory card or USB memory stick, just donât save any new files to it. One of the easiest ways to see if you can recover deleted files is to try some file recovery software.