For more information on the Encryption File System (EFS) go to
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...y/cryptfs.mspx

Best Regards,

~Will

"LVTravel" wrote:

While the data is important to recover and BobI has helped all there is
right now, if the USB drive is unencrypted, I would be contacting the
companies where any of these passwords, account information is used and
start changing that information also. You have given someone who finds this
drive valuable information to start stealing your identity. Hope it was
encrypted or at least password protected.


"Bob I" wrote in message
...
Possibly the AutoRecover file IF you had that feature turned on and it is
still not over written, You would need to look in Excel to see where its
stored for your particular setup default is C:\Documents and
Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\

Tony wrote:
I keep a lot of my confidential bank details, bank balances, passwords,
customer account details, etc stored on a USB storage device. I prefer
not to keep them stored on my laptop for security reasons but ironically
I have lost my USB device and I fear I am going to have to make a good
many calls and letters to retrieve this information.



On my laptop I edited the excel file, that contains my data, only hours
before losing it. Does a pc keep a temporary copy of the file that I
could retrieve?



I would happily buy some un-delete software if the data can be retrieved.
I have made a point of not using the pc since knowing the USB device has
been lost so as not to possibly overwrite any temporary information.



Thank you