If the computer you were working on had Norton system works, there is a slight chance that you could recover the file, according to the info that comes with the program, but the danger is that in installing anything new on that hard drive, over-writes may occur on the area containing your file. Perhaps, if you were to install this program on another hard drive, it may be able to access the drive with your file on it and possibly restore it. When a file is "erased", really only the first letter of the filename is removed in the file allocation table (FAT). Some of the unerase utilities are able to read everything in the FAT, including file names with no first letter. You get prompted to enter any letter, and voila, you have the file name back. Now, whether all the clusters that contained that file's data are still intact depends on how much disk activity has taken place since the original delete.
