Before asking the question, I thought it might be interesting for someone, to know my tale, which could also be a hint, that I'll go quite far to achieve the intended.

I moved to vista x64, from xp x_86.. Everything went quite ok, except for some booting issues with vista. In the last 3 days, I reinstalled it just like 7 times..

Of course, before moving, I backed up my xp, to a norton ghost image. Then, I found out, that I can setup a hardware raid, of two hard disks. I moved the necessary data to the third(hard disk), installed everything, then started to move the data to the partitions I need it to be at. Including the the backup image.. But, after moving it.. I accidentally deleted a wrong folder. Usually, I remove all limits, to the size of recycle bin, but after creating new partitions (or perhaps, after installing fresh windows) they were reset to default. So, the backup got unpaged.

I tried like 5 programs to recover it:

Ultimate Data Recovery - looks like nice tool, although not free, didn't help.
File Scavenger - about same
Recover My Files didn't help
Undelete - same as first two
Undudelete - didn't help
undelete plus - Looks like awesome program, but: It claims the file was overwritten.
Raid Data Recovery - Very slow download, I'll try it..

Undelete plus, claims the file had been overwritten. In any case, I want it back, even partially. The file is 15gb, and I understood my mistake straight away(thus seezing any further operations on the volume). The partition is separate, and wasn't accessed. So, either it was slightly damaged(well, it's vista, who knows what did it do..), or the the program just can't recover such a big file.

I also scanned the volume, from which I moved that file. The file there appears as "overwritten" too. Also, the largest file that the visible as "good", is about 4gb, few(actually, all) larger are also corrupted. All of the files, are placed on the partitions one after the other(I think), because they were written to freshly formatted volumes.

The most important thing for me, are the cookies which are in that ghost image, also getting some photos would be nice(really unlikely all to be damaged, the compression method was standard, files located at two partitions, and there are many of them). Also, recovering some images would be nice.
I need the coockies that badly, because a long time ago, when I registered on a Russian community site, similar to Hi5.com & facebook.com, I didn't want to connected my email to it.. So I registered with a fake one, which I have forgotten. And, that email is the "username" there. So, if cookies method fails, the only thing possible will be to shoot myself(either with a camera, or a handgun), holding a paper begging to send password to my real email. Perhaps they'll even do.. But..

If anyone has any suggestions, on how to get'em out of there, I'll be more than glad to hear them.

Thank you, for your time.

Edit:
Here, I found that cause for the files to be unrecoverable, really is their size.

So, I would like to know, if it is possible to find a tool, that would take two long integers, a partition and would output all data between them, to a file?

And, in case that IS possible, how would winrar react, to a file, with some junk at the end of it? And, the same question applies to Norton Ghost.

Thanks again..

I am sorry, just giving all that thread was rude. The info I found in that thread, is that when a file is removed from an NTFS partition, under windows it doesn't always just "mark that space free", but also causes damage to some sector, that is responsible for location of that specified file, if it is a large file.

And my hope, is the following: (Although, I see quite no method on doing that..). Locate begging of the file by it's magic number. I am quite sure, that the disk isn't fragmented (it is a whole chunk), and I approximately know it's size. I assume, that addition of some garbage to the end of the file, won't ruin it- it will just turn larger.

So, I am thinking of finding two tools: Scanning whole hard disk for data (to find that magic number), and another (or the same) tool to move the data starting at that magic number, plus following 20gb to a file. Saving it, mounting it.

I would love to hear any comments, regarding to the ways to achieve that, and regarding to the tools that could help me do that.

Edit:
Ah yes..

Well, these files are on separate partitions.. I've no idea how to isolate them, I just don't touch them.. And I changed their names, so that I won't accidentally write something to them.

As I know, windows can put files of any size, in to the recycle bin, if the size of the recycler is unlimited manually, in the properties of that recycler.

All of the methods you mentioned, look very promising, but I haven't gotten any tools to accomplish these tasks. Would you suggest me anything?

Thanks for the reply though.

I had good results with Stellar Phoenix FAT32-NTFS Recovery tool.
A pity that it is not free, but in some case pire2pire is your friend.

It was successful where the other free tools (I tried all mentioned tools in that thread) were failing.