How to - how do I "un-delete" what was deleted?

[vhelp]

hello all.

by accident, I deleted several folders, and some had many files in it.
I was working on a database, when my system froze while hard-drive
light was on. I had no choise but to turn system off, since ctr-alt-del
was not available - if you know what I mean!!

Anyways, NOW, I need to find a way to "un-delete" what was deleted or
killed, due to my Windows 98's SCANDISK deleting them due to
an invalid LongFilename string fond in several folders.

I'm looking for a way to restore my deleted Folders as well as the
file that were in them. Other than my having to restore windows 98
partially, and rebooting my pc, I haven't really writen to THIS pc's disk,
so I'm hoping I have an opportunity to restore most if not all my folders
and files.

Does anyone have a suggestion???
Oh, and please, no shareware apps. I've done this once before,
(a long, long time ago) and the two that I did try limited me w/ a few files
to retstore and/or limited me to not being able to restore folders.
So, if anyone knows of a small app to run (pleaes, no big apps, as these
will most likely kill my opportunity to restore)
Hopefully, freeware, as this won't have a limits on what i can un-delete.
Please, no Norton. I have on my system, but dahha, it's one of the foders
that was damanged/deledted - and I don't have the rescue disk nor the CD
rom disk either. Thanks for the offer anyways, he, he...

Thank you all for any suggestions.
-vhelp

[MOVIEGEEK]

Since you aren't using WinMe or XP(system restore) those files are gone for good.Unless you use a programs "Recycle Bin Protection" you can't recover files,I use Norton Utilities to protect me from doing such a thing.

[vhelp]

moviegeek,

tanx... I already knew they were gone for good, he, he...
I was just hoping - this happened to me once before.
Nothing was serious, as I do have backups and all, but I was just working
on some database changes, and I just didn't want to have to re-create
some of the source code I was debugging from yesterday and beyond, as
those I haven't backed up - I don't normally do the "particular" work in
THAT db. anyways,
I've recovered the folders (more like replaced them) w/ my backup.
Backing up doesn't always work (in this case it wasn't imporant)

So... fa-get-about-it.
-vhelp

PS: I'm surprised this thread didn't make the MAIN page on this FORUM.
I've ben looking for it since last night, but never saw a hint of it. Must
be a bug in this. hmmm. it's still not showing in the MAIN page here:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/
Oh well. Maybe off-topics is not suppose to display... interesting. hmmm.