help recovering a replaced notepad document

duh, thats me. I admit to being a total dumbars when it comes to the computer. I somehow replaced a very important notepad document with a blank new white unwritten one. The document that was important to me, which i should have immediately printed , but didn't, what a jackars I am, was a short story I had written for a college class. I tried to retrieve it, but looks like it is gone. I know that the computer is supposed to store information somewheres indefinately. Do you intellegent computer wiz's know how I may retrieve the original document that I replaced with the white page? :cry Please help me.....

 

Click start if using Vista or open run if XP type in .txt and up pops all your txt documents it maybe that when it went missing it got sent to your .txt documents !

 

If running vista, or win 7, you may be able recover your file, via shadowcopy. Or, shadowexplorer:

http://shadowexplorer.com/

link to program: http://www.shadowexplorer.com/uploads/ShadowExplorer-0.1-setup.exe

 

Thanks to all of you for your help. Unfortunately I was not able to find the document. There is a possibility that I never saved it, it was late and I was doing silly things. Appreciate the time you put in giving me a helping hand.