Serious deleted item help on computer

[Bob_VT]

Here's the situation.........

Boss got a new laptop and passed the old one along....... THOUGHT all the photos were copied onto CD's (did not ask for help).

When the CD's were placed into the new laptop they are empty

All the photos were sent to the recycle bin and then the bin was emptied......

Is there hope? We still have the old laptop and it has been in use for about 3 weeks by another company person.....

Is there a program to recover the photos or restore them? OR will the HD have to be removed and sent out.

 

[tommays]

Re: Serious deleted item help on computer

http://www.hiren.info/

It can be a littel hard to find a place to download as it is a 70 MEG file

On the FREE Hiren Cd there are several file recover tools that will find them BUT the more its used the less likely it will work



Tommays

 

[Bob_VT]

Re: Serious deleted item help on computer

In the scant few minutes to post this my boss ran to Staples and we are "trying" Search & Recover 4....

Will keep this updated ..... so far is has been slow and we are over 5000 files recovered and only at 65%..... I will let you know the end result.

 

[Xcusme]

Re: Serious deleted item help on computer

Download and keep this file handy.....
http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/

 

[KaGee]

Re: Serious deleted item help on computer

Bob, I have that search and recover... it's a good program... just slow.

 

[Bob_VT]

Re: Serious deleted item help on computer

SLOW it is!! I am still working on it.....but it finally reached 100%

 

[Bob_VT]

Re: Serious deleted item help on computer

Toast......

I ran the program 2 ways (each way took 5 1/2 hours) and ended up with bits and pieces..... got ton's of file names but only bits and pieces of the jpg's. I ended up with about 15 photos out of 1000+.

It had been in another employees work area for a month..... kind of what I expected.

 

[bruceb58]

Re: Serious deleted item help on computer

This is a prime example why you should be backing up to another hard drive. Every day at 3:00 AM I have a script that backs up all my files to another second hard drive on my computer and a network drive I have hidden in another area of my house.

 

[ndemge]

Re: Serious deleted item help on computer

to only have had them on the computer was bad to start, then to write a cd and not CHECK IT before deleting is worse.

Of everything I have on my computers, my pictures are #1 priority. Music after that.

Double onsite storage on 2 different machines with 1 copy that gets backed up off site in case my house burns down.

Bruce, I take care of the computers for a small construction company, every night an xcopy script simply copies the important directories to one of the other machines. Every 2 weeks I go onsite, do my checkups/repairs and burn a cd. Last month, the computer running the finacial program for the company up and crashed HARD...... 4 houurs later they were up and running with NO data loss. I was happy.

 

[bob_jaykins]

Re: Serious deleted item help on computer

Bob,

I hope you get this in time. There is a way to recover the files, the program you used is not that good, it seems to find lots of files but never can recover anything good, nor with the right files names. The solution you need to get is Photo Recovery Software, which I have used. It helped me to recover over 100 gigs of photos ive collected over the years and kept all the filename intact.

Goodluck!

 

[Coors]

Re: Serious deleted item help on computer

My wife's computer trashed a drive; running chksum or checksum got 1/2 of her files back. A thought.

 

[Coors]

Re: Serious deleted item help on computer

http://www.pcworld.com/sc/windowsmobile/

 

[Xcusme]

Re: Serious deleted item help on computer

Toast......

I ran the program 2 ways (each way took 5 1/2 hours) and ended up with bits and pieces..... got ton's of file names but only bits and pieces of the jpg's. I ended up with about 15 photos out of 1000+.

It had been in another employees work area for a month..... kind of what I expected.

Yea, that's a bummer for sure......but it's pretty normal. If that box was with another employee for a month, they wrote lots of files to and from the HD in the normal course of operating the computer. The OS will write to the file areas marked as deleted and recovery is limited at best. If the error was caught early and little or no disk activity, then you would have had better success. Sorry for your loss, but the bright side is it usually happens only once....it's a learning experience.

 

[Bob_VT]

Re: Serious deleted item help on computer

It is sad and I showed the boss what little I rescued...........

A very big lesson learned! Thank you everyone for your help and input.


Back up your drives!!