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Pipertom

Post subject: Recovering lost data from PC.

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:31 pm

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Awhile back (2 years ago) ? I transferred photographs from my digital camera to my PC to edit them when i finished doing this i then moved them onto a disk which i now cannot find anyplace.

I have checked my PC but i think they have been deleted is their any way that i can still recover them from the PC and if so can you please advise me what can be done.

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RichieP

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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:54 pm

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It depends how long ago they were deleted as to whether you have much chance of recovering anything.

Windows doesn't actually remove the files, it remove the link to the files, marking that area available to be overwritten. If you're lucky they might still be there.

There is lots of free software available that might help. Recuva is one, available from here

This is a good one as it can be run from a removable device so you don't risk overwriting what you want to recover when you download and install it.

Good luck.

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Pipertom

Post subject: Data recovery.

Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 2:31 am

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Thanks for your reply and suggestion, looking further it would seem the majority of these saviour's will give you an appetiser ie hundreds of files found, (buy me now!.)

Earlier i found a no nonsense site that is 100% free from start to finish.

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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:46 am

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I use digital media recovery and over the years have found it to be the best.
http://www.diskdoctors.net/digital-medi ... tware.html

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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:29 pm

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Thanks vespa i have bookmarked your suggested site,
I eventually used richie's suggestion recuva i had a little problem downloading the program but managed and to my delight i recovered over 7,000 files that included my lost photographs. thank's again ritchieP

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Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:18 pm

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Wahay!!

Glad it worked.

Now make sure you back up everything important.

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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:39 pm

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Might pay to Sticky this Rich ,or at least put the prog as a sticky :thumbright:

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TIME LORD

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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:28 pm

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If any one needs the software I have get data back for fat32 or ntfs which has recoverd lots of hard drives and very easey to use.

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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:43 pm

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just watch if you download movies as they are big files and windows tries to write to contigous memory so makes it hard to recover files.
Depends of size of your hard disk of course

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TIME LORD

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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:32 am

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I have about 6TB one one computer and i used the software to recover my 1TB network drive it done the job very nice

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