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Title: lost pics
Post by: blackbob on March 09, 2006, 08:33:15

:(  :( very sad to day managed to delete all my 4x4ing pics from pc and got no backup so need to do backup from now on :(  :(

Title: lost pics
Post by: landylass2a on March 09, 2006, 08:43:22

Dont do anything else on your pc and get a data recovery disc from a friendly local pc shop, had this prob once and managed to recover most, but if u keep using you will over write any lost info. Go get one now

Title: lost pics
Post by: Hightower on March 09, 2006, 08:51:55

As Landylass says, don't do anything else!!!

There is a tool called File Scavenger that can find and recover deleted files quite efficiently.  You can download it from t'web and give it a go.  If it finds your stuff then register it and away you go.

Title: lost pics
Post by: blackbob on March 09, 2006, 09:01:10

think it was about 3 weeks ago that i lost them cos thats the last time i used them

Title: lost pics
Post by: beast5680 on March 09, 2006, 09:09:57

you and jake can get together and drown your sorrows he thinks he might have lost his stuff as well :roll:

Title: lost pics
Post by: hobbit on March 09, 2006, 09:21:37

Apart from the obvious backing up ritual, I find to avoid a lot of crash loas, I use a second drive to store downloads etc on. On the main system its inside the box, on the laptop its in a caddy usb2 drive box, although it could still loose data, not so likely as storing on the main boot drive

Title: lost pics
Post by: smog on March 09, 2006, 09:48:51

Even Computer tech's loose stuff, i know this because of all the stuff i have lost over the years :oops:


Easiest and best way to ensure the safe-keeping of your cherished pictures is as already said to add at least another HD to your machine, have running system on one and everything else on the other.

You could be really sad and do as i have and run 2 PATA drives 100gig each and 2 SATA drives 80gig each and a DVD drive then have a DVD rewriter for the stuff you need to use on other machines.

Expensive in the short term but then my machine also act's as a back up server for my website, that and i have at least 50 gig of pic's of landrovers/landrover related stuff plus all the family pic's i store on there.

I remember loosing pic's i took of one of my daughters the day she was born, you can never replace that stuff.

Also even though it is 3 weeks past SOME stuff may still be 'recoverable' as it were with the right software, there is NO guarantee but still worth a try.

Title: lost pics
Post by: strapping young lad on March 09, 2006, 10:24:10

get hiren bootcd

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hiren.thanki/bootcd.html

cant remember where i got the bootable cd from though, google more thoroughly for the above and you wil prob find it

i recovered a lost partition which had family pictures on it

i know religiously burn to dvd every month!

Title: lost pics
Post by: C C on March 09, 2006, 11:49:34

Maybe a silly question but you never know.

Have you actuarially emptied your Recycle bin?

If not the files can be restored.

Title: lost pics
Post by: Rangie3.0LtrDan on March 09, 2006, 14:16:53

My pc backs up to both my internal and external servers every night, the chances of all 3 going down are minimal but still possible!

Title: lost pics
Post by: dew1911 on March 09, 2006, 15:00:36

Quote from: "Disco200TDiDan"

My pc backs up to both my internal and external servers every night, the chances of all 3 going down are minimal but still possible!

Now that just is plain Nerdy...  :P

Title: lost pics
Post by: blackbob on March 09, 2006, 19:01:36

:( tried data recovery and pic came up as poor data so ive lost them but a friend has some on his pc so get some coppies sent later so not a total loss