Maximus Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Has anyone managed to do this with any degree of success? I would appreciate help from anyone who has pulled off this incredible feat as I reccently deleted a folder full of Christmas photos by accident I have tried PCinspector and can find the files I am looking for and they are listed as good condition but after I restore them the files are just empty, there is no image when I open them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest S.U.S.S. Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/ worked for a mate, also do not write anything to the disc until you have recoved the file or you may overwrite the location on the disc and thus lose the chance to recover it. what os you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximus Posted July 9, 2008 Author Share Posted July 9, 2008 XP pro Do you mean you have to rename the file? I'm writing to another partition, is that enough or do you have to rename it too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 I reccently deleted a folder full of Christmas photos by accident Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazio Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximus Posted July 9, 2008 Author Share Posted July 9, 2008 What is the for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest S.U.S.S. Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 XP pro Do you mean you have to rename the file? I'm writing to another partition, is that enough or do you have to rename it too? When you delete a file it is not wiped from the computer. Only the deleted file entry is removed from the directory that Windows keeps. The sectors of the hard drive where the file resides are marked as available to hold new data. So avoid adding/saving a new data file to the hard drive after file deletion. This might actually erase the data by over writing it and further leading to permanent data loss. Until the files get overwritten by the operating system, they still exist on the hard drive, You will be ok if you not writing to the same drive/partition, make sure you cancel any disc defragmentars and disc checkers as they could change the file allocation table. Run the undelete software on the drive the files were on and you should be ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximus Posted July 9, 2008 Author Share Posted July 9, 2008 Thanks for the help, alas most of the files are a goner, only saved about 8 out of 20 odd. Strangely I did find some MP3s that I deleted last year that still worked though, which was nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Sexington Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 What is the for? I think he may have been insinuating that you enjoy bashing the bishop to computer pornography. Not that theres anything wrong with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest S.U.S.S. Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Thanks for the help, alas most of the files are a goner, only saved about 8 out of 20 odd. Strangely I did find some MP3s that I deleted last year that still worked though, which was nice. Something probably overwrote the part of the disc they were on, still better to get some than none. go to http://www.download.com and look for free file restorers some others may find different files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Bit late now, but in the future if you use something like Picasa Web Albums for your pictures, you can avoid things like this. Assuming they're Christmas photos of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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