Help - i've lost my photos

Lil306

kwikbreaks wrote: »

Text yes. File data no.

My bad, never really pay much attention with computers. I just like fixing them

kwikbreaks

Lil306 wrote: »

My bad, never really pay much attention with computers. I just like fixing them

I think the OP is following your instructions so 99%+ of the post was spot on and useful too.

I assume that the file names get put in the clipboard but there is no way you can get any data from it - you can't even paste those names into a text editor.

JasX

also be mindful not to copy/download or install anything to the drive you 'cut' them from or you risk starting to overwrite them and make some of them permanently unrecoverable.

Do all that to either a different hard disk or USB drive

herewegoagain2010

Right I've done the rescue scan as Lil306l suggested and it's not brought any of the files up. I've found 1000s of other old piccies, but the lost ones are no-where to be seen :-( I've just read JasX post and I've downloaded things from my camera since, so it looks like they've gone for good. Can anyone else suggest trying something else? Would it be worth trying to recover from the memory card?

debitcardmayhem

JasX wrote: »

also be mindful not to copy/download or install anything to the drive you 'cut' them from or you risk starting to overwrite them and make some of them permanently unrecoverable.

Do all that to either a different hard disk or USB drive

Very good of chance being partially overwritten OP was 4 weeks ago

macman

OP, for future reference what you should have done is copy the data to your backup, not move it. Then only when you have established that the backup is OK, you can delete the original.
But even this method mean that you only have one copy, so you really should be keeping a proper backup, i.e. at least two copies each on separate media.
Sounds to me as though you never actually burned the images onto your CD/DVD in the first place.
I assume you have tried checking the disk on another PC, in case it's just that the CD drive has failed?

kwikbreaks

herewegoagain2010 wrote: »

Right I've done the rescue scan as Lil306l suggested and it's not brought any of the files up. I've found 1000s of other old piccies, but the lost ones are no-where to be seen :-( I've just read JasX post and I've downloaded things from my camera since, so it looks like they've gone for good. Can anyone else suggest trying something else? Would it be worth trying to recover from the memory card?

You didn't answer my question about what happened with the target drive. If the photos were copied to it but you formatted it after (which is how your first post reads) then there is an excellent chance that TestDisk (link in my earlier post) will be able to recover them so long as the disk hasn't been used since.

jackieblack

bingo_bango wrote: »

If Recuva doesn't get them all back, you could also try Photorec. I've used it with brilliant results in the past. And it's free!

Have just successfully used this to recover photos accidentally deleted from a memory card in a digital camera - thanks for the tip!