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Help. lost photos whilst trying to make backup

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  • Dollardog
    Dollardog Posts: 1,774 Forumite
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    MadTechie wrote: »
    ooow my bad!
    What i mean is, the files on your computer may of been 0 bytes before you copied them to the USB, or their was an error on the USB that then copied them back as 0 bytes

    Sorry ma'lady :p

    No they weren't 0 bytes before I tried to copy them. Photos, thumbnails were all definitely there.
  • Dollardog
    Dollardog Posts: 1,774 Forumite
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    closed wrote: »
    If you have another partition (formatted already).

    Yes, I loaded and ran the other two programs I tried on the backup partition
  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    ok then work on the backup partition, and restore any data found to there - this software isn't free btw, but it will tell you if anything is recoverable.

    I presume you have checked the recycle bin?
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  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    This may possibly allow you to view the thumbnails, but it sounds like thumbs.db has been updated.

    http://www.itsamples.com/thumbnail-database-viewer.html
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  • Dollardog
    Dollardog Posts: 1,774 Forumite
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    closed wrote: »
    ok then work on the backup partition, and restore any data found to there - this software isn't free btw, but it will tell you if anything is recoverable.

    I presume you have checked the recycle bin?

    I've tried to unzip it, but it doesn't seem to want to run.
  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    edited 21 April 2010 at 1:55AM
    what happens? You need the correct one for the disk format, ntfs or fat

    The zip file should have a setup.exe, run that.
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    > . !!!! ----> .
  • Dollardog
    Dollardog Posts: 1,774 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    closed wrote: »
    ok then work on the backup partition, and restore any data found to there - this software isn't free btw, but it will tell you if anything is recoverable.

    I presume you have checked the recycle bin?


    LOL - I hadn't checked the recycle bin, but have now, not there.
  • Dollardog
    Dollardog Posts: 1,774 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    closed wrote: »
    what happens? You need the correct one for the disk format, ntfs or fat

    The zip file should have a setup.exe, run that.


    Just got into it, but don't know what option to choose
  • RussJK
    RussJK Posts: 2,359 Forumite
    Dollardog wrote: »
    Just got into it, but don't know what option to choose

    Most likely NTFS. If you go into 'My Computer' and right click on Drive C, followed by PROPERTIES, it'll show you. Prolly under the 'general' tab. It'll say NTFS file system.
  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    keep clicking next, highlight the c partition
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