Help...emergency! 31 January 2011 at 7:30PM in Techie Stuff 28 replies 1.7K views

mintymoneysaver

Bought a new seagate hard drive today, and have just plugged it in and started to set about transferring music picures etc from the computer to it. I had transferred all my pictures and music, and then set about my daughter's. One of her music files just totally froze the computer, so I switched the computer off and back on. Now all my stuff has disappeared! I feel so stupid, and I think all her music has disappeared too. I know I will be able to get it back off her ipod onto the computer, but all my pictures too? I'd emptied the recycle bin because the whole point of doing this was to free up space on the computer and now I could cry. All my pictures disappeared. The yellow warning triangle keeps appearing in the corner telling me data has been lost. Is there any chance at all of retrieving anything????

I could just cry. I would have thought once I'd transferred it it would be safe but it just has gone, and of course once I'd moved it over I cut and pasted it rather than copying because I wanted to clear the computer...

spakkker

Try recuva - http://majorgeeks.com/Recuva_Portable_d5514.html

davb

Yes there is a chance, but no guarantees.
First check the external hard drive to see if there is anything on there.

If there isn't, you need to use some data recovery software such as Recuva or GetDataBack on your PC.
A couple of important rules though:
1. The less you use the PC the more chance of recovery
2. Recover files to an external drive and NOT the drive you are recovering from (ideally run the recover software from a different drive as well).

SKIPPY

I was just about to recommend Recuva but Spakker beat me to it, I deleted some photo's by accident and was able to retrieve them using this programme. Thanks to a recommendation on here.

mintymoneysaver

Thanks, I know I'm being stupid but I've got myself into such a state I can't even see where to click on that page...

mintymoneysaver

The external hard drive has got nothing of mine at all on there, and the only thing of my daugghter's is what I put in there after I had restarted it and before I realised what had happened. Could I just save them back to the PC? I have got a pen drive iI could use as well, or I could try and save them to the seagate again?

spakkker

top , centre under "download locations" - [email protected]

Get recuva and see what it advises - it just says to a different h/drive

mintymoneysaver

Okay I've now got a rcsetup139[1] which contains lang licence portable recuva and recuva 64. What should I click on now?

davb

mintymoneysaver wrote: »

The external hard drive has got nothing of mine at all on there, and the only thing of my daugghter's is what I put in there after I had restarted it and before I realised what had happened. Could I just save them back to the PC? I have got a pen drive iI could use as well, or I could try and save them to the seagate again?

Don't even think of recovering to the drive where they deleted from.
I would try the pen drive, as the Seagate is potentially faulty - if the files have gone - and you may be able to try recuva on that as well.

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The yellow warning triangle keeps appearing in the corner telling me data has been lost

what yellow triangle?

mintymoneysaver

Sorry, in the bottom right hand corner off the screen. Tells me it failed to save data. I have now wotked out how to use recuva but it doessn't seem to have saved anything recent. Going to try agan with the deep search.