New Acer deleted files without prior warning on a external hard drive

spud17

Cottage_Economy wrote: »

Suuuuppppeeerrrbbb!!!!!!!! Thank you! That worked.




Hi Taverman, it worked very well. I believe I have got back most if not all of the files. Just the task of sorting them out. As the file creation dates are still in the properties it shouldn't take too long.


Will go across and donate now. Thanks tavernman.

Can't remember which operating system you're using, but Google how to show file extensions.
I did this, then I used this to search for files using an asterisk, e.g. in search box, put *.jpeg
I then copied the resulting files into their own folder something obvious.
Repeat for each file type into it's own folder.
I found this made it easier to sort them.

tavernman

spud17 wrote: »

It's a great program.
If you're a bit more advanced, it can also be used to recover/rebuild partition tables.
The one time I used it in this manner, all the data reappeared, and the disk lasted long enough for me to recover all the data.

It is indeed Spud, welcome to my w/e :cool:

tavernman

Jeffery1679 wrote: »

[FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]You may try some free data recovery software such as [/FONT][FONT=&quot]xxxxxxxx[/FONT] or Revuca to recover lost photos if they are not overwritten by new data. Good luck... [/FONT]

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