Lost all photos etc

bomber2

i have by mistake reset my laptop to factory settings,i have lost all photos.documents,music etc.tried all i know with no results,my laptop i a samsung,i was running windows 10 iam now back to windows 7

Browntoa

They're deleted and overwritten I'm afraid

dipsomaniac

is your music/photos still on your phone?

dipsomaniac

are you docs backed up to onedrive? have you not got any backups of your data anywhere else (cd, flashdrive, old pc etc etc)?

bomber2

i never backed up anything

bomber2

yes,but there were a lot more on my laptop that were not on my phone.

esuhl

bomber2 wrote: »

i never backed up anything

At least they weren't too important, then.

You might be able to recover some with software such as Recuva:
https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

If you want the best chance of recovering data, you should avoid booting or running any software on the drive (i.e. connect it to another machine).

googler

All I can suggest is - do nothing else with the laptop.

Remove the hard drive, and connect it to another machine, either via USB caddy, or as a secondary drive in a desktop, then use Recuva or similar recovery software to access anything which may remain.

dipsomaniac

bomber2 wrote: »

i never backed up anything

i gave you 'the benefit' but not sure if you are serious or not after that comment

agrinnall

dipsomaniac wrote: »

i gave you 'the benefit' but not sure if you are serious or not after that comment

Sadly they probably are serious, we see it often enough on here (and I know plenty of people in the real world who have never done a back up). Of course, we know what that makes those people, but we can't describe them on here without getting in trouble .

bomber2

to be fair there is nothing of great importance lost other than some photsos,my music was all on my phone,i did do a back up to a cd/dvd in 2016 but when i inserted it nothing had happened.i will try the route posted above.