help - I've deleted all my photos!

frugalsar

I have been trying to sort my files out and put all of my nearly 2000 photos into one folder and deleted some other stuff and moved stuff round, now i cant find the photos! I restored everything in my recycle bin and set my computer back to last weeks restore point and still cant find them! I tried doing a search on the c drive and some of the folders come up but when I click on them it says it cannot find them (even though theres a little preveiw of it in the bottom left hand corner! I'm sooooo worried as theese are all the photos I've taken of my kids since they were born! and my wedding photos!
please help!!!!!!!!

espresso

Quite simple, just restore them from your back-ups.

You did make back-up copies didn't you?

frugalsar

no....boo hoo!

Conor_3

System Restore won't restore user files. If you had Vista Ultimate or Business, you could restore a previous copy which was made using the Shadow Copy Service.

fwor

frugalsar wrote: »

I tried doing a search on the c drive and some of the folders come up but when I click on them it says it cannot find them (even though theres a little preveiw of it in the bottom left hand corner!

There's something odd going on there. Possibly your hard drive is corrupted? Have your tried checking the drive out?

If not, open a Command Prompt and type

chkdsk c: /f

If you then reboot it will check the disk before starting Windows.

frugalsar

no i just have vista

fwor

Sorry, I don't know how to check the hard drive in Vista, but someone else who does should be along in a minute or two...

frugalsar

fwor wrote: »

There's something odd going on there. Possibly your hard drive is corrupted? Have your tried checking the drive out?

If not, open a Command Prompt and type

chkdsk c: /f

If you then reboot it will check the disk before starting Windows.

I treid this and it said - Access denied as you do not have suffient privilages

frugalsar

It's really odd because there are little tiny images of the pictures in the bottom left hand corner?

PasturesNew

I wonder if you've dragged/dropped them into the wrong place.

Have you done a search for them? Using Start, Search.... ?

frugalsar

I tried that, a few - about 20 all from random folders are there but not the other 1980-odd???