£250 Spent On My Pc Cause I Did A Silly Thing

SNOW_QUEEN_3

HAD TO get help. twice at £65 an hour , he did get me back on line ,and buy new router ,£54,,,, he put easy recovery on my pc , to help me find 5yrs of pics, i cant find them ,he did find some ,they have come back all single pics with loads of rubbish ,,says they may be in a small space on the hard drive ,,, can any help and advise me , also lost word ... i went into safe mode and did something awfull,, dont no wat i did but i do remember files going from one onvelope to another ,,,, if any one can give me some hope of getting my pics back ,,please get in touch ,,,, if any techie in the liverpool area wants to earn £100 today to come and sort this out , get in touch ,,,oh and i cant connect my epsom stylus DX3800 with the disc ,,,,,
help help help ... :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Browntoa

I wonder if you have managed to do a "system recovery" where the PC is set back to it's factory defaults

the bad news then is that it has overwritten the data on your existing data, hence the lack of recoverable pictures

I suspect, however upsetting that is, that the loss is not recoverable

SNOW_QUEEN_3

hi thanks for reply ---but if i did a system recovery ,would that take me back to wen my pc was broke ,,,,,

bookduck

SNOW_QUEEN wrote: »

....,,, he put easy recovery on my pc , to help me find 5yrs of pics, i cant find them ,he did find some, they have come back all single pics with loads of rubbish ,,...

Can't be sure what happened or what has been done but, on you PC to recover the photos - installed s.w before he recovered the photos - are you sure??? If you have the normal 1 partition setup then this is a definite no-no. If he used the s/w then installed it after recovery then that is ok, but saying that, again we do not know the whole story but sound much more than missing pictures especially since you had your router replaced too and two visits?

It is a bit late now. If anything goes missing again, the first thing you have to do is not use your PC at all. The techie should then either boot from a cd to recover your data onto a usb device; or alternatively remove your hdd and put it into his system with the recovery s/w on his system. The last things you ever want to do is to write, save, install back to the the deleted hard disk while recovering data, as it may overwrite/change data.

Doubly late as there is some free recovery s/w on line that has been mentioned on this forum. I know it won't help you, but may others.

£65 the going rate these days? Think i'm going to stop messing around with those severs

[Deleted User]

Wow, for that money I could have bought you a new PC.. but it makes me want to backup my photos

Personally, i'd have prioritised getting your images by taken your hard disk out the box machine, plugging it into another machine and copying the images off. For £65 an hour, you should get that kind of service.

When ultimate disaster hits: Find a way of getting your important files off your PC (you may want to invest 50 quid into buying a portable HD) then run a system recovery disk (these will create a blank, working PC)

Then again, my hourly rate is £97

ormus

i need to put my rates up!
only charge 40 quid for the first hour and then 20 ph.

[Deleted User]

Sadly, it's not me that charges £97 an hour, that's the rate my firm charges for consultancy.. i don't do PC maintenance - i work on hospital IT systems (and now you know why the NHS's IT project costs billions).

Considering there are only a couple of hundred people in the world that do my specific role, it's not an unreasonable rate.

Edit: I use to charge £7 an hour when I was 16 to do this kind of work ... I bet you can find a young sprog that'll do it for a tenner an hour now.

bookduck

I too am nhs, but a permie, not the lowest of the low, but on £11.xx an hour. This year will see quite a few nhs IT people leave - if the economy hold out!

Wonder if ringo_24601 works in London, as we had/have quite a few contractors, the most expensive were alleged to be on £1000 per day and also alleged they still did other NHS consulting during their work time for extra £££ - getting paid twice for the same job so to speak. they lasted 9 months.

So at £97ph your still cheap ringo_24601

Conor_3

SNOW_QUEEN wrote: »

HAD TO get help. twice at £65 an hour , he did get me back on line ,and buy new router ,£54,,,, he put easy recovery on my pc , to help me find 5yrs of pics, i cant find them ,he did find some ,they have come back all single pics with loads of rubbish ,,says they may be in a small space on the hard drive ,,, can any help and advise me , also lost word ... i went into safe mode and did something awfull,, dont no wat i did but i do remember files going from one onvelope to another ,,,, if any one can give me some hope of getting my pics back ,,please get in touch ,,,, if any techie in the liverpool area wants to earn £100 today to come and sort this out , get in touch ,,,oh and i cant connect my epsom stylus DX3800 with the disc ,,,,,
help help help ... :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

The pictures are lost. Simple as that. They've most likely been overwritten which means you can't retrieve them.

That's what happens when you ignore all the advice that there has been on TV, in magazines and even on this site about backing your data up.

Maybe you'll learn the lesson but I doubt it.

£100 to sort out the mess you've got on a bank holiday? Not sodding likely. Not likely for a normal working day either.

You've completely !!!!!!ed it with your hamfistedness and it needs whatever is recoverable backing up and Windows then all the applications and drivers installing from scratch. There's a good 7-8hrs there. I assume you have all the installation CDs, the serial numbers for Windows and Office and also all the login details for your e-mail and ISP? No? There's a surprise - add another 2 hours.

So let me get this right..£100 for 10 hours work on a bank holiday? I'd earn more working in the local factory putting cherries on cakes.

culpepper

Connor that is very harsh!

Snow Queen...

What format are your pictures in? If they are somewhere on the drive you can search for them. If they are in jpg then you need to go to the search in start,click all files and folders,type *.jpg and it will find all the files of jpg format that are still on the system. Then if you do find any of your photos, back them up to CD or DVD. Its worth a try.

Have a look at a program called cdroller, that can find lost files and folders on hard drives and CDs and dvds you can download it from tucows as a trial and it is 39$ to purchase. We used it to recover some photos for a man at my husbands work. He had saved all his pictures to a DVD and they hadnt saved properly so he had lost loads but we did manage to salvage some of them.

stevemcol

conor, kick a lady when she's down why don't you. we all make mistakes.