deleted honeymoon pictures----help

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My husband made our recylcing bin permently delete anything that was sent to
Recycling bin. I accidently recycled honeymoon pictures. Thought i could go
and save them but they were gone. Can I find them again on my computer or are
they lost forever? PLease help.
 
roch123 said:
My husband made our recylcing bin permently delete anything that was sent
to
Recycling bin. I accidently recycled honeymoon pictures. Thought i could
go
and save them but they were gone. Can I find them again on my computer or
are
they lost forever? PLease help.
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First of all, *stop* using the system for anything (ie, power if off) until
you decide what you want to do. Everytime a file, even a temporary one, is
written, you risk losing bits of data permanently by overwriting the
physical location of the deleted files on the drive.

Having said that, this comes down to a matter worth, either intrinsic or
financial. There are programs commercially available that can recover items
on your hard drive even after you've deleted them from your Recycle Bin,
however, the success of them is generally hit or miss. If you're willing to
take the risk of losing these pictures forever, then attempting one of these
programs may be an option for you. Google for "File Recovery".

However, if losing the pictures is not something you want to risk or if they
are of enough value to you, a significantly better option would be to take
the system to a company that specializes in data recovery. This is *not* an
inexpensive option but is has a much greater chance of being successful.
 
roch123 said:
My husband made our recylcing bin permently delete anything that was sent to
Recycling bin. I accidently recycled honeymoon pictures. Thought i could go
and save them but they were gone. Can I find them again on my computer or are
they lost forever? PLease help.
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If you turned the machine off shortly after (or at least stopped doing
anything that would write to the disk, i.e., IE, new mail, Diskeeper,
startup or shutdown) you may have a chance. If your pictures are not on
the same partition as windows, you'll have an excellent chance of
recovery. Then you need one of several programs (that don't need to be
installed) to find the "deleted" files. One good program is
http://aumha.org/downloads/restoration.exe. It's free and fits on a
floppy. If you have access to another computer, use it to download the
program. Good luck.

Oh, also, if you downloaded the pictures from a digital camera, there
are programs available that will restore pictures from that media. Same
caveat about re-writing applies, but that's your best bet.
 
Your post simply begs the question of why didn't you burn them to CD?

You trusted your wedding photos to a hard drive that can die at any time?

If you are lucky and can get your photos back, do not do anything else until
you have burned them to CD, preferably more than once.

There is no excuse for not archiving important data such as photos, etc.

Bobby
 
Something here may help:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/datrec.htm

In the future ALWAYS keep back-ups of ALL important data.
As long as all your data is only on the hard drive, you are as close to
losing the data as having a catastrophic hard drive failur.
It is not a question of if the drive will fail, but when.
 

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