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Noel S Pamfree
I was using a friend's computer that runs under Vista which for some reason
has a 64 bit version of Home Premium on it.
He wanted to organise his collection from the rather haphazard way they were
stored in 'Pictures'. I copied some photographs to a new folder on the same
hard drive and after checking they were in their new folder, I deleted the
originals. When I went back to the folder it refused me access and as far as
I could see the folder was empty. They were not in the recycle bin - which
is not surpassing as there were a lot of them, though I never got a message
telling me they would not fit in and was it OK to delete them anyway.
I order to try to get them back I ran Undelete-plus (www.undelete-plus.com)
from a memory stick, asking it to preserve file structure. It took 25 hours
to scan the disk and do its stuff.
Unfortunately the photographs were put randomly into folders and although a
lot of older photographs were recovered OK, most of the recent photographs
are damaged. Either none of the picture is visible or only half of it
(though the thumbnail often appears fully for a second before the bottom
half being greyed-out).
I have tried using 'jpeg recovery pro 3.0' to see if I could repair some of
them (on another machine) with no success.
I am asking for help for two reasons:
Firstly to ask anyone if they can shed light on why this happened. I have no
idea where the folder went that I copied the originals into
The best I can come up with is that the auto-defrag that Vista turns on
damaged some of the files once they were deleted, the 64 bit version of
Vista not being fully compatible with the software, something in the OS
corrupting, the Undelete program overwrote some deleted files whilst
re-writing the previous jpeg.
Secondly is it now too late to get any of these repaired?
Noel
P.S. I did check his external hard drive but he had not backed up for 6
months. That will be a lesson to him!
has a 64 bit version of Home Premium on it.
He wanted to organise his collection from the rather haphazard way they were
stored in 'Pictures'. I copied some photographs to a new folder on the same
hard drive and after checking they were in their new folder, I deleted the
originals. When I went back to the folder it refused me access and as far as
I could see the folder was empty. They were not in the recycle bin - which
is not surpassing as there were a lot of them, though I never got a message
telling me they would not fit in and was it OK to delete them anyway.
I order to try to get them back I ran Undelete-plus (www.undelete-plus.com)
from a memory stick, asking it to preserve file structure. It took 25 hours
to scan the disk and do its stuff.
Unfortunately the photographs were put randomly into folders and although a
lot of older photographs were recovered OK, most of the recent photographs
are damaged. Either none of the picture is visible or only half of it
(though the thumbnail often appears fully for a second before the bottom
half being greyed-out).
I have tried using 'jpeg recovery pro 3.0' to see if I could repair some of
them (on another machine) with no success.
I am asking for help for two reasons:
Firstly to ask anyone if they can shed light on why this happened. I have no
idea where the folder went that I copied the originals into
The best I can come up with is that the auto-defrag that Vista turns on
damaged some of the files once they were deleted, the 64 bit version of
Vista not being fully compatible with the software, something in the OS
corrupting, the Undelete program overwrote some deleted files whilst
re-writing the previous jpeg.
Secondly is it now too late to get any of these repaired?
Noel
P.S. I did check his external hard drive but he had not backed up for 6
months. That will be a lesson to him!