Help... Lost files

[El Cugino]

Prior to coming home from Vacation, I showed all my pictures taken
while on vacation in Hawaii to my daughter from my laptop. I had
previously stored them there from my Digital Camera. When I returned
home the next day, the file folder HAWAII was not on the hard drive.
I looked in the recycle bin to see if it had been deleted. It was not
there. There was one picture there that I had deleted. I restored it
from the recycle bin and it came back to the hard drive in a folder
called HAWAII. That's where it was when I deleted it. The other
pictures are not there.

I hesitate to do anything on the laptop because the picture files
would be written over if they can be recovered. My questions are:

1. Will a system restore to an earlier date do the trick? If not,
will it over write where the missing pictures are?

2. Should I look for restoration software to undelete files?

Any help would be appreciated. There are about 200 pictures that I
treasure there.


Vince

 

[chad]

Hi Vince, here is some data recovery software (free) which may be able
to locate your lost pictures. The more you use your computer before
recovery, the less chance you'll get your pictures back intact.

http://free-backup.info/data-recovery-software.htm

 

[Donny Broome]

I've had good success recovering lost data with Recvoer4all Pro:
http://www.recover4all.com/register.htm

It is NOT 100%, however.


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[El Cugino]

I downloaded the free one and put it on an external Hard drive so as
not to write to the Hard drive and take a chance on overwriting... No
joy there.

I then purchased Recover my Files version 3.8 and installed it on the
external drive. Had no joy there either.

I was able to use 3.8 and get the last 30 pics that were deleted on my
Camera Flash disk.

It's strange. I demonstrated the Hawaii file, using Windows XP fax
viewer. Shut down the notebook normally. The next time I used the
Notebook, the file was gone. I'm afraid to use System restore to
the last date I had the file. Will this work? Has anyone used System
Restore to find lost files?

Vince