Lost photo and movie files

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Jim

Went to find some photos and movies stored on my second (slave) hd, and all I
find are many, many files labeled "Thumbs.db". Is there a way to recover the
actual photos/movies, or are they gone forever? Windows XP SP2 machine. Many
are backed up on CDs, but more recent stuff seems to have floated of somewhere
in the MS atmosphere.

TIA for any help,

Jim
 
Wouldn't be too surprised. A daughter and grand daughters used my 'puter while
I was straightening out the mess that two teenagers had made of their's. The
suggested program is running as I type.......fingers crossed. High and junior
high school proms and graduations haven't been backed up.........ouch.

Jim
 
Try to recover any found files to an alternate location such as a USB drive
or second hard drive. If you try to recover found lost files to the same
drive they were originally on you run the risk of overwriting other lost
files. Also you should limit the amount of work you do on the computer as
you also overwrite deleted files as the pagefile and other temp files get
written and rewritten to the drive.
 
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