Searching for 'lost' or deleted files

[SS]

I recently seem to have lost some jpeg files on my XP Home machine. I know
they were there recently as I was looking at my pictures. I don't think I
accidentally deleted them and they aren't in the recycle bin. presumably as
I have not reformatted my HDD recently if they are deleted or otherwise lost
I could revive them, but is there any freeware I can use to search for my
files and restore them?

Thanks

 

[Patrick Heffernan]

SS said the following on 25/03/2006 8:23 PM:

I recently seem to have lost some jpeg files on my XP Home machine. I know
they were there recently as I was looking at my pictures. I don't think I
accidentally deleted them and they aren't in the recycle bin. presumably as
I have not reformatted my HDD recently if they are deleted or otherwise lost
I could revive them, but is there any freeware I can use to search for my
files and restore them?

You might want to try DataRecovery. You can download it from
http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/dr.html

Key-features

* FAT12,FAT16,FAT32,NTFS undeletion
* undelete NTFS compressed files
* undelete EFS encrypted files
* runnable from floppy disk
* search by partial string in the file name
* undelete whole files in a directory
* undelete multiple files by selecting them with Shift/Ctrl key
* sort items displayed by clicking column headers

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[someone]

I recently seem to have lost some jpeg files on my XP Home machine. I know
they were there recently as I was looking at my pictures. I don't think I
accidentally deleted them and they aren't in the recycle bin. presumably
as
I have not reformatted my HDD recently if they are deleted or otherwise
lost
I could revive them, but is there any freeware I can use to search for my
files and restore them?

Thanks

Or try PCI File Recovery:
http://www.winplanet.com/category/2370-1-d.htm

It`s the 3rd one down.

 

[ctowers]

I recently seem to have lost some jpeg files on my XP Home machine. I know
they were there recently as I was looking at my pictures. I don't think I
accidentally deleted them and they aren't in the recycle bin. presumably as
I have not reformatted my HDD recently if they are deleted or otherwise lost
I could revive them, but is there any freeware I can use to search for my
files and restore them?

Thanks

have you tried the windows search utility first ??
search for *.jpg and/or *.jpeg files

ct

 

[Egwig the Fit]

Picasa searches for and displays thumbnails of every image on your hard
drive.
Egwig

 

[Al Klein]

I recently seem to have lost some jpeg files on my XP Home machine. I know
they were there recently as I was looking at my pictures. I don't think I
accidentally deleted them and they aren't in the recycle bin. presumably as
I have not reformatted my HDD recently if they are deleted or otherwise lost
I could revive them, but is there any freeware I can use to search for my
files and restore them?

If you've rebooted and written to disk since you lost them, they may
be overwritten, and that would make them unrecoverable.

 

[anno_triangle]

Hi,

While there is still a chance to restore I suppose trying data recovery
tools. When I was in a simmilar situation the tool I've used was
perfectly able to bring back erased files. That one was Undelete, it is
really powerful and reliable, you can try it out.
http://www.active-undelete.com/

 

[ellis_jay]

SS said the following on 25/03/2006 8:23 PM:

You might want to try DataRecovery. You can download it from
http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/dr.html

Key-features

* FAT12,FAT16,FAT32,NTFS undeletion
* undelete NTFS compressed files
* undelete EFS encrypted files
* runnable from floppy disk
* search by partial string in the file name
* undelete whole files in a directory
* undelete multiple files by selecting them with Shift/Ctrl key
* sort items displayed by clicking column headers

thanx

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I don't know what's more pathetic, Jack Abramoff's sleaze or Republican
paralysis in the face of it. Abramoff walks out of a D.C. courthouse in
his pseudo-Hasidic homburg, and all that leading Republicans can do is
promise to return his money and remind everyone that some Democrats are
involved in the scandal, too.

That's a great G.O.P. talking point: some Democrats are so sleazy, they
get involved with the likes of us.

_______David Brooks


Ellis_Jay

 

[ellis_jay]

SS said the following on 25/03/2006 8:23 PM:

You might want to try DataRecovery. You can download it from
http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/dr.html

Works pretty good-over 9000 things found. Some as far back as 2003.
Surprised me as I have defragged a time or three-or should I have not been
surprised? Am I missing something here about the defrag process? (Winxp
Home here)

--
I don't know what's more pathetic, Jack Abramoff's sleaze or Republican
paralysis in the face of it. Abramoff walks out of a D.C. courthouse in
his pseudo-Hasidic homburg, and all that leading Republicans can do is
promise to return his money and remind everyone that some Democrats are
involved in the scandal, too.

That's a great G.O.P. talking point: some Democrats are so sleazy, they
get involved with the likes of us.

_______David Brooks


Ellis_Jay