Lost files

[Gilli99]

Earlier this year, I had a problem with my PC. So, I called PC World, with whom I have a repair contract...after some discussion with the tech fella on the phone, he suggested that I perform a partial recovery process. He assured me that a partial recovery would not lose any saved files...this message also appeared onscreen when I accessed the recovery mode.

 

Well, I followed his instructions to the letter and......lost all my photographs!! They were saved in 'My Documents'. (I've learned the lesson and now store them at a web storage album.)

 

I was wondering if there is any way I could regain those files and, if so, how to do it? PCWorld will charge £80 to do the job, I cant afford that.

 

I have Windows XP on a Packard Bell tower PC. I use Norton Security.

 

Can anyone help, please? :confused:

[snow]

Hi Gill,

 

How long ago was it that you lost your photographs? If it has been more than a few days and you have been using the computer during that time then the chance of recoving deleted files will be pretty slim.

 

Giving a PC World 'Tech' £80 is like tossing said money out of the nearest window in my opinon. All they will do in this case is run a file recovery program, something you can do yourself, and with just as much chance of success.

[DiscoSass]

There are file recovery programs out there.

 

I have managed to recover files, photos, movies, etc, etc even after formatting drives, deleting, system resores.

 

I havnt got any program names at hand, but there are plenty out there!

[danzil]

As snow said.

the longer you use that drive the more you are over writing the data....

when you delete anything from your hard drive (format too) you dont really delete anything..you just basically flag places on the hard drive that can be over written (thats it in short).

so unless you are not using that drive,or you have another backup there is an extremely thin chance of recovering that data....

 

for future reference, here are some recovery tools i use.

 

ontrack data recovery.

auslogic backup pro.

recuva.

there are a few good freeware programmes around too.

 

regards

danzil

:)