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| 433830 | 2006-02-25 22:27:00 | Hi There OS is Win XP H Ed. I saved over 150 digital images from my camera into the F drive which was ver recently installed. Few days later I found many deleted files in the Recycling Bin and that included these pictures! Accidently I cleaned (deleted) the Bin! Then only I realised that there was no pictures left in the F drive! I have since the last few days been trying to restore it after talking to some of my colleagues who are computer experts. As per their directions, I found a few programmes to recover the files but many of them just demo or trial ones which won't let you see what the programmes did with the pictures or give an idea that all of them have been recovered. So I find it hard to jump into buying one of them. Please give me some sensible advice on this as to how to go about it. Thanks ramu |
ramu (726) | ||
| 433831 | 2006-02-25 22:38:00 | Get Back Data fro FAT or NTFS in my book is the best, not cheap though http://www.runtime.org/ I recently recoverd 164GB /165GB of Data from a drive that had the partitions deleted, new partitions created and formatted and 4GB of new data paced on it Over the years I've tried them all and consider this to be the best there is at the mo for the price Or you could try some of these free ones www.pcworld.com I've heard good things about 'Restoration' although I've never used it myself Remember that the more "fiddling" you do to get the data back will actually reduce the success rate |
bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 433832 | 2006-02-25 22:43:00 | Forensically speaking, you are supposed to turn the machine off the instant you realise data may lose its integrity. This is so the data you've deleted doesn't get written over (check up on how harddrive filesystems work). After doing this you would install some form a writeblocker and get an image of the drive to work with, this might be a little more h-core than you're wanting to worry about :). The program mostly used is encase or FTK. I think you can get a free demo of FTK which might be of assistance to you. Expect a bit of a learning curve on how to use it though. There are companies that do it in Auckland (haha I work for one) but expect to pay for it! |
DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 433833 | 2006-02-25 23:42:00 | Thanks Bartsdadhomer and DD. | ramu (726) | ||
| 433834 | 2006-02-26 00:38:00 | You could try recovering the deleted pics from the memory card itself. One such program that I have in my Downloads folder is Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery which I have not had to use myself yet but I think I got the link from a recommendation here. It might be worth a try - grab from either here (www.winsite.com) or here (www.download3k.com). Good luck. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 433835 | 2006-02-26 00:57:00 | The basic principle is that you never, ever, attempt to restore the files to the disk they were deleted on. :D (That's for any process which reads, then writes the actual data. The "empty" space on that disk includes the missing files. Restoring directory entries is less dangerous). |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 433836 | 2006-03-10 20:47:00 | Thanks Foxy & Graham. | ramu (726) | ||
| 433837 | 2006-03-10 21:01:00 | Forensically speaking, you are supposed to turn the machine off the instant you realise data may lose its integrity. This is so the data you've deleted doesn't get written over (check up on how harddrive filesystems work). After doing this you would install some form a writeblocker and get an image of the drive to work with, this might be a little more h-core than you're wanting to worry about. Strictly speaking this only applies to files deleted from your OS drive, usually C:, or any drive or partition that has data automatically written to it. If your F: drive is data only, and you have not been writing other data to it, you have apretty good chance of recovering all of your images. There is no point in trying to do it on the cheap though, so unless you can find a freeware undelete utility, if the images are important you are better off to pay for a professional product. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 433838 | 2006-03-10 21:15:00 | I would be interested to know how you got on, ramu. | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 433839 | 2006-03-10 22:26:00 | You could try recovering the deleted pics from the memory card itself . One such program that I have in my Downloads folder is Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery which I have not had to use myself yet but I think I got the link from a recommendation here . It might be worth a try - grab from either here ( . winsite . com/bin/Info?16500000036329" target="_blank">www . winsite . com) or here ( . download3k . com/Zero-Assumption-Digital-Image-Recovery/Download-Free-setup_ir . exe . html" target="_blank">www . download3k . com) . Good luck . Hi Foxy It worked? Incredible! It drew all almost all the pictures from my camera itself! Unbelievable! All that I inserted in it was a 16MB sample Mcard, O my God! It is superb! Thanks so much . I have contacted them to let me purchase it which doesn't seem to be the case . |
ramu (726) | ||
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