How do i ??? - Saxperience

DJsaxo · 22nd January 2008, 21:16

Deleted alot of picture off my computer about 30mins ago by mistake , is there any way of getting them back ? . I have checked the recycle bin but they are not i there

( because of the settings got chanced so it wouldn't hold any deleted items in there , which i have chanced now ) .

There is over 300 pictures and most of them are importent to me and aot family pictures .

Is there any way of getting them back ? Please help there must be a way to get them back ....

Certi · 22nd January 2008, 21:53

Just do a system restore. Takes you back to a preset date and all the pics should still be there.

DJsaxo · 22nd January 2008, 22:02

Tryed that , didn't work .

Asaxo · 22nd January 2008, 22:21

I think you may have lost it for good mate

DJsaxo · 22nd January 2008, 22:24

Just what i thought .

But if anyone has any idea to get them all back please post .

GrantW · 22nd January 2008, 22:28

Take it to a PC specialist, they should be able to get it back since the stuff isnt actually wiped off the hard drive totally, thats how the police catch all the paedo's etc who delete stuff

danmc · 22nd January 2008, 22:29

Try This Smart Undelete v2.9

DJsaxo · 22nd January 2008, 22:48

Thanks i'll have a look now .

Zuton · 22nd January 2008, 23:35

if you just selected them and pressed delete they may still be in the recycle bin..then just restore them..

danmc · 22nd January 2008, 23:42

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Originally Posted by Zuton

if you just selected them and pressed delete they may still be in the recycle bin..then just restore them..

Pls Read

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Originally Posted by DJsaxo

I have checked the recycle bin but they are not i there ) .

There is over 300 pictures and most of them are importent to me and aot family pictures .

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Originally Posted by Certi

Just do a system restore. Takes you back to a preset date and all the pics should still be there.

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Originally Posted by DJsaxo

Tryed that , didn't work .

Alex^p · 22nd January 2008, 23:45

I would stop using your PC tbh, The more you use it the more chance the files are being overwritten.

If you can hook up your hard drive to another PC then run some recovery software.

DJsaxo · 22nd January 2008, 23:52

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Originally Posted by Alex

I would stop using your PC tbh, The more you use it the more chance the files are being overwritten.

If you can hook up your hard drive to another PC then run some recovery software.

Found a programe on the net called File Recovery from a site called Pc Tools and it's about 35 % though at the moment and by the looks of it it has found a few of the picture , so hopfully by the end of it it will find them all .

Alex^p · 23rd January 2008, 02:43

Worst thing you can do is install software on the affected machine.
It could end up overwriting half the stuff your trying to recover.

betty02 · 23rd January 2008, 08:53

That god i have a server with previous versions set-up

DJsaxo · 23rd January 2008, 10:35

Yes got them all back now

. After all night waitig for the programe to scan my computer .

betty02 · 23rd January 2008, 10:40

glad you have matey! never really undertsand how sum1 can dlete so mnay pictures they want as the have to highlight, press dlete, confirm it lol! and then empty bin lol!

Brooksy · 23rd January 2008, 11:58

i would of recommended file scavanger! i used file recover and did nothing for me.
I lost gig's worth of stuff when i accidently reformated the wrong drive...

and file scavenger got everythign back.
(make sur eyou install program on the drive that isn't affected, runs smoother and you won't get problems)
Well done for getting them back though, hate that when that happens. but you always know that you can get them back 80% of the time. Just goes to show when u delete stuff formthe bin they arn't deleted

Only way to clean ur drive is a program called 'wipe' or something...

djmartin · 23rd January 2008, 12:20

when i have really important stuff on my pc i make sure i havea back up i.e copy the stuff to dvd OR put them to an external HD

never trust technology its man made so its bound to go wrong now and again lol

DJsaxo · 23rd January 2008, 19:10

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Originally Posted by betty02

glad you have matey! never really undertsand how sum1 can dlete so mnay pictures they want as the have to highlight, press dlete, confirm it lol! and then empty bin lol!

I was cleaning up all my stuff and putting everything into new folders and ihighlighted the wrong folders which had the pictures in , if you read the first post the settings of the recycle bin was that it would not hold any deleted items so when i noticed what i had done i changed the settings .

But now i have them all back i have copied them all onto disk .

gd16 · 23rd January 2008, 21:02

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Originally Posted by betty02

glad you have matey! never really undertsand how sum1 can dlete so mnay pictures they want as the have to highlight, press dlete, confirm it lol! and then empty bin lol!

Highlight a few files. Hold down shift, hit delete, let go of shift, hit enter. Takes all of about 2 seconds, and thats the files deleted. Doesn't put them into the recycle bin - just deletes them. Almost deleted things accidentaly myself a number of times as its done before you know it.

And as mentioned, you can turn the recycle bin feature off so things don't go there anyhow.

A hard drive has a Master Boot Record (MBR) that stores details on where each file is on the drive, and how big it is etc etc. When you delete things on your computer, you don't actually delete the data, you delete the reference to that particular file in the MBR. This is how the data can be recovered - as long as the data itself hasn't been overwritten through use/new files/defrag etc etc