Get files back after deleted? is it possible

AWILLIAMS64 2005-07-06 22:11:08 UTC #1

Im not sure if i am in the right forum but i desparately need some help. I just accidently deleted a bunch of my digital pictures of my kids to my recycle bin and then emptied my recycle bin. Is it possible to get them back>?????

AWILLIAMS64 2005-07-06 22:23:20 UTC #2

i think i found some answers w/ search tool......

blitz10 2005-07-06 22:58:15 UTC #3

that's good....

AWILLIAMS64 2005-07-06 23:23:37 UTC #4

actually something different actually happened on this one....i was moving and coombining all of my pictures and i had some duplicates....and when i dumped them into a single folder it said replace w/ file name and i said yes to all., what i did not realize is that my camera had named some of the pics the same name as others and it replaced them.....so is there any way to get the replaced pics back???

Namoh 2005-07-06 23:34:59 UTC #5

Probably not, because you've overwriten the files.

But I'm not specialized with this so maube some other member can help you.

StringTheory 2005-07-06 23:50:08 UTC #6

Do NOT write anything to the drive. Let's hope that you store your
data on another drive aside from C: cause there's no way to shut down
the system without writing to the C: drive. Any newly written file will
use space that is now flagged as free, and chances are very good that
it will overwrite your picture files.

So...presuming that you can keep the drive intact, you can search for
file recovery programs. The ones that I know of are not free, but use
them as a starting point for Google searches:
Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro
Get Data Back by http://www.runtime.org

I've used Ontrack to do similar things with a crashed drive. Also be
aware that you cannot write the recovery data back to the same drive.
You need to have enough space available on another drive.

harley2ride 2005-07-07 13:40:46 UTC #7

If you are using Windows XP, restoring back to the day before you did that should fix it... Just use the system restore function.

AWILLIAMS64 2005-07-07 13:57:05 UTC #8

i am using xp, the only problem is the newest pictures that i put on were the ones that were replaced....i put them on my c drive and then moved them later to a new directory on d drive and then dumped all old pics into the same directory, at that point is when they were replaced. I also formatted my memory card after i put the pics on my computer...i never do this until a couple of days later usually but yesterday i went ahead and did it and now it has come back to haunt me....so my restore will not work in this instanvce....it will only restore back to 2 days prior....

harley2ride 2005-07-07 19:28:00 UTC #9

Sorry dude.. You can try badcopypro. It is a very good recovery software, and might at least recover most of the files.

justcallmebob 2005-07-07 20:12:06 UTC #10

File Scavenger worked for me. It even recovered data from a disk array . . .

Good luck.

petremure 2005-07-08 08:21:29 UTC #11

There are apps ford retrieving deleted files from other media than pc hdd (digicams' cards, etc.). Try a google search for them. P.

AWILLIAMS64 2005-07-10 23:57:58 UTC #12

thanks to justcallmebob, i used file scavenger and was able to retrieve all of my pics that were deleted....it worked great, it even worked on a floppy disk that i had formatted that previously had pictures on...great program. again thanks for everything!!!!

Chicago 2005-07-11 00:27:42 UTC #13

@awilliams64
I'm assuming ('cos you're here) that you have a burner of some sort. It's a really good idea to archive all your pictures to CD before you start to manipulate them. What's the cost of a CD/DVD against all this hassle??

AWILLIAMS64 2005-07-11 07:24:50 UTC #14

that is what i was in the process of doing, i will definitely back them all up before i do something like that again!!!!!