Re: picture recovery

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On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:56:02 -0800, "harpo"

>I had a motherboard crash on me and I am trying to recover the pic's on the
>old hard drive and transfer them to my new computer and hard drive. I have
>connected the old drive to the new computer but I can't find the old files on
>the drive now.

First, make sure you can see everything - by duuuuhfault, Windows
hides hidden and system files, file name extensions, etc. Strangle
that nonsense at birth.

Next; is the old HD OK? If it is, then usually all you have to do is
find the stuff and then kick NTFS permissions out of the way by
"taking ownership" of your files (something FATxx users don't have to
bother with, at the cost of having no permissions control at all).

If OTOH the HD is not OK, i.e. it is failing or was corrupted by
whatever killed the motherboard (motherboards generally don't
"crash"... have you excluded bad RAM, HD, etc.?) then you'd have to
proceed to data recovery. That's easier on FATxx < 137G as you have
Scandisk that can contriollably fix or back out on file system errors,
as well as Diskedit to hand-repair such errors. On NTFS, you'd have
to trust "easy" auto-recovery tools that are very YMMV.

One free tool that works very well for recovering media file types is
PC Inspector Smart Recovery, which was written to recover stuff from
SD cards etc. and is thus orientated to pictures. I used this on a
camera SD card which had lost the file system metadata, and it worked
very well; I got lots offiles back, but some were truncated, probably
where the data cluster chains were fragmented.



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