Re: deleted photos
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:48:03 -0700
Shauna wrote:
I thought I copied my photos to a disk so I deleted my photo files
and then emptied my recycle bin. I know I should have checked but...
These photos are important to me and I would like to get them back.
I don't know my computer very well. Please someone help me. Thank
you.
"Deleting" a file doesn't actually delete it; it just marks the space as
available to be used. There are third-party programs that can sometimes
recover deleted files. The problem is that the space used by the file is
likely to become overwritten very quickly, and this makes the file
unrecoverable.
So your chances of successfully recovering this file are decent if you try
recovering it immediately after deleting it, and rapidly go downhill from
there. If you've been using the computer since then (for example to write
this question and read this answer), your chances may be very poor by now.
But if the file is important enough, it's worth a try anyway. Stop using the
computer in question immediately, if you haven't done so already. Download
an undelete program (here's one:
http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html but there are several others
to choose from; do a Google search) on a friend's computer and bring it to
yours on a floppy to try.
How about the camera's media card. Are the photos still there? Even if
you've deleted them, if you haven't reused the card yet and overwritten the
files, you may be able to recover the files from the card. If you insert the
media card into a card reader, the card appears to the computer just like a
removable hard drive and programs like Restoration work on those media cards
too
If these fail, your only other recourse is to take the drive to a
professional file recovery company. This kind of service is very expensive
and may or may not work in your case.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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