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Windows XP My Documents

Vanbis · 2009-01-10 18:28:51

I deleted the folder My Documents from windows a few months back and it loads of sub folders with pictures of weddings and Christening, holidays, i dont know what i was thinking. I checked the recycle bin and nothing. I downloaded a program called "Power Data Recovery" and i have two harddrives connected, C:/drive & D:. I…

10-01-2009 6:28pm

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I deleted the folder My Documents from windows a few months back and it loads of sub folders with pictures of weddings and Christening, holidays, i dont know what i was thinking. I checked the recycle bin and nothing. I downloaded a program called "Power Data Recovery" and i have two harddrives connected, C:/drive & . I have scanned both drives today and all it brings back is images from websites etc and a few photos.

Just wondering if its even possbile to recovery the pictures?

Any tips

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#2 10-01-2009 6:32pm

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In XP your My Documents folder is stored here

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents

Assuming USERNAME is your username for XP and you haven't changed your username at any point.

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#3 10-01-2009 8:45pm

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recuva might be worth a try

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#4 10-01-2009 9:28pm

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www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
free
does not write to the disk so won't make things worse
open source

of course if you have overwritten the data then recovery is virtually impossible

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