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Are pictures gone forever

  • 30-03-2010 6:18pm
    #1
    castle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 497 ✭✭


    When I was changing from XP to win 7 I forgot to save my pictures like the idiot I am,I thought my wife had alrady done this but she said she only did about half I should have checked with her first, is this death row for me,
    I still have copy of xp at home,could those pictures be anywhere.It was win 7ulimate .


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  • #2
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Truthfully? Probably.
    You could try running something like free Recuva (http://www.piriform.com/recuva) to try and gain some back but as Win7 can also format the drive during installation, it can also overwrite (with Win7 being placed there) the spaces where the pics were actually saved on the physical hard-drive.

    Its definitely worth a try anyway, you might get lucky and recover some.
    I hope you do.


  • #3
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Windows 7 cannot upgrade from Vista. It needs to remove and recreate the entire OS, and thats a lot of disk activity (you need to minimise the amount of usage on the disk for the best chance of being able to recover files, particularly with non professional techniques).

    If there were any modifications to the NTFS system between Windows XP and 7, or if Windows XP was installed on a FAT32 disk then it will need to have updated the file system also meaning there is less chance again that they would be recoverable.


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    photorec to an external hdd


  • #5
    IamMetaldave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭IamMetaldave


    Get in touch with criticaldata.ie, they will do a free analysis of the drive and tell you if they can get them back. It's expensive though.

    https://www.instagram.com/iammetaldave/



  • #6
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Look in your c: drive for a folder called windows.old, afaik your previous version of windows docs folder (inc pictures etc) are backed up here, this is provided you didnt format the xp partition when installing 7 (you just clicked use the hard drive listed and clicked next), if thats a no go its photorec time, just make sure to install anything onto a different hard drive, if you can download photorec onto a external drive & run if from there, as the more stuff written to the main hard drive the more chance of the photos been overwritten

    Nick

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