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CYHSN

Reformatted my laptop and I've done the scan and found the files and they are listed with the proper file types and the exact same file size's as well. The problem though is that after I save them to another drive, there doesn't seem to be anything in them, the avi's won't play using vlc or the jpgs won't open because they are not supported, have no clue why.

Can anybody help me out here?

yoyo

CYHSN wrote: »

Reformatted my laptop and I've done the scan and found the files and they are listed with the proper file types and the exact same file size's as well. The problem though is that after I save them to another drive, there doesn't seem to be anything in them, the avi's won't play using vlc or the jpgs won't open because they are not supported, have no clue why.

Can anybody help me out here?

You want to recover files from a formatted laptop as the backup you made didn't work?
You are probably lucky. Stop using the machine you formatted immediately and remove the hard drive, the more Windows writes to the drive, the more chance of data being overwritten.
You can remove the hard drive from the machine and put it into another to copy the files off it, You can use something like PhotoREC or Recuva to do this. Remember to never recover your files onto the drive your recovering from obviously, as this will overwrite the data on the drive and corrupt more files possibly. If its a big drive and you've only just formatted there is a good chance of being able to recover most files

Nick

CYHSN

Thanks Nick, I had no backups as laptop just stopped loading on startup from an update I installed, tried repairing using CD but no success so I reformatted, anyway thanks for the help.

yoyo

CYHSN wrote: »

Thanks Nick, I had no backups as laptop just stopped loading on startup from an update I installed, tried repairing using CD but no success so I reformatted, anyway thanks for the help.

So you need to get the files off it? If the laptop is fairly recent it will use SATA as the interface for the harddrive (5-6 years~+) so you can just take out the drive, plug it in to a desktop computer and use the tools I mentioned above to recover, formatting Windows when a botched update happened and can't repair may have corrupted some of the files, but fingers crossed most may be ok

Nick