Help....Had to reformat hard drive and lost all pictures!

jerriew · 10-13-2008, 12:18 PM

Hi:

I hope someone can help me with this problem! I had a major virus and the only way to get rid of it was to reformat my hard drive and start over. Unfortunately, I lost some extremely important pictures from my sons wedding that I need desperately to get back. Does anyone know of a program that retrieve pictures from a formatted hard drive? I have tried retrieving them from a memory card but that was also formatted back in July after the pictures were removed. I think I used cardrecovery but it did not work. Thanks for any information you can supply!
Sincerely
Jerrie W

Nicole Aponc · 10-13-2008, 12:52 PM

I'm sorry, but formatting your hard drive isn't like deleting a file. There are no remnants left. All the pictures you lost are unrecoverable.

Firebgre · 10-13-2008, 01:19 PM

if you reformatted then reinstalled your operating system right after that then your pictures are gone. However, if you just reformatted and have yet to write anything to the drive there is hope!

I use R-Studio to recover deleted files from reformats or accidental deletion.

http://www.r-studio.com/#local

Rstudio NTFS will do the trick. It costs $50, not bad at all.

dai · 10-13-2008, 01:42 PM

see what you can see with these
http://www.undeleteunerase.com/
Have you "lost" a hard drive, partition or files in your computer?

10-13-2008, 12:18 PM	#1 (permalink)
jerriew Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP	Help....Had to reformat hard drive and lost all pictures! Hi: I hope someone can help me with this problem! I had a major virus and the only way to get rid of it was to reformat my hard drive and start over. Unfortunately, I lost some extremely important pictures from my sons wedding that I need desperately to get back. Does anyone know of a program that retrieve pictures from a formatted hard drive? I have tried retrieving them from a memory card but that was also formatted back in July after the pictures were removed. I think I used cardrecovery but it did not work. Thanks for any information you can supply! Sincerely Jerrie W

10-13-2008, 12:52 PM	#2 (permalink)
Nicole Aponc Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 19 OS: XP	Re: Help....Had to reformat hard drive and lost all pictures! I'm sorry, but formatting your hard drive isn't like deleting a file. There are no remnants left. All the pictures you lost are unrecoverable.

10-13-2008, 01:19 PM	#3 (permalink)
Firebgre Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: The South Posts: 10 OS: Xp 64	Re: Help....Had to reformat hard drive and lost all pictures! if you reformatted then reinstalled your operating system right after that then your pictures are gone. However, if you just reformatted and have yet to write anything to the drive there is hope! I use R-Studio to recover deleted files from reformats or accidental deletion. http://www.r-studio.com/#local Rstudio NTFS will do the trick. It costs $50, not bad at all.

10-13-2008, 01:42 PM	#4 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,678 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: Help....Had to reformat hard drive and lost all pictures! see what you can see with these http://www.undeleteunerase.com/ Have you "lost" a hard drive, partition or files in your computer? __________________