XP Laptop recovery program.

Akatsukii · 02-18-2007, 09:07 PM

When i first got my laptop, i made a recovery disc using XP to restore the laptop back to its current settings.

Over the past few months, i saved loads of pictures from my digital camera onto the laptop.

Last week my laptop went dead and i used the recovery disc forgetting to backup my pictures =( is there anyway i can get them back?!

crazijoe · 02-19-2007, 05:50 AM

Hello and welcome to TSF.

First thing you need to do is not use the laptop at all. Any further use can make more data unrecoverable because it will write over sectors that are flagged empty but are not.
You will need to remove the drive from the laptop and slave it to another machine. You will then need to run a data recovery program to retrive the data from the drive.
http://www.techsupportforum.com/hard...softwares.html

Akatsukii · 02-19-2007, 03:44 PM

Hi, thanks alot for your help.

I have managed to salvage 1/3 of my photos.
I also got a bunch of 'corrupted' jpeg files.
Are there any ways to restore these jpeg back?

Once again, much appreciate your help.

Barnsey · 02-21-2007, 09:01 AM

try scanning the jpeg files with an anti virus (sorry about the response i dont know to mutch about computers :)

jro · 02-21-2007, 01:23 PM

Another option that I have had some success with is booting into the computer with a live distribution of Linux from the CD Drive. I have used Mepis to retrieve photos on my wife's computer and save them to an external drive.

The nice thing about this trick, is the Linux OS runs from the disk and uses your RAM but leaves you hard drive alone. You can find more information about Mepis at

Code:

http://www.mepis.org/

Good luck!

02-18-2007, 09:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
Akatsukii Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 2 OS: WinXP	XP Laptop recovery program. When i first got my laptop, i made a recovery disc using XP to restore the laptop back to its current settings. Over the past few months, i saved loads of pictures from my digital camera onto the laptop. Last week my laptop went dead and i used the recovery disc forgetting to backup my pictures =( is there anyway i can get them back?!

02-19-2007, 05:50 AM	#2 (permalink)
crazijoe Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Omaha, The Center of the Universe Posts: 7,632 OS: WinXP, Win2K3 My System	Hello and welcome to TSF. First thing you need to do is not use the laptop at all. Any further use can make more data unrecoverable because it will write over sectors that are flagged empty but are not. You will need to remove the drive from the laptop and slave it to another machine. You will then need to run a data recovery program to retrive the data from the drive. http://www.techsupportforum.com/hard...softwares.html __________________ Microsoft MCSA + Messaging, MVP, A+, Network+ http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3...other/Help.jpg Do you want a real Republican? HDD diagnostic tools / HDD data recovery software

02-21-2007, 01:23 PM	#5 (permalink)
jro Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 53 OS: xp	Another option that I have had some success with is booting into the computer with a live distribution of Linux from the CD Drive. I have used Mepis to retrieve photos on my wife's computer and save them to an external drive. The nice thing about this trick, is the Linux OS runs from the disk and uses your RAM but leaves you hard drive alone. You can find more information about Mepis at Code: http://www.mepis.org/ Good luck!

02-19-2007, 03:44 PM	#3 (permalink)
Akatsukii Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 2 OS: WinXP	Hi, thanks alot for your help. I have managed to salvage 1/3 of my photos. I also got a bunch of 'corrupted' jpeg files. Are there any ways to restore these jpeg back? Once again, much appreciate your help.

02-21-2007, 09:01 AM	#4 (permalink)
Barnsey Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Liverpool Posts: 39 OS: Windows XP Pro SP2	try scanning the jpeg files with an anti virus (sorry about the response i dont know to mutch about computers :)