recovering deleted files - urgent.

ProxsiGeek · 02-08-2007, 04:58 PM

UH - OH

Sorry if i maybe made a unattractive title. but i have backed up somewhere along the lines of 5,000 pictures from hdd to cd and now the cd's seem to be damaged. the files i removed are deleted from the computer from the recycle bin...

now i understand that it is possible to recover these files somehow. it has been about 1 to 1 1/2 months since the delete and i need to be able to recover these pictures for an insurance company. i have read some pages on how to acheive this but none are very informative.

does anyone know a way i can recover these files? any tutorials would be awsome, im kinda in a rush as well. i have around an hour until the bell tolls me so any help would be fantastic.

also this was on win XP home edition.

Chevy · 02-08-2007, 07:00 PM

This seems to have some good reviews (for getting data off the CD's).

i can almost guarantee you won't recover everything fom the hard drive. However, if you need to try (the above doesn't work), then try out Active@ ... I've had good luck with it.

ProxsiGeek · 02-08-2007, 10:13 PM

thank you for the advice, i found active and it seems to do the sort of thing i want, good thing i get till tomorro till i have to try the recovery

once again thanks for your suggestions and help.

**nickster_uk** · 02-08-2007, 10:17 PM

IsoBuster is the best cd recovery program I have used....I haven't had to use it much but every time I have, it's given me 100% success rates.

I second Chevy's opinion on the hard drive data recovery as it has been so long since you deleted the files so the space they were occupying on the drive has been overwritten many times by files you have deleted since. You may find the file names but they will very likely be corrupt.

02-08-2007, 04:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
ProxsiGeek Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 2 OS: Windows XP	recovering deleted files - urgent. UH - OH Sorry if i maybe made a unattractive title. but i have backed up somewhere along the lines of 5,000 pictures from hdd to cd and now the cd's seem to be damaged. the files i removed are deleted from the computer from the recycle bin... now i understand that it is possible to recover these files somehow. it has been about 1 to 1 1/2 months since the delete and i need to be able to recover these pictures for an insurance company. i have read some pages on how to acheive this but none are very informative. does anyone know a way i can recover these files? any tutorials would be awsome, im kinda in a rush as well. i have around an hour until the bell tolls me so any help would be fantastic. also this was on win XP home edition. Last edited by ProxsiGeek : 02-08-2007 at 05:01 PM.

02-08-2007, 07:00 PM	#2 (permalink)
Chevy Semi-Retired Manager, Microsoft Support Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Notlob Posts: 5,183 OS: Vista Ultimate My System	This seems to have some good reviews (for getting data off the CD's). i can almost guarantee you won't recover everything fom the hard drive. However, if you need to try (the above doesn't work), then try out Active@ ... I've had good luck with it. __________________ “The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. ” - Robert Bloch

02-08-2007, 10:13 PM	#3 (permalink)
ProxsiGeek Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 2 OS: Windows XP	Ok! thank you for the advice, i found active and it seems to do the sort of thing i want, good thing i get till tomorro till i have to try the recovery once again thanks for your suggestions and help.

02-08-2007, 10:17 PM	#4 (permalink)
nickster_uk Moderator, Microsoft Support, Happy to support TSF! Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 6,565 OS: XP Pro SP3, Vista Ultimate SP1, Ubuntu v8.04 My System	IsoBuster is the best cd recovery program I have used....I haven't had to use it much but every time I have, it's given me 100% success rates. I second Chevy's opinion on the hard drive data recovery as it has been so long since you deleted the files so the space they were occupying on the drive has been overwritten many times by files you have deleted since. You may find the file names but they will very likely be corrupt. __________________ My system: ASUS P5K-E WiFi \| Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz (OC 3.60GHz) \| 2GB Corsair DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 RAM (4-4-4-12) \| PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 3850 Pro Xtreme 512MB GDDR3 GPU \| 1xMaxtor DiamondMax 22 500GB & 4xMaxtor DiamondMax 21 250GB SATA HDDs \| Zalman CNPS9500 Heatsink + 6 LED Case Fans \| Corsair HX620W Modular PSU \| Enermax Black Knight (CS-527) Case \| Pioneer DVR-216 SATA 20x20 DVD±RW In a world without walls or fences - who needs Windows and Gates?