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Recovering lost JPEGs on hard drive
I have no idea how this happened but I lost a whole folder of
important irreplaceable pics. This happened a few weeks before on another folder in my My Pictures directory but luckily I had a backup on the VM copy. I don't remember ever consciously deleting them. A search for the files on Windows turns up nothing, but it also says my index isn't completely updated for all drives so it's really complicated. I have a backup of maybe 10% of the pics in that folder in seperate RARs that I sent to friends and forgot about, and I searched the entire drive with a hex editor for any trace of a hex string in one of the pics and it found multiple instances, all on free space that hasn't been overwritten yet. I can recover them this way even if it'll take forever but I have no idea how many bytes to select after the recognizable header, since all MFT records seem to be gone. How do I know how many KB a JPG is? Richter? Anyone got brighter ideas? |
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Recovering lost JPEGs on hard drive
Industrial One wrote:
I have no idea how this happened but I lost a whole folder of important irreplaceable pics. This happened a few weeks before on another folder in my My Pictures directory but luckily I had a backup on the VM copy. I don't remember ever consciously deleting them. A search for the files on Windows turns up nothing, but it also says my index isn't completely updated for all drives so it's really complicated. I have a backup of maybe 10% of the pics in that folder in seperate RARs that I sent to friends and forgot about, and I searched the entire drive with a hex editor for any trace of a hex string in one of the pics and it found multiple instances, all on free space that hasn't been overwritten yet. I can recover them this way even if it'll take forever but I have no idea how many bytes to select after the recognizable header, since all MFT records seem to be gone. How do I know how many KB a JPG is? Richter? Anyone got brighter ideas? I have not used this but it has been previously recommended on the photo ng's that I read: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec I have this one on my 7 machine. It works well: http://www.piriform.com/recuva |
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Recovering lost JPEGs on hard drive
Industrial One wrote:
I have no idea how this happened but I lost a whole folder of important irreplaceable pics. This happened a few weeks before on another folder in my My Pictures directory but luckily I had a backup on the VM copy. I don't remember ever consciously deleting them. A search for the files on Windows turns up nothing, but it also says my index isn't completely updated for all drives so it's really complicated. I have a backup of maybe 10% of the pics in that folder in seperate RARs that I sent to friends and forgot about, and I searched the entire drive with a hex editor for any trace of a hex string in one of the pics and it found multiple instances, all on free space that hasn't been overwritten yet. I can recover them this way even if it'll take forever but I have no idea how many bytes to select after the recognizable header, since all MFT records seem to be gone. How do I know how many KB a JPG is? Richter? Anyone got brighter ideas? There's this. But no guarantees on what it can find. While I did a simple minded test (erase a single picture, and search) and it found the picture just fine, it's hard to say what would be left, due to overwrites in the last few weeks. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec There are probably commercial versions of programs like that too, depending on your budget. Don't write the results, onto the same partition. Continue to treat the partition in question as "read-only" until you're finished. When the scavenging operation is completed (you've tried a few programs like that and nothing new is showing up), you can run CHKDSK and see if anything ends up in "FOUND.000" folder. I have a folder like that, created from unlinked stuff on my hard drive. If there is file system damage, that's one way for stuff to disappear. CHKDSK may notice some unlinked material, and re-link it into FOUND.000 at the top level, but without proper file names. Paul |
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Recovering lost JPEGs on hard drive
"Industrial One" wrote in message
... I have no idea how this happened but I lost a whole folder of important irreplaceable pics. This happened a few weeks before on another folder in my My Pictures directory but luckily I had a backup on the VM copy. I don't remember ever consciously deleting them. A search for the files on Windows turns up nothing, but it also says my index isn't completely updated for all drives so it's really complicated. I have a backup of maybe 10% of the pics in that folder in seperate RARs that I sent to friends and forgot about, and I searched the entire drive with a hex editor for any trace of a hex string in one of the pics and it found multiple instances, all on free space that hasn't been overwritten yet. I can recover them this way even if it'll take forever but I have no idea how many bytes to select after the recognizable header, since all MFT records seem to be gone. How do I know how many KB a JPG is? Richter? Anyone got brighter ideas? I've had good results recovering pictures and other files from hard drives and flash drives, using the freeware Restoration: http://aumha.org/freeware/freeware.php#restore Here's a direct link to the download: http://aumha.org/downloads/restoration.exe -- Glen Ventura MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 CompTIA A+ |
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Recovering lost JPEGs on hard drive
On Sep 2, 8:54*pm, "glee" wrote:
"Industrial One" wrote in message ... I have no idea how this happened but I lost a whole folder of important irreplaceable pics. This happened a few weeks before on another folder in my My Pictures directory but luckily I had a backup on the VM copy. I don't remember ever consciously deleting them. A search for the files on Windows turns up nothing, but it also says my index isn't completely updated for all drives so it's really complicated. I have a backup of maybe 10% of the pics in that folder in seperate RARs that I sent to friends and forgot about, and I searched the entire drive with a hex editor for any trace of a hex string in one of the pics and it found multiple instances, all on free space that hasn't been overwritten yet. I can recover them this way even if it'll take forever but I have no idea how many bytes to select after the recognizable header, since all MFT records seem to be gone. How do I know how many KB a JPG is? Richter? Anyone got brighter ideas? I've had good results recovering pictures and other files from hard drives and flash drives, using the freeware Restoration:http://aumha.org/freeware/freeware.php#restore Here's a direct link to the download:http://aumha.org/downloads/restoration.exe -- Glen Ventura MS MVP *Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 CompTIA A+ Seem to only get the WinXP version 193KB? The write up talks about Win98 version that's 406KB, but can't seem to find that anywhere. Or, are they the same now? |
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Recovering lost JPEGs on hard drive
Robert Macy wrote:
On Sep 2, 8:54 pm, "glee" wrote: "Industrial One" wrote in message ... I have no idea how this happened but I lost a whole folder of important irreplaceable pics. This happened a few weeks before on another folder in my My Pictures directory but luckily I had a backup on the VM copy. I don't remember ever consciously deleting them. A search for the files on Windows turns up nothing, but it also says my index isn't completely updated for all drives so it's really complicated. I have a backup of maybe 10% of the pics in that folder in seperate RARs that I sent to friends and forgot about, and I searched the entire drive with a hex editor for any trace of a hex string in one of the pics and it found multiple instances, all on free space that hasn't been overwritten yet. I can recover them this way even if it'll take forever but I have no idea how many bytes to select after the recognizable header, since all MFT records seem to be gone. How do I know how many KB a JPG is? Richter? Anyone got brighter ideas? I've had good results recovering pictures and other files from hard drives and flash drives, using the freeware Restoration:http://aumha.org/freeware/freeware.php#restore Here's a direct link to the download:http://aumha.org/downloads/restoration.exe -- Glen Ventura MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 CompTIA A+ Seem to only get the WinXP version 193KB? The write up talks about Win98 version that's 406KB, but can't seem to find that anywhere. Or, are they the same now? Download is LHA compressed. 197,233 bytes I don't like running .exe files, even from trusted sites, so I found an old copy of "lha.exe" to use, to extract the files. It's possible I got it from CTMC package, eons ago. Rename the original file, so it's 8.3 conformant. (That LHA program is pretty old.) Then lha e restor.exe That gives four files. 06/04/2002 02:53 PM 8,127 README.TXT 06/04/2002 02:59 PM 204,800 RESTORAT.EXE 03/21/2002 03:20 PM 204,849 DLL32.DLL 03/31/2002 10:35 AM 6,144 DLL16.DLL README.TXT says: ******* [Supported OS] Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP [Supported File System] FAT12/FAT16/FAT32/NTFS Compressed files of NTFS are supported. However, encrypted files of NTFS are not supported so far. ******* Presumably, the two DLLs account for the support of various OSes. Paul |
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