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Cody White

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I haven't been on for awhile because my laptop went haywire on me.
Just got it up and going again, I did lose most of my photo programs, and haven't installed the ones I have on disk. I also lost over 60+ GB of photos, so now I have to start all over again.
 
Alain Briot

Alain Briot

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Cody: Sorry to hear. However, here's an opportunity for a new year resolution:" back up all data regularly." It will happen again.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Cody White said:
I haven't been on for awhile because my laptop went haywire on me.
Just got it up and going again, I did lose most of my photo programs, and haven't installed the ones I have on disk. I also lost over 60+ GB of photos, so now I have to start all over again.
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What actually happened? Let's assume that the drive didn't crash. If so it's something we mere mortals can deal with. All one has to do is replace that hard drive work on the corrupt one.

If all you did is reformat, then the files are still there. If you went over the entire hard drive and inserted zeros and ones to cover over your tracks, then, yes it's all lost save for major forensic labs. So I think the chances are that all your files are really there. What software did you use to try to recover the images?

Asher
 
fahim mohammed

fahim mohammed

Well-known member
Sorry to hear about your mishap, Cody.

I hope you recover your photos and get your equipment operational.

Asher is on it!! There is hope!

Regards.
 
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Sandrine Bascouert

Member
There is always some solutions whenever you think all is over, even when you delete stuff on your HDD most of the time, nothing is deleted (How do you think government agencies do, huh?)

Once my husband saved our doctor's 1000's of images from a great travel in the reunon island (the travel of a lifetime) from a broken HDD (broken....really)

It took him few days in a row but it gained us some free osteopathic treatment!

Find yourself a good HDD recovery company around, I know it cost a lot.... It's up to you to see if it worth it...
 
Cem_Usakligil

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
Hi Cody,

Like others wrote, there may be still hope for your pictures. For the future: backup, backup, backup (like Alain said).

Most importantly, welcome back :).

Cheers,
 
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