lost 14yrs worth of photos
Jul 7th 2010, 5:45 am
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IT bloke @ hubbies work reformatted our comp and has now lost all our photos,am gutted to say the least.
It has all the kids baby photos on it that i cant replace.I know the moral of the story is to back everything up and i was in the process of doing this.
Any suggestions,pleeeeaseee
It has all the kids baby photos on it that i cant replace.I know the moral of the story is to back everything up and i was in the process of doing this.
Any suggestions,pleeeeaseee
Jul 7th 2010, 5:48 am
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Re: lost 14yrs worth of photos
IT bloke @ hubbies work reformatted our comp and has now lost all our photos,am gutted to say the least.
It has all the kids baby photos on it that i cant replace.I know the moral of the story is to back everything up and i was in the process of doing this.
Any suggestions,pleeeeaseee
It has all the kids baby photos on it that i cant replace.I know the moral of the story is to back everything up and i was in the process of doing this.
Any suggestions,pleeeeaseee
Actually.. check this out. http://www.recovermyfiles.com/unformat.php
Jul 7th 2010, 5:51 am
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not sure what he did,am waiting to find out exactly.He ended up giving us a new harddrive but i have the old one here.He reckoned he worked on it all weekend trying to get them back!
Jul 7th 2010, 5:54 am
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Have you written any new files to the disk since it was formatted?
Actually.. check this out. http://www.recovermyfiles.com/unformat.php
Actually.. check this out. http://www.recovermyfiles.com/unformat.php
Jul 7th 2010, 5:54 am
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The link I posted is to some software I've seen used in the past and it did get back access to *some* files. It's about your only option now by the sound of it.
The moral of the story by the way, especially for pictures, is store them somewhere online in places like Photobucket... and make sure you store them in two places if they are really important to you.
Jul 7th 2010, 5:56 am
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Well unless he really knew what he was doing then that probably made it worse.. sorry, not what you wanted to hear.
The link I posted is to some software I've seen used in the past and it did get back access to *some* files. It's about your only option now by the sound of it.
The moral of the story by the way, especially for pictures, is store them somewhere online in places like Photobucket... and make sure you store them in two places if they are really important to you.
The link I posted is to some software I've seen used in the past and it did get back access to *some* files. It's about your only option now by the sound of it.
The moral of the story by the way, especially for pictures, is store them somewhere online in places like Photobucket... and make sure you store them in two places if they are really important to you.
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Jul 7th 2010, 6:00 am
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And you didn't happen to have them on a photo cd or something? Just straight to your hard drive?
www.flickr.com is good for photo storage. Better imo than PB.
If you don't have backup and can't recover, then you'll have to kiss them goodbye, Donna, sorry to say.
Did you email any out to people? Perhaps people can mail you them back? Amazing what pics people keep.
www.flickr.com is good for photo storage. Better imo than PB.
If you don't have backup and can't recover, then you'll have to kiss them goodbye, Donna, sorry to say.
Did you email any out to people? Perhaps people can mail you them back? Amazing what pics people keep.
Jul 7th 2010, 6:02 am
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And you didn't happen to have them on a photo cd or something? Just straight to your hard drive?
www.flickr.com is good for photo storage. Better imo than PB.
If you don't have backup and can't recover, then you'll have to kiss them goodbye, Donna, sorry to say.
Did you email any out to people? Perhaps people can mail you them back? Amazing what pics people keep.
www.flickr.com is good for photo storage. Better imo than PB.
If you don't have backup and can't recover, then you'll have to kiss them goodbye, Donna, sorry to say.
Did you email any out to people? Perhaps people can mail you them back? Amazing what pics people keep.
Jul 7th 2010, 6:15 am
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Re: lost 14yrs worth of photos
IT bloke @ hubbies work reformatted our comp and has now lost all our photos,am gutted to say the least.
It has all the kids baby photos on it that i cant replace.I know the moral of the story is to back everything up and i was in the process of doing this.
Any suggestions,pleeeeaseee
It has all the kids baby photos on it that i cant replace.I know the moral of the story is to back everything up and i was in the process of doing this.
Any suggestions,pleeeeaseee
) and replaced the hard drive all for $200, it took them about 4 days to get all my files off the broken one, they said it was pretty knackered... but it might be worth you taking it to someone else? They might be able to do something the guy from your hubbies work can't? This reminds me... I really need to back my files up... most are on facebook though... are yours? You could get them off there?
Jul 7th 2010, 6:20 am
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only have a few on FB,eldest is fourteen and weve pretty much had digital since then so no hard copies either.Nobody has my kids baby photos
Jul 7th 2010, 6:21 am
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Really sorry to hear this but as you now know the moral is to back-up before doing anything to a computer. However, I would have thought if he was an IT person he would have said this to you before starting or at least have brought an external hard-drive round to dump the stuff onto. It's drummed into IT people to back-up, back-up, back-up!
There are companies who can retrieve stuff from hard-drives which have had all sorts done to them (they're called forensic data companies and work for the police etc) but I guess this would be very expensive.
As the OP said, your Mum's and rellies must have pics of the kids which can fill in your gaps.
All our print photos are still in the UK in a friends loft as we couldn't bear to ship them twice if we didn't stay! However, I now want them here as it's part of our history but it would be costly to ship them alone and I didn't have time to start scanning them whilst I was back. Something I need to sort out next visit!
Hope you can retrieve some of them!
There are companies who can retrieve stuff from hard-drives which have had all sorts done to them (they're called forensic data companies and work for the police etc) but I guess this would be very expensive.
As the OP said, your Mum's and rellies must have pics of the kids which can fill in your gaps.
All our print photos are still in the UK in a friends loft as we couldn't bear to ship them twice if we didn't stay! However, I now want them here as it's part of our history but it would be costly to ship them alone and I didn't have time to start scanning them whilst I was back. Something I need to sort out next visit!
Hope you can retrieve some of them!
Jul 7th 2010, 6:22 am
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And you didn't happen to have them on a photo cd or something? Just straight to your hard drive?
www.flickr.com is good for photo storage. Better imo than PB.
If you don't have backup and can't recover, then you'll have to kiss them goodbye, Donna, sorry to say.
Did you email any out to people? Perhaps people can mail you them back? Amazing what pics people keep.
www.flickr.com is good for photo storage. Better imo than PB.
If you don't have backup and can't recover, then you'll have to kiss them goodbye, Donna, sorry to say.
Did you email any out to people? Perhaps people can mail you them back? Amazing what pics people keep.
Jul 7th 2010, 6:25 am
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will look into the forensic people,dont care about the cost,will pay what it takes to get them back if at all poss
Jul 7th 2010, 6:25 am
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My hard drive died a few weeks ago and I never backed anything up, I took it to a specialist IT repair shop and they recovered all my photos () and replaced the hard drive all for $200, it took them about 4 days to get all my files off the broken one, they said it was pretty knackered... but it might be worth you taking it to someone else? They might be able to do something the guy from your hubbies work can't?
This reminds me... I really need to back my files up... most are on facebook though... are yours? You could get them off there?
) and replaced the hard drive all for $200, it took them about 4 days to get all my files off the broken one, they said it was pretty knackered... but it might be worth you taking it to someone else? They might be able to do something the guy from your hubbies work can't? This reminds me... I really need to back my files up... most are on facebook though... are yours? You could get them off there?
It's usually easier to get files off a broken disk than a formatted one... and the more you write to the newly formatted disk the less chance you have of recovering anything off it.