Lost all my photos

[samm]

I was in the middle of taking my photos from a pc ,fixin to have them to transfer them to my macbook pro.I some how lost all my photos ,A decade of photos gone like that .Its a sad day for me today.Is there a way to retrieve photos from the hard drive of the pc if there still there?

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

Sorry man, this totally sucks and I feel your pain.

Look into Data Recovery options.

Also look into deep drive reads to see what is recoverable.

If you're uncomfortable with this type of thing, and are concerned about doing further damage (making the problem worse) I'd recommend taking it to a professional. Might be expensive, but there's simply no price to put on 10 years of photos.

Always backup, backup, backup.

 

[bunny99123]

Sowwy have you check trash? Now I don't feel so compulsive by burning mine. There a lot of intelligent people on here, so I hope someone can help you out.

 

[samm]

I guess ill end up taking the pc to a tech and see what they can do !

The trash is the first thing i went to ,not there .I think my dog got on top of my lap top and did something .Them weiner dogs any how .I only left it for a minute.he was sitting next to it .So i figured he had a guilty look.

 

[Compaq]

Holy crap, 10 years' worth of photos lost - just like that. I hope you are able to retrieve if not all, at least some of them.

I don't want to sound like a douche, but because of threads like these, I'm glad I started shooting film.

 

[im2c0ol]

I think it's recoverable if the drive still works an able to detect by the computer. A software Data Recovery level would get it back. If not a comercial level woulf get it back but it aint cheap. I used to work in the IT dept and we use GetDataBack software. Very amazing software that one customer format his drive and we still able to get it back.

 

[ClickAddict]

Don't use your PC until you try to get it recovered. imagine all your photos are a bunch of 1s and zeros on your Hard drive. When you do a delete, the Pc does not turn them all to 0 or 1 it simply changes the index pointing to that location on your drive thus not showing up in your directory searches. If you don't do any more to the PC a data recovery (image recovery) utility scans the unindexed area for files. If you start copying stuff onto your drive though, you may end up writing over those locations and thus making them non retrievable.

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

Don't use your PC until you try to get it recovered. imagine all your photos are a bunch of 1s and zeros on your Hard drive. When you do a delete, the Pc does not turn them all to 0 or 1 it simply changes the index pointing to that location on your drive thus not showing up in your directory searches. If you don't do any more to the PC a data recovery (image recovery) utility scans the unindexed area for files. If you start copying stuff onto your drive though, you may end up writing over those locations and thus making them non retrievable.

This.

 

[im2c0ol]

Don't use your PC until you try to get it recovered. imagine all your photos are a bunch of 1s and zeros on your Hard drive. When you do a delete, the Pc does not turn them all to 0 or 1 it simply changes the index pointing to that location on your drive thus not showing up in your directory searches. If you don't do any more to the PC a data recovery (image recovery) utility scans the unindexed area for files. If you start copying stuff onto your drive though, you may end up writing over those locations and thus making them non retrievable.

Right! Stop using the drive, unplug it and have some one do a data recovery. I would try go to Fry's Electronic have them do it.

 

[ratssass]

Don't use your PC until you try to get it recovered. imagine all your photos are a bunch of 1s and zeros on your Hard drive. When you do a delete, the Pc does not turn them all to 0 or 1 it simply changes the index pointing to that location on your drive thus not showing up in your directory searches. If you don't do any more to the PC a data recovery (image recovery) utility scans the unindexed area for files. If you start copying stuff onto your drive though, you may end up writing over those locations and thus making them non retrievable.

...i too learned the hard way to regularly back up my stuff.Fortunately, I was able to recover everything (I think).Many here use redundant back-up methods.I,myself,burn my stuff to DVD on a monthly basis,now.That might not be the best method,but it is what I do.

 

[Ilovemycam]

I lost all my work from the late 70's to 2000's in a flood and from moves. Now I have many back ups and off site as well. I wrote a chapter about digital preservation in my book... Good luck.

 

[sm4him]

I agree with the others--should be recoverable unless you kept copying stuff from your PC. Even then, it's very possibly recoverable. I've recovered files from "dead" external drives, "bad" sd cards, and even one laptop drive that I...uh..kinda sorta RAN OVER with my car. :lmao:

Why on earth would you have an entire decades' worth of photos on ONE computer though? It's already been said, but it bears repeating--Backup, backup, backup!!

 

[skieur]

I used a Data Recovery service and they recovered data from a dead hard drive that would not even run at the proper speed. I did not find the price overly expensive.

 

[samm]

I had a dedicated computer for my photos .Nothing else but photos.Wasnt never even hooked up to internet,
I will start backing my photos up from now on .

 

[KenC]

one laptop drive that I...uh..kinda sorta RAN OVER with my car. :lmao:

Wait, not so fast - there's gotta be a great story in there!