greenguava Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Its a HP pc with windows xp pro on it. It had a error not allowing it to log in, even from safe mode... it had not been wiped in years, so i figured id redo the pc since all the data had been removed already. Come to find out the family photos were still on it. I used the HP recovery program to reinstall windows, and I have done all the windows updates. What chance do I have? Thanks... I feel sick right about now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FUZi0N Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 I did this a LOOOONG time ago but with files instead of pictures. You'll have two choices, try to recover the data yourself with a "data recovery program" (ahem google) or other resources. Second there are places that will do data recovery for you. I think Best Buy Geek Squad can do it, if not they'll be able to point you in the right direction over the phone. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamikaze_Badger Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 There's several free options in the form of Boot CDs, two of them are Ultimate Boot CD and Emergency Boot CD. Burn the images to a disk as an image (most free burners will be able to do that) and boot from the CD-ROM drive. Otherwise there are some costly programs you can buy, or if worse comes to worse, send the drive in to a data recovery place. You will pay through the nose if you take the last option, but I know one guy who lost his entire family photo collection (including scanned photos), he said it was worth it. I think he payed about $800 for a few gigabytes. I wish you luck. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercuryDoun Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 There is a free program called Recuva that works REALLY well, especially being that its free. Here is a link to download it: http://www.piriform.com/recuva Its a pretty simple program you should be able to figure it out. Doubt it will find everything. But in my experience with Recuva its found 90% or more of the deleted data. But again every situation is different, best of luck! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexandre Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 There is a free program called Recuva that works REALLY well, especially being that its free. Here is a link to download it: http://www.piriform.com/recuva Its a pretty simple program you should be able to figure it out. Doubt it will find everything. But in my experience with Recuva its found 90% or more of the deleted data. But again every situation is different, best of luck! Awesome program. Hopefully you haven't overwritten you photos with the new install.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragsman Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 RecoverMyFiles.. It's paid.. or keygens exists.. I hate ppl who doesnt make backup.. so you need to fix / reinstall the SO and make backup of years of trash they have!!!!!!! and they don't even know what they want to backup.. (dunno if I am allowed to say what I said) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanTheGamer11 Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Well your chances are small if you wrote something on the hdd you formatted but I wish you luck... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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