File loss and recovery.

Brains · 21 Dec 2006 at 10:35

I was copying/cutting (suppose to be copying, may have clicked cut) 37gb worth of files, music, videos, pictures etc. from my desktop to a portable hdd, and it stopped half way through with an error, i think it was to do with media player being open and renaming recently added files, either way, only 19gb made it to the hdd, and the same 19gb was left on my dektop! :mad:

So i downloaded PC INSPECTOR FILE RECOVERY and tried that and it found most of the files, but after saving them back to my computer, none of them will open, does anyone have any advice about how i can get my files back, many thanks.

A system restore is not an option as windows has only recently been loaded and there are not any restore points yet.

Brains · 21 Dec 2006 at 16:05

Any takers?

bledd · 21 Dec 2006 at 16:16

stop using the computer and use a different one (borrow one if you have to)

put the hard drive in new computer and use a data recovery tool from there

file scavenger 3 is awesome..

Brains · 21 Dec 2006 at 16:25

bledd. said:
stop using the computer and use a different one (borrow one if you have to)

put the hard drive in new computer and use a data recovery tool from there

file scavenger 3 is awesome..

Why a different computer? Why not just use this one and a caddy?

Any freeware?

bledd · 21 Dec 2006 at 17:58

if its your c drive (i'm assuming it is becuase you said from desktop)

then any hard drive activity reduces the chances of recovering files (because they get overwritten once they're deleted)

here's a freeware alternative (there are loads more)

http://www.roadkil.net/undelete.html

Brains · 21 Dec 2006 at 18:18

bledd. said:
if its your c drive (i'm assuming it is becuase you said from desktop)

then any hard drive activity reduces the chances of recovering files (because they get overwritten once they're deleted)

here's a freeware alternative (there are loads more)

http://www.roadkil.net/undelete.html

Well i could use the undelete function on my portable hdd aswell.

bledd · 21 Dec 2006 at 20:39

Brains said:
only 19gb made it to the hdd

your own words!

can't recover something that hasn't copied across

Brains · 22 Dec 2006 at 11:58

The old copy of my stuff which was being overwritten on the portable hdd, if i could recover that it would be almost as good.