HELP...HAD A DISASTER

Griff7520 · 17 Jun 2019 at 20:45

Any one suggest a data recovery software, I have lost every photo, music file document...everything. They were on a secondary drive but when I did a system reset on my system drive it has wiped evey drive on my pc....gutted at the minute...any help much appreciated

Griff7520 · 17 Jun 2019 at 22:44

thanks for the help guys....I am getting them back....but its going to take a while...maybe a long night

Griff7520 · 18 Jun 2019 at 01:33

well got all my pictures and music back and my documents so much relieved now....used a prog called Puran file recovery which is working quite well......

Griff7520 · 18 Jun 2019 at 12:17

well my files were backed up on 2 hard drives on my pc...but what happened yesterday was I installed a new motherboard and instead of doing a complete reinstall of windows I did a reset via windows...it asked me if I wanted to do just a clean install on c windows drive but when I said yes and let it run it actually formatted all my drives so when it finished and I looked at my drives and saw them all empty I was gutted....should have unplugged my secondary drives and just left the m.2 system drive plugged in....I don't know how it happened I was sure I pressed the correct options when starting the reset but obviously not....still live and learn....just glad I got all my photos back....got to be 20 years worth of memories there.

Griff7520 · 18 Jun 2019 at 17:42

AHarvey said:
For photos and video I have them auto backup to google drive as well, nice easy unlimited cloud storage

thought you was limited to so much space or do you pay for more

Griff7520 · 24 Jun 2019 at 19:34

Semple said:
Not to make a dig at you, but that's not a backup!!

It might be stored on a secondary drive, but what if your PC was stolen, or had caught fire, or house had flooded. Along goes your backup.

Backups need to be offsite or on the cloud.

point taken