Help - Programme to Recover Lost Folders/Files

[joroma]

Accidentally deleted a whole 18 months worth of photos stored in two folders. I've done a System Restore and the photo folders and sub folders have reappeared but no files are in them. Checked the recycle bin and the photos are not in there either.

I did try running a programme I downloaded, PCI (PC Inspector I think) left it on all night and it recovered individual photos but it took hours to recover about 100 photos none of which were the ones I need. Is there a programme which will scan my drive for deleted folders/files then allow me to select which ones I want it to recover? Or is there another way of recovering the pictures?

Any help much appreciated!!

 

[joroma]

The files were on my remote back up drive so hopefully they won't be too affected as the OS etc is on a seperate physical drive.
I was hoping there might be a freeware programme that could scan for deleted files and list them so that I could choose which ones to restore?? PC Inspector restores and renames all the files it finds!

 

[joroma]

Thanks for your help guys. Finally used a program called Recuva. Absolutely brilliant. Found all deleted .jpg files in a couple of minutes listed by folder so I was easily able to recover the lost photos. A dozen or so on one drive were unrecoverable but did a "deep" scan of another drive that I had stored the photos on previously and it found them all! Highly recommended bit of freeware.