Silly Mistake - loss of pics

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had the opportunity of taking some shots of a barn owl last wednesday. got them home and uploaded them to my laptop.

fast forward to today, when i decide its a good idea to put xp pro onto the laptop, instead of home that it came with. i put the owl photos into a folder on my desktop ready to write to cd, just as i get distracted to do something else, i come back to the laptop and stick in the xp cd and reboot

realising my mistake half way through installing fresh copy of pro

now the thing is, i formatted the mem card using the camera after i uploaded the pics.

is there anyway that any knows of to retrieve the pics either from the laptop or the memory card?

any help would be much appreiated.

cheers

EDIT - i should mention i have taken another set of pics with the card yesterday

 

[antc]

Take a look here

right, this is now running on the mem card

really hope it works as i had some great shots

will update the thread on how this pans out

cheers

 

[antc]

so far so good, 20% of the way through scanning my 2gb compact flash card its found 141 files

 

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recovered 508 files from the card, some going back 3 or 4 formats ago, none of them were my owl shots

im running it on my laptop hdd at the mo, although its taking ages tbh

hasnt found any owl shots as yet

EDIT - got a horrible feeling i have written over the owl shots with what i took yesterday