Computer geek needed urgently please!

[Bon]

Would a system restore work? (if it's been enabled).

No. System restore does not modify personal files.

 

[Marvin22]

Don't panic. Do you have a spare drive you could install windows to? If yes unplug your current drive and plug the spare drive in instead. Install windows then plug your old drive in as a slave drive then boot the pc and install easy recovery pro, do a raw scan of the old drive which should now be the secondary drive. Hopefully you'll have a pile of files to wade through which will include the files you need.

Remember you can recover files from pc's that have had windows installed over the old info.
Are you based in the north at all, I'd be happy to help, we women need to stick together .

BTW I always Ghost a drive before trying to recover data, this way you can always revwert back to the original state and try again.

 

[balf]

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if using recovery programs you NEVER install it to the drive that your recovering from. Odds are while youve been tyring all these programs and doing it incorrectly that youve already overwritten the file. Which, no one in this thread or links mentioned. Another reason why people who have no f*cking idea what they're on about shouldn't offer PC advice on a forum.

Sorry Bon, I had mine on a flash drive too, total brain funk

 

[Raffles]

...If your stuff is very important - turn off your PC by pulling the plug and take it to a data recovery place...

Like I've said.

 

[Codiak]

I second Bon should never be installed to the same drive, try this useful and also free

http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1

one other point, never "defrag" your drive prior to a recovery as these deleted files will be wiped from the file tables on the drive and will never show in recovery software.

 

[Lemon]

OMG lol... Marvin was that in english? lol, i daren't try that it sounds too complicated

Not north but midlands, how far away are you from Coventry?

I have tried system restore, was the first thing i did and as Bon says it didn't touch the files


thanks for the defrag tip, i'm sure i would have tried that at some stage lol

 

[M 818]

Do a system restore to when you had the files do this by:Start, Help and Support,Pick a task:Undo changes to your computer with System Restore, Restore my
computer to an earlier time and then let it restart and stuff hopefully you will have your files back.

Oh whoops see you have already done that my bad.

 

[Cook$]

Swear at it, and press the keys really hard.

 

[Robeenio]

sorry lemon,

Bon is right.

when it comes to recovery software you need to either run it froma flash drive or another drive from the one yo uwant to recover data from.

get data back pro

and easy recovery are quite good.

but it maybe that you have already overwritten the segments where the data was stored.

if it was that important then i suggest taking to a specialist who will take great pleasure in doing naughty things with your wallet.

 

[Lemon]

lol, i did that too cooks, and threw my calculator at the wall (which knocked some plaster off )

And yes Rob, that's what i'm worried about, i have already crashed my car this week and have a £400 excess to pay

I guess i'll try the external hard drive thing and have a look at those ones, i haven't tried them yet lol

Many thanks all xxx