Just lost few hundreds of pics :(

Tomi · Post by **Tomi** » Sun Oct 29, 2017 12:20 am

I am about to clean my old laptop because I have found another purpose for it. During the cleaning somehow disappeared a content of almost a whole folder with 200-300 pics, maninly not released party pics I have found in the past, and few videos as well. Strangely the files are not in the recycle bin, so practically nowhere!

I am quite pissed now...

ShoeplayJ · Post by **ShoeplayJ** » Sun Oct 29, 2017 7:51 am

What OS are you using?

paradigm88 · Post by **paradigm88** » Sun Oct 29, 2017 1:13 pm

I'm sorry. I'm contending with a similar issue - about 3 months ago my PC acted a bit sluggish for a week and then reported a SMART failure on the boot drive. I can get the drive to show up on my new PC (it was time to upgrade frankly), but I can't access any files because the drive reports a "fatal hardware error." Every recovery program I throw at it is fruitless. My guess is something's shot on the drive's own mainboard, but the platters are probably still intact.

Fortunately I can re-claim some of my video collection through YouTube, but there's a lot of stuff (the shopping channel footage, especially, and all my downloaded photos) that's locked up in there now. And I'm afraid to send the drive off for data recovery: (1) it's quite expensive and (2) a little part of me is paranoid that they'd start looking through files and object to a folder of foot-fetish images (or, worse, think some are underage).

Backups are something I take seriously at work, but always sort of brushed off at home...of course, I'm used to having a little warning before a failure anyway!

If you're using a Windows PC, download a copy of Hiren's BootCD and try some of the file-recovery software they have; it might be able to find trashed files and "undelete" them. Maybe.

llama · Post by **llama** » Sun Oct 29, 2017 6:21 pm

This happened to me..With my very first laptop, i was clueless about memory storage and external hard drives and actually used up all my memory on the laptop with DL stuff and the laptop stopped working because it was "full". A acquaintance online helped me to restore the computer, but in doing so I lost about 95% of the videos and pics I had stored. I have learned my lesson and now, every first of the month, I transfer all my stuff to an external hard drive

ShoeplayJ · Post by **ShoeplayJ** » Mon Oct 30, 2017 12:02 am

paradigm88 wrote:And I'm afraid to send the drive off for data recovery: (1) it's quite expensive and (2) a little part of me is paranoid that they'd start looking through files and object to a folder of foot-fetish images (or, worse, think some are underage).

Exactly my problem, my friend. Exactly my problem. I've got at least two harddrives that need their data recovered, but I've not gotten them serviced for the exact reasons you mentioned. It costs more money than what I can realistically spend, and people can be so on-edge about this fetish stuff, and automatically assume the worst without having all of the facts. The worst part is that these drives are from a long time ago (one of them conked around 2005), so I don't know exactly how "bit rot" works, or if that's set in, even though the drives haven't been fired up in some time.