Retrieving lost pictures???
Awhile back my laptop took a******and I had to do a system restore and in the process I lost alot of pictures. As I understand the pictures are still on the hard drive. Does anyone know of a way to get them back?
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- Just an idea, but why don't you check with the state police forensic unit or a larger metro police dept. I ran the forensic unit at our PD for several years and we had techs that could recover images (porn and child porn as well as business records on financial cases) I don't think they would do it officially, but they may have a tech that works off duty doing this kind of thing. Not sure the files have been overwritten but may have been petitioned on the HD and are no longer 'seen' or available.
- I think..any chance of recovery of 'actual lost files'
has been lost, because the space where they were has been written over by new data
this kind of attempt has too be done by special software 'immediately' after the event
if the drive was removed and sent to a 'data recovery center'
some of the pictures 'might' be retrieved, but the process is costly and there is a good chance tne results would be less than stellar
