[vulkan75]

errmm HELP!

I thought you guys might be able to help me ere.

Ive got a 60g HDD which is my system disk and its got quite full.Most of the stuff on there is older pictures.

Ive started the pc today and theve all disappeared even though the disk is still showing as nearly full in the properties section of my harddrive.
Ive run a system restore and a chk disk but theve not come back.
Ive bought an external 500g drive ready to transfer them too.

anybody know whats going on and if I can get em back

[tontoshorse]

Have you run a .jpeg windows search yet?

[icemanonline]

Originally Posted by vulkan75

errmm HELP!

I thought you guys might be able to help me ere.

Ive got a 60g HDD which is my system disk and its got quite full.Most of the stuff on there is older pictures.

Ive started the pc today and theve all disappeared even though the disk is still showing as nearly full in the properties section of my harddrive.
Ive run a system restore and a chk disk but theve not come back.
Ive bought an external 500g drive ready to transfer them too.

anybody know whats going on and if I can get em back

Hi Vulkan...........Try this mate, its free and people I know who have used it have given 80-90% recovery............

http://www.download.com/Pandora-Reco...html?tag=lst-2

Hope this helps bud

icemanonline

[cedmondson]

The biggest danger at times like these, is that if the first thing you do DOESN'T work, you may limit your options thereafter. Assuming there's some stuff on the disk that's worth a bit of time...and maybe expense to retrieve I would:-

a) Remove the HDD from your current system
b) Connect it to a different PC as a slave (you may need to swap a jumper over to do this)
c) Use a disk imaging prog to create an image of the disk as it is now. My preference is for Acronis True Image but other progs do a similar job.

Then you can try other recommended tricks to recover the lost data but if they fail and you suspect the disk has got (further) corrupted along the way, you can use the image (a specific kind of backup) to give you another crack at it.

[vulkan75]

Originally Posted by tontoshorse

Have you run a .jpeg windows search yet?

yup and a nef search....I get this

They are there it seems in secret

Originally Posted by icemanonline

Hi Vulkan...........Try this mate, its free and people I know who have used it have given 80-90% recovery............

http://www.download.com/Pandora-Reco...html?tag=lst-2

Hope this helps bud

icemanonline

Thanks Ill shall add that to m just incase list

Originally Posted by cedmondson

The biggest danger at times like these, is that if the first thing you do DOESN'T work, you may limit your options thereafter. Assuming there's some stuff on the disk that's worth a bit of time...and maybe expense to retrieve I would:-

a) Remove the HDD from your current system
b) Connect it to a different PC as a slave (you may need to swap a jumper over to do this)
c) Use a disk imaging prog to create an image of the disk as it is now. My preference is for Acronis True Image but other progs do a similar job.

Then you can try other recommended tricks to recover the lost data but if they fail and you suspect the disk has got (further) corrupted along the way, you can use the image (a specific kind of backup) to give you another crack at it.

Im ok with pc's, but that sounds a but tricky....

[Liquid101]

They just seem to be Capture One thumbnail previews though. It probably creates a cache of viewed folders to save regenerating each time.

Did your NEF search come up with anything?

[tontoshorse]

Maybe a silly question, but when was the last time you looked at them on that drive?

[vulkan75]

yeah sorry that was a bad screenshot,what I meant is that I get that UID prefix on the files on the search results.

[vulkan75]

Originally Posted by tontoshorse

Maybe a silly question, but when was the last time you looked at them on that drive?

Maybe two weeks

[icemanonline]

Originally Posted by vulkan75

yup and a nef search....I get this

They are there it seems in secret

Thanks Ill shall add that to m just incase list




Im ok with pc's, but that sounds a but tricky....

Hi Vulkan...............

Have a look.....maybe it will help...

http://forum.phaseone.com/viewtopic.php?=&p=11484



having a look at the screen shot I see the files are NOT associated with anything, so I did a search for .C1w+file association and the above thread has come up at the top 3 times.

Like I say, not sure if that helps but you never know!

icemanonline

[Liquid101]

Try doing a serach of *all files* between 2-5 MB (I think that would cover D80 NEF's)

Sort by name, and take a look around the D's

[Just call me Al]

Don't know if it's been asked before, but can you rename the files?

[bstonehouse]

You could try PC Inspector which is free and I know of people that have used it to recover corrupted files.

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