What if you lost your digital images?

[dmm96452]

I lost a bunch of images this weekend. Not a good feeling. Especially when you have a brand new, empty 400GB external hard drive sitting next to the computer that just crashed. I had copied almost all of my pics to the HD then decided to format it a dif. way so i deleted most of them. They were still on the computer hard drive so no big deal. Then on Saturday I start up my PC and get an error message. I tried to follow the instructions that popped up with the error message but didn't have any luck with that. The only way I could get the computer to boot up was to put in the recovery disc that came with it. That wiped out everything... I haven't figured out how many pics I actually lost, and there wasn't much on there that I would consider "print worthy", but there were some sentemental pics on there. Christmas pics from grandmas house, airport pics of my future brother in law saying good bye to his family before being deployed... A couple landscape photos that I wanted to print, and a whole lot of snapshots that I wouldn't have done anything with.

All in all, it wasn't as bad as it could be. I had started buring stuff to DVD's a while ago, so some of the stuff I lost, was backed up, but not all of it. The biggest pain so far has been getting PS reinstalled. A couple hours and 7 CD's later, it was finally up and running again. Now I have to find and reinstal the plug in's that I had loaded, and recreat an action or two.

A good learning experiance for me, and has given me a much better idea of what I want to do to back up my photos in the future.

The next time something like this happens to you or anyone else that reads this there is a way to work around the error message that doesn't lose data on the C drive.

Place a new or spare HD in the pc and and reinstall or run the restore disk to get the operating system on that disk. Then add the old drive back in as a second drive and you will be able to copy your files to the new drive (assuming it was software and not a bad hd that caused the problem).

[Alison]

My hubby backs mine up in 3 different places.
He has the computer to back up every night, well early hours of the morning, at around 2am. So any work we have done is auto backed up.
I would die if I lost my pictures!!!

[Cheayol]

My hubby backs mine up in 3 different places.
He has the computer to back up every night, well early hours of the morning, at around 2am. So any work we have done is auto backed up.
I would die if I lost my pictures!!!

The best way is that do no overwrite new photos, and try photo recovery programs.
Many programs can recovery digital images, such as Bitwar Data Recovery, Recoverit, etc. Some are free of charge. Choose one and have a try.
Good luck.

[AlbertJH]

There is no software which can recover overwritten data from computer/pc/sdcard or any other digital device because I have tried many software including bitware. But recover the Data if the device have not overwritten I tried some software such as Minitool, Stellar Photo Recovery, Hetman and more. These all software recover digital images, videos, photos with easy solutions! Thanks.