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02/17/2008 07:31:25 PM · #1 |
Nightmare! I just bought a Western Digital 500gb hard drive and put all of my photos onto it. I was editing a couple of shots that I was going to upload tonight and turned it off by accident, this led to Vista going crazy, everything freezing and crashing and when I turned the drive back on all of the photos I had in folder of the photo I was editing today are missing! 3gb of ski holiday and challenge shots all gone!
Has this happened to anyone else? Please please someone tell me there is a way to get these shots back, I'd JUST transferred them so I have no backups, I wiped the SD cards too, why?!
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02/17/2008 07:38:46 PM · #2 |
What ever you do don't take any more pictures with those sd cards. They should be recoverable if you don't take any more pictures with them.
I doubt you can recover the shots from the hard drive if it's still writing when you turn it off. |
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02/17/2008 07:41:06 PM · #3 |
| I did a cut and paste from my SD cards to my hard drive, will they be recoverable with an undelete program if I didn't technically delete anything off them? |
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02/17/2008 07:44:12 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by JimiRose:
I did a cut and paste from my SD cards to my hard drive, will they be recoverable with an undelete program if I didn't technically delete anything off them? |
Delete just gives your camera the permission to write over the previous shots. Someone with more knowledge of this will hopefully come onto this thread with more infomation.
It's better to copy to your computer and use the camera to reformat actually. |
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02/17/2008 07:45:33 PM · #5 |
| I know, yet another stupid thing I should have done... woe. |
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02/17/2008 07:49:46 PM · #6 |
Search the threads for Recovery Software. There have been many links posted for free/demo software that will recover files from your memory cards.
This thread has a few...
Message edited by author 2008-02-17 19:53:17. |
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02/17/2008 08:06:57 PM · #7 |
Hooray! Successfully recovered all my missing pictures, thank you so much guys. I love this site more and more every day.
For reference I used OfficeRecovery on my SD cards and it seems to work even if you've cut/paste from them. Legend, I'd better do well in this challenge now! |
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02/17/2008 08:16:08 PM · #8 |
Your $25 subscription just paid for itself with a happy ending. The "family" here at DPC are just waiting for an opportunity to help someone out.
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02/17/2008 08:26:34 PM · #9 |
| I'm so happy I'm going to go read the instruction manual for my new SB-600 :D |
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02/17/2008 08:52:42 PM · #10 |
| Jimi, take a moment to reconsider your hard drive storage strategy. I don't know anything about the rig you're running, but the WD500 you just bought would make a great backup drive. IOW, keep all your photos on your main (internal) drive (and everything else too, not just photos), and back up the whole thing at least once a week to your external. If you don't have enough room on your internal, make the WD500 your primary data drive and then buy a second one to backup to. You NEED to have some sort of backup strategy against that day when the unthinkable happens (much like what just happened to you, only much, much worse). |
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02/17/2008 09:21:10 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by JimiRose:
Nightmare! I just bought a Western Digital 500gb hard drive and put all of my photos onto it. I was editing a couple of shots that I was going to upload tonight and turned it off by accident, this led to Vista going crazy, everything freezing and crashing and when I turned the drive back on all of the photos I had in folder of the photo I was editing today are missing! 3gb of ski holiday and challenge shots all gone!
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I had the exact same thing happen to me with the WD 500G drive. I finally had to take it to a repair shop so they could transfer the files onto a different HD. It was spinning but my computer wasn't recognizing the drive at all. What a POS. After the transfer I had them trample the old drive with an SUV.
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02/18/2008 07:19:17 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by strangeghost:
Jimi, take a moment to reconsider your hard drive storage strategy. I don't know anything about the rig you're running, but the WD500 you just bought would make a great backup drive. IOW, keep all your photos on your main (internal) drive (and everything else too, not just photos), and back up the whole thing at least once a week to your external. If you don't have enough room on your internal, make the WD500 your primary data drive and then buy a second one to backup to. You NEED to have some sort of backup strategy against that day when the unthinkable happens (much like what just happened to you, only much, much worse). |
I know that this is probably the sensible option but it becomes an expensive game when you're forced to backup your backups (especially on my meagre student loan). I think i'll have to stick it all on cds and hope for the best :-s |
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02/18/2008 07:27:19 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by letenele:
Originally posted by JimiRose:
Nightmare! I just bought a Western Digital 500gb hard drive and put all of my photos onto it. I was editing a couple of shots that I was going to upload tonight and turned it off by accident, this led to Vista going crazy, everything freezing and crashing and when I turned the drive back on all of the photos I had in folder of the photo I was editing today are missing! 3gb of ski holiday and challenge shots all gone!
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I had the exact same thing happen to me with the WD 500G drive. I finally had to take it to a repair shop so they could transfer the files onto a different HD. It was spinning but my computer wasn't recognizing the drive at all. What a POS. After the transfer I had them trample the old drive with an SUV. |
This is the first time i've gone with a WD external but I have to say that it is FAR too easy to turn it off by mistake. Granted I might be accused of having sausages for fingers for saying this - but i've had it a day and turned it off against my will three times by hitting the HUGE on/off button on the front. I mean i'm sure that some people appreciate being able to control their hard drive with a button an inch across but IMO it's a design fault - epecially considering the catastrophic nature of the failure they suffer when you do push it my mistake.
Humans have learned to find smaller buttons Western Digital ;-) |
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02/18/2008 09:22:24 PM · #14 |
Try turning it around with the "ButtoN" facing the back, so you have to be thinking about it to reach it.
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02/19/2008 07:54:10 AM · #15 |
| Was the drive fat or ntfs? Most external drives use fat for compatibility but ntfs is more forgiving in such situations. |
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02/19/2008 10:13:40 AM · #16 |
If you have a DVD burner, DVD's are a better medium for long term storage, and take much less physical space than CD's for the same amount of data. I back up to DVD from my external HD at the end of each month.
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02/19/2008 10:21:59 AM · #17 |
You shouldn't be editing to an external drive anyway. Even if you store all your images there, you should move copies of the ones you are working on to your primary hard drive. When you are done editing, you can zap 'em back to external storage. The less time that drive spends "on", the less time it spends "working", the more secure it is in every possible way. And working from an external drive is significantly slower than working from an internal HD.
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08/29/2008 02:57:20 AM · #18 |
Hi,
Yes you can easily recover it with the help of recovery software. Few month ago, i were facing same problem. Someone suggested me to use stellar phoenix photo recovery software. It is easy to use as well as demo version show the preview of recovered images. You can try it from here: photo recovery
Thanks
Message edited by author 2008-08-29 02:58:14. |
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