I have not heard back from anyone so I decided to just try PhotoRec. It ran for 4 hours and did recover several thousand jpg files; however, over 99% of them are tiny thumbnail images.
I hope to receive replies with other suggestions.
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- 17 Sep 2012, 19:42
- Forum: File recovery
- Topic: recover files from reformatted drive
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- 17 Sep 2012, 05:47
- Forum: File recovery
- Topic: recover files from reformatted drive
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recover files from reformatted drive
A friend had a computer problem and the Gateway helpdesk told her to restore her computer to the factory image but did not tell her that all her files would be lost during the reformat. I am trying to help her recover 20+ years of photographs and other files. I have the disk drive (320-GB Seagate ...