Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Mon May 20 22:42:51 CDT 2013
The first thing to do is take the disk out of the PC immediately and don't boot from it again until you have had a go at recovering by putting in an external caddy and running recovery software on it via another PC. Depending on how full the disk was, where the files were located and how much of the disk was overwritten by the restore, there is a fair chance of recovering at least some of the images with one of the recovery programs out there Take a look at: http://photo-recovery-software-review.toptenreviews.com/ I've had good success in the past recovering from flash media that had been reformatted. Can't remember the name of the application I used, but they all work in basically the same way. -- Stuart On 20 May 2013 at 22:14, John Bartow wrote: > Hi All, > I had a young mother call me in desperation (because she didn't call me in > the first place ;-) > > Had an infected Compaq Windows Vista PC and boyfriend took care of the > problem for her by restoring it to "factory condition". She's freaked out > because she had 5 years of pictures of her kids on it that are gone now. > (da) > > My first hope was that he just reinstalled Windows and the user profiles > would be orphaned but alas, not true. Looks like a clean image has been > written to the partition - I'm assuming that like most consumer PCs, the > factory reset reimaged the hard drive's OS partition from the protected > partition. It does have a protected "recovery" partition. > > Any suggestions on trying to recover her photos? > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >