Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Mon May 20 23:20:43 CDT 2013
In all honesty, there is little likelihood she will recover all her lost photos and it is uncertain she will recover anything at all, but it doesn't hurt to try. Try out this piece of software. I had luck with it once when a Windows box thought the best thing to do was completely destroy the NTFS partition for no particular reason at all (quality software!). And it actually worked for me. I recovered all the files, although some of them lost their file names. - Hans On 2013-05-20, at 8:14 PM, "John Bartow" <john at winhaven.net> 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