ever lost a bunch of digital pictures?

3beautifulkids · 12-29-2004, 04:24 AM

I just recovered 99 pictures from a compactflash that malfunctioned right in the middle of taking pictures! I am sooooo very excited at this find I had to share! the recovered pictures had a Christmas, 2 birthdays a trip to disneyworld and the zoo, among misc. pictures. I thought these were lost forever and I was bummed everytime I was reminded of the fact in everyday moments. I was so happy I cried. Can't wait to scrap all those nearly lost memories

so just how did I recover these photos? check out this site http://www.z-a-recovery.com/contact.htm they have a free program to download.

Haley64 · 12-29-2004, 07:41 AM

That is Sssoo fantastic! Isn't it amazing what they can design a program to do? What a treasure for you!

valeri · 12-29-2004, 08:34 AM

how awesome for you! I haven't lost any thank goodness, but this is great to know just in case!

Emma · 12-29-2004, 11:48 AM

That's so cool, what a treat. Unfortunately I don't think there's a way to recover photos that your husband thought you had on your computer and deleted from his computer, no matter how much you yell or cry at him! Those times I just remember that for generations people just had to remember or paint important things, and how "spoiled" I've become by my camera! I love the commercial that says, "Not needing any photos to remember your vacation? Priceless..." then I know that the best times are all up here

Still, I wish I had those back...

3beautifulkids · 12-30-2004, 01:06 AM

emma, unless you've already tried something like this or you no longer have the computer you should give it a try on your hard drive it might just pull up something for you, can't hurt anyways

Haley64 · 01-01-2005, 01:26 PM

I have a question? Did you manage to save those photo's from your digital camera card? Or had you downloaded them to your computer and lost them and then this program found them back for you?

I looked at the site for the program but it looked ssooo complicated?
I know I have lost photo's on this computer's hard drive, that I would love to have back again. Some of them I accidentally threw away and emptied my garbage can!! ;o( I always hear on the "Detective" shows how they manage to get information back even if the people have deleted it from their computer. Is this kind of what this program does for photo's?

tshirt · 01-01-2005, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Haley64

( I always hear on the "Detective" shows how they manage to get information back even if the people have deleted it from their computer. Is this kind of what this program does for photo's?

I have a dead HD with 80 Gigs of data on it. I found this website online to be the least expensive. I have not sent in to them yet so use at your own risk. Some of the other places want up $3000 to recover your data. I have sinced learned the hard way to make backups not leaving them on the HD's but to put them onto DVD's.

The data recovery site is in Madison, WI
http://www.gillware.com/

My HD backup program of choice is Power Quest Drive Image
http://www.softlandmark.com/PowerQuestDriveImage.htm

Matt

SuzanneCWalker · 01-01-2005, 09:33 PM

Oh, WOW - that's better than "finding" the $20 I put in my coat pocket when I put it away for the summer!

How awesome! I'm going to check out this site - I have a 512 compact flash card that just died on me not too long ago...

DECSANTA25 · 01-12-2005, 09:28 AM

Hmmm.....
I have an older Sony Mavica that copies pics to a floppy. Found a great deal on floppies--- really cheap for about 50 of them. I've lost a couple disks worth of pics because of these cheap things. They work once or twice... and that is about it. Computer can't read them now. Oh well... should have backed them up. Live and learn!

3beautifulkids · 01-12-2005, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Haley64

I have a question? Did you manage to save those photo's from your digital camera card? Or had you downloaded them to your computer and lost them and then this program found them back for you?

I was able to get the photo's from the compactflash card itself, but it will work on hard drives too.... I've been meaning to run it on the old computer's hard drive sometime... it will take an extremely long time to run on a hard drive though it took about an hour to do a 64MB card. but any amount of time is worth it for lost photos!

ForensicIT · 02-11-2005, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Emma

That's so cool, what a treat. Unfortunately I don't think there's a way to recover photos that your husband thought you had on your computer and deleted from his computer, no matter how much you yell or cry at him! Those times I just remember that for generations people just had to remember or paint important things, and how "spoiled" I've become by my camera! I love the commercial that says, "Not needing any photos to remember your vacation? Priceless..." then I know that the best times are all up here

Still, I wish I had those back...

Hello Emma,
Those pictures on your husbands HD may not be a total loss. Depending on how long ago and how much new software has been written to it, I may be able to recover those. It would mean, though, that he would not be able to use his HD for a time while the information is being recovered. I can be reached directly at didier@bright-side.net or visit our new site at www.forensicsit.com. Good luck -Didier

**Tina** · 03-10-2005, 07:52 AM

Will this work on purposely deleted pictures or just when a CF card malfunctions? I copied Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years pix to a cd- then deleted them from my camera. Well, something happened and the cd got a tiny crack it in, and then moisture got into it

I was able to recover my Christmas pics (YAY!!!!), but the New Years and Thanksgiving are gone.

Also, does the trial version get the pix back for you or just show you what you can get if you pay for the full version?

Thanks for the info..........

ForensicIT · 03-10-2005, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Tina

Will this work on purposely deleted pictures or just when a CF card malfunctions? I copied Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years pix to a cd- then deleted them from my camera. Well, something happened and the cd got a tiny crack it in, and then moisture got into it

I was able to recover my Christmas pics (YAY!!!!), but the New Years and Thanksgiving are gone.

Also, does the trial version get the pix back for you or just show you what you can get if you pay for the full version?

Thanks for the info..........

Since I'm not sure to whom you are responding too, I'll go ahead and throw in my two cents worth. Did you recover from the CF card or CD? Depending on how much room was used on the CF card for the newer pictures, there may still be some of the older photos on it - but this would have to be done using additional software to read it properly. I'm assuming your computer is unable to read the CD that was damaged, if so, try someone else's CD ROM - they all tend to act differently with bad CD's and might be able to read it. Not sure of your reference to "trial" version. Good luck
-Didier didier@bright-side.net

3beautifulkids · 03-10-2005, 12:00 PM

Tina,

I was sooo amazed by this program, It's worth a try on your stuff. I am pretty sure you can use it on any thing, hardrives, memorycards, cd's (but don't quote me on that) I used it on my MC (via my printer!!!?), and I remember it had options for other drives on my computer. and unlike similar programs out there it doesn't just tease you with a look at your pictures and then makes you purchase the full program to actually get them.

The program does take a very long time to search and recover, and I was to afraid to do anything else on the pc until it was done (that may not be necessary) -just thought I would throw that out there so you know and can plan when you want run it

Let us know how it goes if you use it and how much you were able to recover!
~trudy

**Tina** · 03-10-2005, 12:10 PM

Didier and Trudy,

Thanks for the replies. The pictures that I was able to recover came off the cd, from the non damaged areas, I would assume.

Didier, I tried the CD at the Walmart Digi Machine and it wouldn't read them either.

Like I said, I'm missing New Year's Eve pics and Thanksgiving pics. My card currently still has New Years Day pics on it-but it is nearly full.