lost help: How to recover lost pictures and files on my computer.

TRSWANWICK

How to recover lost pictures and files on my computer.

Lost documents and pictures on desktop. My computer was not working it kept freezing up after little bit of time. I started to worry about it crashing. So I opened up ‘my documents’ and dragged two folders onto the desktop. The first was pictures. The second was documents. I was going to burn dvd’s- to back up all my information. Before I had the chance- the computer froze again. I turned it off- and than back on. After it booted up the screen was like the first day I had it. No folders- no files. But- they all were there when I went in ’search’ mode. Except, the two folders I had dragged on to the desktop. I called Gateway and explained the situation. The guy had me do a system restore- which put my computer back 6 days prior. Everything came back folders- desktop screen saver- everything- except those two folders. I told the gateway guy this- he said I probable had a trojan horse virus. He suggested I put in the gateway reboot cd (wiping clean my computer). I said I couldn’t do it.
That there had to be another way. I downloaded and bought Spyware Doctor- it seems to have gotten rid of the virus. So it says. The computer runs fine now. BUT,
The picture file lost was big- like 10 GB. When I click on properties for the C drive it shows the memory being used- like the lost pictures are somewhere on the c drive. I have tried every basic search and even tried Spyware Recovery File- nothing seems to work. Is there any hope???
Please for the love of family pictures and Spring Breaks, Help!

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Zero Ziat 2 #
An Unknown Location | 6 years, 7 months ago (3 months, 3 weeks after post)

Search for data recovering software on Google, I used some good software which actually found it but required registration to recover them. Watch out with those, I am not the kind of guy that loses data usually, I will be helping on the issue via researching the web.

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The Clue 3 #
Minot, ND, US | 6 years, 7 months ago (3 months, 3 weeks after post)

Heres something that you can try. First go into your system properties and click system restore, and disable it. Then reboot and login safe mode (F8) under administrator. Run your cleaners from there and get rid of any viruses and spyware that might still be in system resotre once that is done try a system restore from safe mode and see if it doesnt repalce the missing folders. If that doesnt work you might have to get a file recovery program and use that. Hope this helpes a little and remember to turn the system restore back on once you have tried this. :-)

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astar0id 1 #
Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC, CA | 5 years, 10 months ago (1 year after post)

wow that’s a horrible situation,
Good-
The files are there! but may be hidden!

Bad-
Un-hiding folders may allow a hacker to do sh!t on your comp, so disconnect from internet

Steps-
1.get to your control panel
2. select folder options
3. navigate to the “view” tab
4 scroll down and select ” show hidden files and folder”
5. click apply
6. try manually searching for the folder containing the files

Hope this helped :]

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meetvijay_ #
Bangalore, 19, IN | 5 years, 7 months ago (1 year, 3 months after post)

even i faced a similar situation today…
i had a folder on my desktop with MS office excel,notepad,.bmp files and all of a sudden today after rebooting my machine i found that the folder on the desktop was missing…till now i dontknow the reason y i lost it????
i tried some licenced data recovery softwares but still i was not able to find the data for recovery as it was not deleted….
i tried searching all the drives but still non of the files were found….
i am really confused with what has happened…..
please help its official data and iam in great trouble if its lost…

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nanny0602200 #
US | 5 years, 4 months ago (1 year, 6 months after post)

Post a reply i have lost monotor and library on my 360 share pro

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wileyk #
An Unknown Location | 5 years ago (1 year, 10 months after post)

I found your site to be very helpful. Thanks.

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yelz_vsly199 #
An Unknown Location | 3 years, 3 months ago (3 years, 7 months after post)

arrrr i want to cry i lost family pics that where on my computer i accidently deleted them all and i presses empty recycle bin i dont kno wat to do if i tell my parents my computer will be taken off me and i will be in sooo much trouble because the pics where of our holidays and my brother deleted them off the camera IF ANYONE KNOWS HOW TO GET FILES THAT HAVE BEEN DELETED PLZ I BEG U PLZ HELP ME ASAP!!!!:’(

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bhupen.a12 #
An Unknown Location | 3 years, 1 month ago (3 years, 9 months after post)

i have also had the same problem I rrebooted my PC and found my pictures vedios & songs Missing almost about 23GB tried system restoring nothing helped

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sandievarm #
An Unknown Location | 2 years, 7 months ago (4 years, 4 months after post)

i lost folder options in control panel.then how can i view hidden files.any alternative way?

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agina4rea #
An Unknown Location | 2 years, 1 month ago (4 years, 9 months after post)

I need help.my pics was lost o tried to recovery them.got some how can I get all

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nbouti #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 11 months ago (4 years, 11 months after post)

thank you soooo much. it worked!!!

astar0id wrote:
wow that’s a horrible situation,
Good-
The files are there! but may be hidden!

Bad-
Un-hiding folders may allow a hacker to do sh!t on your comp, so disconnect from internet

Steps-
1.get to your control panel
2. select folder options
3. navigate to the “view” tab
4 scroll down and select ” show hidden files and folder”
5. click apply
6. try manually searching for the folder containing the files

Hope this helped :]

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janny.focu #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 7 months ago (5 years, 3 months after post)

Recovering photos, videos from memory card like sd card or your computer hard disk drive, external memory etc. can be performed with some recovery software even when you are not professional. It is easy. I am computer starter level and when I reformatted

my photos from memory card, some online resources helped me.
see whether it helps http://www.geeksdo.com/data-recovery/

Tips: you can ask the vendor to send you a free code to get deleted photos back. Free to get a full version.

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clbarbr #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (5 years, 9 months after post)

i did a system recovery (stupid thing) and i lost all my pictures, what can i do or where can i go to get them back?

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Sammybull0 #
An Unknown Location | 10 months ago (6 years, 1 month after post)

I had 381 photos of vacation that I wanted to upload to the computer and I put my camera on the computer
it acted like the photos got moved so I looked on my camera (it deletes the photo when it is on the computer
on snapfish) and I had 73 photos on my camera. That is allI have left from vacation! I tried uploading them
but my computer told me I was out of space! Can you please help me find my photos.

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lovelyplus 0 #
An Unknown Location | 8 months, 3 weeks ago (6 years, 2 months after post)

I lost some of my pictures and imagines I deleted them by mistake can you please Help me find them…

ma.angelutheresegaba #
An Unknown Location | 5 months, 2 weeks ago (6 years, 5 months after post)

I lost some pictures on my laptop but i accidentally deleted it. can u pls. help me find them.. pls. i really need those pictures. help me pls.

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chadwick22200 0 #
An Unknown Location | 5 months, 1 week ago (6 years, 5 months after post)

I had the same problem in the past. Thats why I always back up my saved photos,music, and documents. Here’s the site I use. It’s secure, cheap, and easy to use and you will never have to worry about deleting or even a virus wiping out your saved photos again. Trust me it has saved me more then once.

http://goo.gl/Q6xCm

gmelodygon 0 #
An Unknown Location | 5 months ago (6 years, 6 months after post)

Someone just asked that question today. There are links there that should help.

If you are just want to recover deleted photos, try this way: http://www.any-data-recovery.com/topi…

And want to recover all data when windows burt, check out this:
http://www.any-data-recovery.com/wind…

yiliawi #
An Unknown Location | 4 months, 1 week ago (6 years, 7 months after post)

Once I see this question has been more than 6 years.
and gmelodygon is right, there are someone just asked this question, too.
I am one of the guy last week, and then I use this data recovery software and it worked well.
once someone met this problem, again. you can take a try.
Pay attention, do not add more files to your PC/devices before you do recovery to make sure you can recover all the lost data.
http://www.goshareware.com/windows-da…

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