Is there any way in the world i can restore deleted photographs of the family holiday (wife very angry) I have seeked assistance from windows help page and it says if it has (something like) c:/server name/ documents, which is coming up when i right click on properties it says i cannot undo the action. But surely there is a way!!!!

Gary, October 2007

There is a bit of software called getdataback , great software

Mathew lisett, December 2007

Hi

If the files you want aren't in the Recycle Bin, the most important thing to improve their chances of recovery, is to stop using the drive letter where they were saved. If you've already used it extensively, saving large files to it, then the pictures have probably been overwritten. On the other hand, if the pictures were on drive E, F or G for example and you've only been using drives C and D since deleting them, then they might be recoverable. Bear in mind that drive C is constantly used by Windows itself, so you can forget it if that's where they were saved.

Suites which include a recovery program (called Undelete) are Symantec's "Norton Utilities" and also "SystemWorks". You can get old editions of these cheap on eBay, get a version that is compatible with your version of Windows! Beware that the act of installing a new program causes parts of the disc to be overwritten (with the new program) - but that's OK so long as you're installing it on a drive letter OTHER THAN the one where the pictures you want to recover are.

Best Wishes

SS, November 2007

Start by having a look in your Recycle Bin. That's where deleted items are sent. If you have cleared that as well there are some proprietary products that can recover deleted files. (Do a search on the web for them.)

BUT, if the deleted items are not in your Recycle Bin, anything that your write to disk from now on will overwrite those deleted files making then unrecoverable without using very sophisticated, that is to say expensive, techniques.

t, October 2007