I am totally freaking out right now...I work on a laptop... and I have used up almost ALL my space. My husband is a computer geek... well he finished building our server last night and he told me that he created a drive just for all my scrapbooking stuff so I can take it off my machine and keep it on the server. I was like great!! SO, I copied and pasted my entire "my documents" folder, which contained ALL my scrapbooking stuff. After it was finished copying I went into my C drive and started deleting all my stuff. Well, I got a window that popped up that said files too big for recycle bin do you want to delete permantely ... so i clicked ok thinking... i dont need this stuff anymore.
After that was finished I logged onto the server and clicked on my scrapbooking stuff and NOTHING WAS THERE. ALL my stuff was gone... it had not copied. So I went back to my machine and there was nothing there of course, I just deleted it.
I have LOST EVERYTHING that I had... all my scrap pages I made of my kids, their photos, my scrap designs, MY NEW KIT I WAS GOING TO PUT UP TODAY, ALL my purchased graphics, ALL my purchased commercial use products and the ones I have collected... EVERYTHING... I just want to cry... I can not believe that I have nothing... I am at ground zero... all I have left is whatever plug ins, brushes, actions I have installed in Photoshop...
I am using PC Inspector File Recovery and it recovered ALL of it... I was like YES.. thank you GOD. Well, after I restored it only recovered the folder and none of the files in the folders... so I am back to square one... I am so livid and I dont know what to do.... any suggestions would help...
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I'm really really sorry to hear what happened. try taking your computer to someplace like a Best Buy or somewhere like that. Sometimes they can recover what is still on your hard drive but to you it has been deleted. Good Luck
Once a computer technician told me that even though you delete stuff from your files, it's still on your hard drive, but you need someone who knows what he's doing to recover it for you. I'm so sorry that this happened to you, must be terrible to loose everything. Don't give up on recovery, I wish you good luck! And for the future, back up the most important things to discs!
I just want to say I really feel for you - I recently had a hard disk failure my self and all my pictures and scrapbook-creations are totally gone and there is NO WAY I can get them back..
Sorry for not beeing able to help you - but I send you some warm thougths instead..
If you have Windows XP did you try doing a System Restore and take it back to maybe the day before you deleted your stuff or the closest available day prior to deleting?
I had accidently deleted some files and was able to recover them all by restoring to the day before I deleted. You might try that.
Sorry to hear this has happened. I know how horrible it feels and I wish you the very best.
Kim
Hello Becky!!
WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWZZZERSSSSSSSSSSS!This is outrageous...however GOOD NEWS!!!
Like there isn't ENOUGH cr*p going on in Life?
First...take 100 DEEP breathes
SEcond....hit something NO not your computer or your hubby(well...jk)
Three......Pray!
Four......refer Below.....
You say C. is a C-Geek....rely on HIM to retreive All of your files. If he is as savey as you say He Will KNOW Exactly what he has to do to accomplish this task. If he has a BF then take to Dave's Computers.
Annddddddddd...do NOT use your sys recovery disk!!!
Bigggggggggg Hugggers my Friend,
KimberlyRae
I've been recently reading up on this trying to permanently erase a hard drive on an old PC before giving it away.
You have to have a special program that takes every byte on the hard drive to "zero bytes" in order to permanently erase data. Simply deleting doesn't do it, even a reformat doesn't.
So rest assured all of your files are still there. There are a numbers of programs out there that can retrieve data from a hard drive.
I remember one called "Get Back Data". Not sure if it's free but it may have a trial download. Just read about it first because some trial version perform only limited task.
CNet.com is a reputable site for free downloads that are available. See what they offer. Always read so you kow the limitations of any trial versions.
Some of the designers I know use an external hard drive for back up, but even burning a CD/DVD needs duplicating. Human are still at the controls.
Hope this helps.
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