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Technical Support / Possibility to recover overwritten images on harddisk?
« on: December 11, 2012, 04:51:46 AM »
Hello,
I'm new to the forum and have question.
I have a huge problem. About 2 years ago I bought an external drive to archive my photo portfolio older than 2010. I created a folder and moved all my photo's there. They were already be given proper names, something like 090806_photoshootModelX_sugarfactory_Miami.
I installed a backup program that periodically updated the folder with new files. But something went horribly wrong and I don't know how and when it happened. But the complete folder was overwritten with everything after 2010. So all the photo's prior to that are all gone, nearly 5 years of data is just gone.
I tried several deep recovery programs and one them, Recuva, found all my 200.000 photo's. By name, date, even modified and all the meta data intact, witch the focal length, camera info and lens used is all there. I plugged in a second hard-drive to recover them but none of them are actually recovered. The files are empty.
Looking back at the recovery info it states that the file are overwritten by newer files and the recovery might not succeed.
Does anyone have a similar experience in this? How did you get your files back?
Is there any program that exist in 2012 that can somehow recover some or all of the data? Even if it scrambled I can live that.
I'm new to the forum and have question.
I have a huge problem. About 2 years ago I bought an external drive to archive my photo portfolio older than 2010. I created a folder and moved all my photo's there. They were already be given proper names, something like 090806_photoshootModelX_sugarfactory_Miami.
I installed a backup program that periodically updated the folder with new files. But something went horribly wrong and I don't know how and when it happened. But the complete folder was overwritten with everything after 2010. So all the photo's prior to that are all gone, nearly 5 years of data is just gone.
I tried several deep recovery programs and one them, Recuva, found all my 200.000 photo's. By name, date, even modified and all the meta data intact, witch the focal length, camera info and lens used is all there. I plugged in a second hard-drive to recover them but none of them are actually recovered. The files are empty.
Looking back at the recovery info it states that the file are overwritten by newer files and the recovery might not succeed.
Does anyone have a similar experience in this? How did you get your files back?
Is there any program that exist in 2012 that can somehow recover some or all of the data? Even if it scrambled I can live that.