Running win 7
found out I have a flakey hard drive after I loaded 1000 pictures. I have since been able to recover all but 72. I know that the majority of those are gone, but some are still showing up as complete thumbnails in windows explorer.
Is there anyway to retrieve them, even if file manager tells me it can’t read from source.
Declan
I’ve used three photo recovery programs with varying degrees of luck: Recuva, PC Inspector smart recovery, and MjM Free Photo Recovery. All are free downloads. Don’t install them or anything else on your hard drive though or you might overwrite the photos.
In other words, download them to a thumb drive and run them off of that.
Windows automatically generates thumbnail images and stores them in a separate file. The fact that the photo thumbnails are still intact does not say anything about the condition of the original files on the disk.
It is very important at this point that you don’t overwrite whatever data may be there. Mount the drive as a secondary drive or an external drive so that temporary operating system files can’t corrupt whatever data may still be there then see what you get with data recovery software. You can try generic file recovery programs or you can try some of the photo specific ones already mentioned.
Thanks for all your help folks
Drive has been removed, I look at mounting it to a desktop and see about recovering
Declan
Why is recovering photos from a failed drive any different than recovering any other type of file?