I just wiped my hard drive and reinstalled windows. I copied the picture's library onto a thumb drive, but the only pictures on there are sample pictures. None of my other pictures were saved; how can I retrieve them?
Hi and welcome to SevenForums,
Sadly they can not be recovered or at least no method I know of
It's always best to verify files on the device way too late for the info though you already found out why
Just out of interest how did you wipe the drive? and did you copy the Pictures form the start menu?
@ ShadanR. Have a look in your User files to see if they are there.
To do that click on Computer & then on the C: drive, then click on Users, then on your Name (the one you use on this computer), scroll down & see if there is a folder called Pictures, if so Right Click on it & select Include in Library & then select Pictures. This should get them to now show up in your Picture Library.
Documents & Pictures etc., Libraries are just a convenient place to find these items but they are actually stored in separate location, which in this case is under Users. Libraries act somewhat like a short cut does.
Why didn`t you have your pictures on another partition or some other storage device ?
Didn`t you verify that the pictures were on the flash drive before you formatted ????????
Copy, Paste, Verify
Copy, Paste, Verify
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