I thank everyone who has helped me with my external drive questions. I have decided to go to windows seven forum whenever I have a question about what to do and what not to do. I have lost so many pictures because of what I have done. Thanks once again to all of you.
Just to add my twopennyworth. If you delete a file from your main hard drive it will go into your recycle bin and from there you can restore it with just one click!
Just a thought too Carol what I do from time to time is to put my pics on sticks - I find that useful when I have to do installs of whatever OS one is doing. It is just a matter of copy paste Pictures to the new install Pictures. Plus the sticks are so transportable and high capacity sticks are not that expensive these days
Carol, I really hope there is a way to undelete or recover deleted files from that external hard-drive! Have you tried Piriform's Recuva, PhotoRec, or anything else? As long as the ext HD has not been vastly over-written, there might be some hope.
Hmm Roland beat me to it with the recovery stuff I find Recuva good to use but never have had to use it that much. Some others that might help Best Free Data Recovery and File Un-delete Utility | Gizmo's Freeware
Now I would be surprised if the data recovery stuff cannot pick up something because I regularly check for duplicate files and weed them out to give me more disk space so they should be there wheresoever.
One last mention I used (and still would) to use this a lot to recover data from a drive
BOOTABLE UBUNTU
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Set the BIOS to boot from the optical when the machine boots it will show you a screen with TRY or INSTALL > select TRY not INSTALL
When it is finished - it takes very little time you will get a screen like in the pic .
Open the drive you want > User and dig down until you get to the data / settings you may be able to copy / paste the material you want to an external source or other installed drive doing this.
I am not sure if it will but I have recovered tons of data etc using this method both on "dead" or just plain drives that you cannot get data from using Windows.
There are other Linux based boots that will do the same thing but I find this quick and easy. Just remember this runs in a Linux based system and does not involve Windows which is good because there is no interference from Windows stuff.
It might be worth Carole trying some of the data recovery methods, but I think the real problem was that Carole thought when she saved a picture to her HDD a copy was automatically saved to her external drive as well, which seems that did not happen.
So trying to recover data that is not there at all, will likely prove fruitless.
Good point Ranger :)when she saved a picture to her HDD a copy was automatically saved to her external drive as well, which seems that did not happen. So trying to recover data that is not there at all, will likely prove fruitless.
Yep I suppose although running say Recuva https://www.piriform.com/recuva is not going to cost anything or take long I shouldn't thin. If there is nothing there then nothing lost - so to speak.
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