Yesterday I moved around some files of photo's and had a general tidy up of my laptop and after doing so decided to run a defrag - it took 11 passes and now I have lost half of my photo files!!! Any clue if I might be able to find them - I have checked all user files and recycle bin to no avail.
my concern is that - my daughter uploaded new photos a couple of hours before I ran the disk defrag and the files that are missing contain the photo's she uploaded (I know I should have maybe backed them up 1st but....!)
Is there a way to check when the last system restore point was created?
Hi
First you could use Everything. its Fast and better than Windows Search. if you know the file name enter it here or you could also use Wildcard like *.jpg or *.png etc ..... this will show a list of all the files matching those extension.
If on the other hand your files are deleted.... and you havent't used your system much after that, then you can use Recuva to retrieve most of your files...
Do these and let me know what you find
There was no point in doing a system restore as the restore points were before latest photo's were imported and after defragging when they had gone - it also says that it would have any effect on missing files and photo's.
So I tried searching again to no avail and then downloaded Recuva which could find nothing on my laptop so I tried it on the memory card in the camera. I believe I found the photo's on there but no preview was available although it did say most were excellent and recoverable. I recovered 55 of these photo's but..... I can't open the files now they show in photo viewer but not with a preview - if I double click on them I get a black screen saying it doesnt support this format or I need an update (it is fully updated!) so I guess unless anyone has any more suggestions I will just resign myself to the fact I have lost these photo's
so now I have discovered half the music on my laptop has also disappeared since defragging!
Try running a chkdsk in a command prompt to see if it finds errors with the drive. Don't use any of the switches to repair yet, just see what the check reports and post a screenshot of the reult.
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@ centaur78 - is this what you needed?
@F5ing - don't want to sound too dumb but how do I run chkdsk?
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