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Re: Recovering lost JPEGs on hard drive

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Robert Macy wrote:
> On Sep 2, 8:54 pm, "glee" <gle...@spamindspring.com> wrote:
>> "Industrial One" <industrial_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> news:95c72c46-b630-48f0-a311-e80ea5a211df@a11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...
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>>> I have no idea how this happened but I lost a whole folder of
>>> important irreplaceable pics. This happened a few weeks before on
>>> another folder in my My Pictures directory but luckily I had a backup
>>> on the VM copy. I don't remember ever consciously deleting them. A
>>> search for the files on Windows turns up nothing, but it also says my
>>> index isn't completely updated for all drives so it's really
>>> complicated.
>>> I have a backup of maybe 10% of the pics in that folder in seperate
>>> RARs that I sent to friends and forgot about, and I searched the
>>> entire drive with a hex editor for any trace of a hex string in one of
>>> the pics and it found multiple instances, all on free space that
>>> hasn't been overwritten yet. I can recover them this way even if it'll
>>> take forever but I have no idea how many bytes to select after the
>>> recognizable header, since all MFT records seem to be gone. How do I
>>> know how many KB a JPG is? Richter?
>>> Anyone got brighter ideas?
>> I've had good results recovering pictures and other files from hard
>> drives and flash drives, using the freeware Restoration:http://aumha.org/freeware/freeware.php#restore
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>> Here's a direct link to the download:http://aumha.org/downloads/restoration.exe
>>
>> --
>> Glen Ventura
>> MS MVP  Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
>> CompTIA A+
> 
> Seem to only get the WinXP version 193KB?  The write up talks about
> Win98 version that's 406KB, but can't seem to find that anywhere. Or,
> are they the same now?

Download is LHA compressed. 197,233 bytes

I don't like running .exe files, even from trusted sites, so I found an
old copy of "lha.exe" to use, to extract the files. It's possible
I got it from CTMC package, eons ago.

Rename the original file, so it's 8.3 conformant. (That LHA program
is pretty old.) Then

    lha e restor.exe

That gives four files.

06/04/2002  02:53 PM             8,127 README.TXT
06/04/2002  02:59 PM           204,800 RESTORAT.EXE
03/21/2002  03:20 PM           204,849 DLL32.DLL
03/31/2002  10:35 AM             6,144 DLL16.DLL

README.TXT says:

*******
[Supported OS]
  Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

[Supported File System]
  FAT12/FAT16/FAT32/NTFS
   Compressed files of NTFS are supported.
   However, encrypted files of NTFS are not supported so far.
*******

Presumably, the two DLLs account for the support of various OSes.

    Paul

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Re: Recovering lost JPEGs on hard drive "glee" <glee29@spamindspring.com> - 2012-09-02 23:54 -0400
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