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Recover deleted pictures Anonymous
Hi /p/

This is my first post ever here and it's a bit offtopic, but here is the best place to post this imo.

I recently made some pictures at a birthday party of my uncle. I came home, cut & pasted the photos from the camera to my hard disk and shut down the PC.

The next day, my uncle died in his sleep, so my family asked for the photos of the birthday. But the PC didn't boot (dead hard disk). What piece of software do you advice me to use to recover the photos from the camera? I haven't turned the camera on since the copy, so technically the photos should still be recoverable.

Picture a bit related

Thanks!
>> Anonymous
if the pictures are on the camera, take the pictures off the camera again? if they are only on the hd try connecting the hd to a diff computer and see if you can access it.
>> Anonymous
>>88040
The pictures aren't on the camera anymore, I Cut&Pasted them on the hard disk, who is completely dead (tested on 3 other PCs and it makes a horrible sound)
>> Anonymous
I just used this program yesterday to retrieve photos from a CF card.

http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/smartrecovery.html
>> Anonymous
>>88041
then google for data recovery software and run it on the camera/memory card. the pictures should still be there. just dont use the camera/memory card.
>> Anonymous
the piece of software called RSTUDIO is the best for recovering ntfs and fat32 hdds... at least something you can pull off... you can download it from emule or buy it
and if's still in the card, any card recover software can help you, there's lots of it available, just google it, seriously, pretty easy
>> Anonymous
http://www.recuva.com/ worked
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
>>88039
/g/ gets this all the time and they dont help
>> Macheath !8b4g0BkNZg
Send it in to a pro data recovery lab. It might need to be taken to a clean room and have the platters removed and all.

When you say dead, what do you mean... Can you still hear the hard drive spin up? Is it only the boot partition that was damaged? If so, you might be able to recover it yourself by booting from another drive I guess.
>> Anonymous
>>88062
He's right. For something this important, you need to call in professionals.
>> Anonymous
>>88078
He got the pictures off the flash card.
>> Anonymous
dig up the body, dress it up in party hats and shit and get a cake and restage the photos and maybe shop in some ghostly grim reaper behind him for the lulz
>> Anonymous
>>88091
I lolled
>> Anonymous
>>88036

You can also try flipping the hard drive upside-down.

Many hard drive problems are caused by the platter bearings failing: specifically the BOTTOM bearing. The bottom one sees a lot more load than the top one, because the weight of the platter bears down on it. When you flip the hard drive upside down the load is now off the bad bearing and instead is resting on the top bearing, which is typically in much better shape. You can then try to get the data off of it.

This trick doesn't always work, but it's worth a shot. It's free and easy to try!
>> Anonymous
>>88356
Failing that freezing the hard drive can give amazing results, 90% of the recently deceased HDDs that I encounter work fine (temporarily) after a good freezing.
>> Anonymous
>>88356
alternatively, rather than flipping it upside down, you can just levitiate it by holding a powerful magnet above it, which unloads the possibly poor bearing without hurting the top one
>> Anonymous
r u kidding and trying to trick noob?
if not, this has to be the most epic of fails.
>> Anonymous
>>88437
lol save that type of trolling for /g/
>> Anonymous
Here is how the data professionals get data off a hard drive. First, they use software. The drive is dead, you can't do that. Then, they have a store room with every type of hard drive ever made, they get the equivalent drive, swap the electronics over and see if it works. Finally, if that doesn't work they take the drive apart and change the motor or heads etc. It's only fair that the family should pay, I have no idea what it'll cost you or them though.