restored and lost all 3000 songs i had in media player

Discussion in 'Software' started by chumpy, Jan 16, 2009.

  1. chumpy

    chumpy Private E-2

    i did a factory restore on my p.c. i have vista. i lost my media files and the back up discs i made are lost as well. can i regain my music? its over 3000 songs i have collected.
     
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    HI

    Sadly No, once you have done this factory restore all the data on the C drive is overwritten, you will have to try and find your backup disks.

    You could try a free software recovery program like Recuva but its highly unlikely now to find your data after a restore and depending on when this restore was done, the more data and more the PC is used the less likely recovery programs will find the data as new data will overwrite them.

    Also dont recover anything in the unlikely event it finds some of your music this music to the same drive your recovering from, restore ro another drive if available or USB pen/CD?DVD as you'll only be overwriting the next lot of data you're trying to recover.
     

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