well where do i start ?

in short my pc updated a avg file yesterday morning then crashed would not load windows after that got as far as the welcome screen then rebooted again anyway had a doctors appointment which i went to and came back to find my daughter and i quote fixing my pc she had put the recovery disk in that i first made when i got the pc just over a year ago yes the pc is now working again bless her :cry but i have lots all my photos, the thing is i have been file transfering to disk and only had my photos and a few other things to do is there anyway i can get my photo back :confused i know nothing about pc so please laymans terms
christine x

 

Grab a copy of ReCuva. May be able to help on getting your pictures back.

 

hi thanks but no luck tried that :cry

 

Sorry for the delay.
Have you tried to use System Restore?

 

Hi christine154,
Welcome to MG

Maybe try Undelete Plus, it's very effective and really simple to use. And it's free.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Undelete_Plus_d5301.html

My second choice would be DataRecovery

http://www.majorgeeks.com/DataRecovery_d6080.html

Good luck!

 

I know this is too late for you Christine but I never keep important things just on my hard drive. Things always go wrong sooner or later, software or hardware, so either burn them to CD/DVD disk or e-mail them to yourself leaving the files on g-mail/hotmail etc. or both.

I have photos and documents that I never want to lose and gawd forbid, if the worst happens like a flood etc.. I might sound anal to you but at least I know it's somewhere off site. Businesses do this all the time.

BTW, don't write anything to your hard drive as that will kill whatever's left there and still intact. Good luck!

 

augiedoggie's right,
Anything and everything can go wrong with a computer.
But you can always be prepared for such an event, epecially now a days, with inexpensive USB keys, you can use those to back up pretty much anything. Even more convenient than dvd's, at least you don't have to burn a new one everytime you've added something, like music files for example.

 

can i still do that even though the recovery disc took it back to its factory settings ?
as i said ealier i know nothing really about computers:-o but am willing to give anything a go

christine

 

Sorry, that was wiped out on the recovery that was done. Try the tools that 'Can't come up with any ' mentioned, other than that, you'd need pay for tools and those are pricey and may not even work in your case. Unless you have a friend with the FBI or such..., you're out of luck. Sorry. maybe someone else has had success, hang in there.