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Originally Posted by durandetto
About a year ago my computer crashed (a five year old HP desktop with Window XP) and I lost about a years worth of pictures including two of my kids birthday parties and his first year of t-ball. Needless to say my wife is pissed and keeps bugging me to find a way to get them back. Is it possible to recover deleted files after a recovery? TIA for any help.
Ted
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If you overwrote what was there by re-installing over top of the files then some if not all are GONE. The best thing to do is take the crashed hard drive out of the machine, place it in an external hard drive and do a recovery attempt with software that does that sort of thing.
OR leave the hard drive in the machine and boot from a LIVE CD that has the OS running from the cd (like Knoppix). Then try and copy your files off that way.
The thing you DON'T want to do is re-install the operating system again on the same hard drive. You might just very well overwrite files that you could have gotten back.