Image files disapear

[rgboy]

Hi all. I am a photographer. Usually I do all files back up. However this ones I didn't. I woke up in the morning and BUM. Files were no longer on my drive. I have not used the drive since then, but need to know what file recovery software would be the best to recover them?

RG

[harddrivespecialist]

I would strongly recommend to make an image of that drive before you proceed with logical recovery.

[pcimage]

Agree. And also don't install the software on THAT drive whatever you do, or anything for that matter.

Only access the patient drive/image accessed as a secondary drive in a system (where you have an O/S and the recovery s/w installed)

You can try demo versions of s/w such as GetDataBack, R-Studio, Stellar etc. to see if the files are still there.

[Vulcan]

@rgboy:

I woke up in the morning and BUM. Files were no longer on my drive.

Files do not just "disappear" - there are several possible reasons why they may not be visible now, on that drive. Unfortunately your problem description is not detailed enough, for me to understand exactly what you did to transfer the files onto the "problem"(?) drive, and how you know that they definitely were written to that drive in the first place.

So you can certainly try the good advice given already in this thread - but there could be more to this situation, depending on the details which you haven't given so far... (filesystem health, drive health, copying procedures used, etc. etc.)

P.S. You could also consider whether the original camera flash media would be another possible source, for recovering the "missing photos".

[Bjerringbro]

Your Filesystem fell out. What OS do you have? (don't copy anything onto the disk)