lucky_fox wrote:
I have formatted my C drive and want to get back the photos which i had saved there. I have upgraded from win xp to win 7 64 bit.
You say you formatted the C: & upgraded to win7 64 - I guess you mean you did a clean install. When you did the format was it quick or did it take ages? If it was quick then data recovery software should be able to recover some or most of your photos but the folder structure & names will be lost as the MFT has been over written. Do not write, install programs or save to the drive as you could ruin any chances of getting your data back by over writing the sectors. Also when did this happen? If it happend a while back & you have kept using win7 time is not your friend as I think win7 moves files to different sectors to optimize the os. Can anyone confirm this?
If it took ages to format then you will have lost your data as a win7 normal format writes zeros to the sectors over writing all data.
Loki