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Subject: Re: Recovering lost JPEGs on hard drive
From: Robert Macy <robert.a.macy@gmail.com>
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On Sep 2, 8:54=A0pm, "glee" <gle...@spamindspring.com> wrote:
> "Industrial One" <industrial_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> news:95c72c46-b630-48f0-a311-e80ea5a211df@a11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...
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> >I have no idea how this happened but I lost a whole folder of
> > important irreplaceable pics. This happened a few weeks before on
> > another folder in my My Pictures directory but luckily I had a backup
> > on the VM copy. I don't remember ever consciously deleting them. A
> > search for the files on Windows turns up nothing, but it also says my
> > index isn't completely updated for all drives so it's really
> > complicated.
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> > I have a backup of maybe 10% of the pics in that folder in seperate
> > RARs that I sent to friends and forgot about, and I searched the
> > entire drive with a hex editor for any trace of a hex string in one of
> > the pics and it found multiple instances, all on free space that
> > hasn't been overwritten yet. I can recover them this way even if it'll
> > take forever but I have no idea how many bytes to select after the
> > recognizable header, since all MFT records seem to be gone. How do I
> > know how many KB a JPG is? Richter?
>
> > Anyone got brighter ideas?
>
> I've had good results recovering pictures and other files from hard
> drives and flash drives, using the freeware Restoration:http://aumha.org/=
freeware/freeware.php#restore
>
> Here's a direct link to the download:http://aumha.org/downloads/restorati=
on.exe
>
> --
> Glen Ventura
> MS MVP =A0Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
> CompTIA A+

Seem to only get the WinXP version 193KB?  The write up talks about
Win98 version that's 406KB, but can't seem to find that anywhere. Or,
are they the same now?