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Recovering recently lost files
Please can somebody help.
I am a photographer, I'm trying to recover .CR2 images that I had created and saved from the past few months.
I had to reinstall Windows 10 the other day, after the laptop froze when using Spotify, and I turned off the laptop without Shutting Down, before waiting for it to unfreeze (as it usually does).
I then had the ‘inaccessible boot drive’ message when I booted up. I couldn’t repair Windows so unfortunately so I had to reinstall it.
After installation, I was hoping I’d be a able to access all my old files in Windows.old. However upon opening, the file there were no files to be seen, just Windows.old> users > default > pictures - and then nothing in there, or in any folder such as documents and My name seems to be missing from ‘users’ and there is just ‘Default’ instead.
So this my first issue, I was wondering if anyone had any advice or ideas please?
I have looked all through my PC and used Shadow Exlorer app and have found nothing.
Also, I have tried numerous recovery apps, they all seem to come back with this same issue. I have used undelete, recovery, and damaged partition options with many apps, all with the same result:
Every Canon CR2. image file that is being recovered, is onlyy from 2015, (plus there are no folders at all), and all files are renamed just as fnumbers such as :f219824496.cr2. Some are corrupted with block colours through half the image, some are pure fuzz, and there are thousands of duplicates!
However I just need about 30 files from the past couple of months,(these are the only ones I stupidly forgot to backup!) but nothing from at all from 2016 is showing up. Literally thousands of duplicated image files are being recovered that are only a selection from 2015 (not every image from 2015 either), but nothing from this year.
Does anyone have any ideas about why I cannot retrieve files from this year?
Thank you.