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Please Help! Accidentally deleted the entire My Pictures Folder - trips to India, etc!
& while I can find ways to recover data from the card I can not find how to recover files & folders from the machines memory
It is an HTC HD2
Any Ideas Please ??
All & any help Most gratefully received
Thanks in Advance
M
Once it's gone, it is gone. Unless it exists somewhere else, it is gone.
ouch, that really hurts... there should be a way to undelete from the phone's memory. if there is one, i hope you find it.
There is still hope...
Hi, don't just assume that once you've deleted it, it's gone. There is still hope for your data. You see, when you delete something it doesn't actually get removed, the OS just "hypnotizes" itself into forgetting the data is there. Over time the data will become overwritten (depending on how much you used the sdcard your pictures were on).
There are special programs designed to recover deleted files, I recommend Recuva by Piriform (same guys who make CCleaner).
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Just point it to your sdcard and scan. Again, depending on how much you've used your device they may either be completely gone or easily recoverable.
Good luck
JoonatanO said:
Hi, don't just assume that once you've deleted it, it's gone. There is still hope for your data. You see, when you delete something it doesn't actually get removed, the OS just "hypnotizes" itself into forgetting the data is there. Over time the data will become overwritten (depending on how much you used the sdcard your pictures were on).
There are special programs designed to recover deleted files, I recommend Recuva by Piriform (same guys who make CCleaner).
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Just point it to your sdcard and scan. Again, depending on how much you've used your device they may either be completely gone or easily recoverable.
Good luck
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He is talking about the phone memory
...while I can find ways to recover data from the card I can not find how to recover files & folders from the machines memory
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you could try one of the mem card recovery programs and connect in active sync mode, might see internal memory as a drive ? ...
worth a try !
knobbyhtccruise said:
you could try one of the mem card recovery programs and connect in active sync mode, might see internal memory as a drive ? ...
worth a try !
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I second knobbyhtccruise's suggestion. Dont use any apps that may write to your phone memory. Just try ActiveSync method and use this software i have attached below.
Unzip the file to desktop. Connect ur HD2 via AS.
Run Restoration.exe and in Drive see if you can access phone memory. Goodluck
No data recovery software can access the phone memory of HTC or else other smart phone etc
Can't be saved dude. No go dude. No go.
ayyu3m said:
I second knobbyhtccruise's suggestion. Dont use any apps that may write to your phone memory. Just try ActiveSync method and use this software i have attached below.
Unzip the file to desktop. Connect ur HD2 via AS.
Run Restoration.exe and in Drive see if you can access phone memory. Goodluck
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Try http://www.datarecovery.com/. It helped me. It's not free, but you can try if it finds your files for free. Does it find it, you have to buy it to be able to save the files. Worth a try! Good luck, man!
Firs of all, many thanks to all the respondents,
perhaps someone would be kind enough to help me enhance my understanding?
As far as I know a file system allocates space for files & directories, when it is told to delete something it does not do that but instead merely marks the space as available by setting a bit / flag on that entry. This being why it is imperative NOT to write to the file system in the case of an accidental deletion & a recovery program merely reverses the process to mark the space from available to unavailable & displays the entry again
in some expert hands even a hex editor can be used to undelete / recover data
to my limited knowledge both the internal memory & the sd card use a fat32 file system
given the above, I do not understand what is the difference & why data can be recovered from the sd card but not from the main memory. Perhaps someone more qualified can set me straight please?
A random thought - would there be any use setting up a dual boot to android & would that help / harm my case - thought being that there may be more tools available?
once again TIA
M
once a file is deleted, the space is marked as resuable. Therefore, stop using the device because every of your activity may be destorying (overwriting) your deleted data beyond recovery.
SD is recoverable because you can mount it to a PC using a card reader, or even using the HD2 directly. Then most software can read the storage and try to recover. Phone member is presented to the PC as a connected device and it may not be possible for other PC software to access it like a storage device. If you can find a tool that copies the whole 476MB (or whatever) memory to somewhere else (PC hard disk, SD card, any passive storage that is not a phone), then those software will probably to able to handle it.
here is a program that can undelete files from external and internal storage. good luck.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.hexamob.hexamobrecoverypro
AthenaLod said:
here is a program that can undelete files from external and internal storage. good luck.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.hexamob.hexamobrecoverypro
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I assume it might help if he has NAND android, otherwise it won't.
did some searching and found two programs that may or may not help on WinMo
Wizcode Unformat Mobile
Wizcode Undelete Mobile
not sure if they can access phone storage. but you can try. hopefully, you haven't fiddled much with your phone since then. it's been about two months.
I believe Wizcode undelete mobile works on storage card only.
alex fung said:
I believe Wizcode undelete mobile works on storage card only.
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so I think the only hope is by sending it to a service center hoping they have tools to mount device memory as removable device, and tools to recover deleted files.
and next time, save your photos on your SD.
if you know anyone with a copy of your photos, now is the time to start calling friends.
recently i mount my phone n sd card to a comp. after mount,i saw that my folders make duplicate of itself with the name -.exe. ( music.exe) . since then,my phone have start to reboot itself really often. i really need help here to what i can do to fix this. tq
xperia x8 proud owner
Yes, it's a virus.. :s
Edit: it's not an android virus, it only infects windows. You are probably getting random reboots becase the virus changed the names of important files on the sd
What it usualy does is hides your real files/folders and creates shortcuts with the same names linked to an exe.
Best way to get rid of it is formatting the sd or desinfecting it with an anti-virus on a computer. Be carefull because the virus also creates an autorun.ini that runs an exe as soon you connect the sd to the computer
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so i just need to format my sd,not my whole phone (system,etc) right?
xperia x8 proud owner
yes it is better you format your sd card and your pc, ie c drive (which ever folder windows is on) and re install windows again.
This is a very very old virus, you must have clicked on some exe file that had this virus
if i format my sd, wat will happen to my root,xrecovery n custom rom? do i need to use pc companion,get eclair 2.1 and then format it?
maliceomalice said:
if i format my sd, wat will happen to my root,xrecovery n custom rom? do i need to use pc companion,get eclair 2.1 and then format it?
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No, but you lose all apps stored on sd card and all your xrecovery or cwm backups. And everything on the sd card like music and photos.
Copy your backups to a not-infected PC or a USB stick, then you won´t loose them
maliceomalice said:
if i format my sd, wat will happen to my root,xrecovery n custom rom? do i need to use pc companion,get eclair 2.1 and then format it?
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You can boot into Linux, and connect SD card to PC. Then delete all exe files and autorun file.
Reboot to Windows, connect card again. Go to cmd and remove system and hidden attribute from all files/folders. Keep in mind that you will maybe have to swap the order of removing attributes (-H -S or -S -H).
Command should be:
Code:
> attrib -H -S X: /S /D
where X is your SD card letter in Windows Explorer.
That's how I was fixing it on my friend's USB memories and cards.
I experienced that. What i did was searched ".exe" using root explorer in my phone and it will load all the exe. Actually its just the folder name since you dont need exe of androids so i delete it all and after that i search for autorun.ini and delete it also that solves my problem. That easy.
deedii said:
I experienced that. What i did was searched ".exe" using root explorer in my phone and it will load all the exe. Actually its just the folder name since you dont need exe of androids so i delete it all and after that i search for autorun.ini and delete it also that solves my problem. That easy.
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ok...done this. i hope this solved it. thank you to all you guys that have been helping.
But, this thread posting at the wrong thread, it must be Q&A.
But this is useful for future
ferraripassion said:
yes it is better you format your sd card and your pc, ie c drive (which ever folder windows is on) and re install windows again.
This is a very very old virus, you must have clicked on some exe file that had this virus
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I think the virus infects all kids of partitions and external devices so be careful if you have more than just one partition on your computer.
Also, warn the owner of the infected pc so he/she can do something about it
I think that it's the virus called brontok
You can scan your SD and your PC with that program called Malwarebytes at free edition destroys all worms from your disks for sure try it and tell me if it worked!!
I need come back to win7 because it want my mother... But I mustn't remove programs (metro I can remove) from my notebook. How can I do it? Sorry, don't know english well...
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if you did not dualboot then you need to reinstall windows seven.
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Just like what the other person said, if you didn't dual boot you have to do a fresh install. What you should do is back up all your programs on a flash drive or external hard drive.
If you can't do that, you can create a partition on your current hard drive. Then you can move all your programs that you want to save on that newly created partition.
Then you can install Windows 7 back on your computer. Make sure you don't choose your newly created partition for installing Windows 7. This way you'll be able to keep your programs.
The partition will act like an external hard drive. So you don't have to worry about it going anywhere. And it's not necessary for you to merge the partitions back once you go back to Windows 7.
Creating a seperate partition is a very good suggestion, which i have personally done on my pc several times. Not really any way to install windows 7 again without a little extra work.
So I'm considering throwing in my first SSD. I'm looking at nothing too fancy (OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SATA3 6GB/s, Read: 560MB/s, Write: 430MB/s).
I already have Windows 8 Pro installed and activated on a 500 Sata HD. I'd ideally like to throw in the SSD and have Windows running off of that. Now I've already seen a lot of posts recommended a clean install. Which I'd like to avoid if possible. I'm wondering if I could say, create a back up image of my C: from my SATA drive, wipe everything, install the SSD and do a fresh Win 8 install. Then once I'm up and running restore that image.
Or use some other Windows 8 recovery feature to back up files, settings and apps.
Anyone know if this is possible within Windows 8? I'm ultimately trying to avoid as much reinstalling of apps and programs as possible.
It doesn't hurt to find out. Do your image backup, pull out the HDD, plug in the SSD, and restore. If it works, great. If not, plug the HDD back in and figure out an alternative.
I don't see why that wouldn't work, other than Win8 installing any needed driver for the SSD, and perhaps a re-auth, since a HDD change qualifies as a "major" config change.
I'm assuming you already have a good image backup program handy.
So I guess I'd lose my activation key?
Try reading some articles about it? I have no experience with it so i have no idea:
http://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid+state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows
why don't you just ghost the drive this is what I do. I forget the name of the software I use but it is free and really easy and you can ghost the drive you on as it runs before windows boots. I will update once I have found the software as its been a while since I needed to do this.
edit: I don't have it on my laptop and I wont be back to work till Monday but if you google clone hard drive there are many options. You want one that will clone the running partition.
http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/home-edition/
pistol44 said:
So I guess I'd lose my activation key?
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Although I have never tried it, you can backup your windows activation activation following this:
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/35737-GUIDE-How-to-backup-and-restore-Windows-8-activation
or just clone the harddrive like I said then its all just as if it was on the old you just plug new one in and off you go, then format the old one once tested. 2 points on this your going back into same hardware so that does not matter and windows 8 you can take the hdd out of a pc plug it into diff hardware and off you go after a slightly longer boot. I have swapped from an amd fx based desktop and put into an intel Centrino laptop and worked. I did this after cloning the drive so both desktop and laptop have activated windows 8 from same cloned hard drive (bit odd though as seems to avoid the need for keys and could be a work around to distro win 8)
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So I'm considering throwing in my first SSD. I'm looking at nothing too fancy (OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SATA3 6GB/s, Read: 560MB/s, Write: 430MB/s).
I already have Windows 8 Pro installed and activated on a 500 Sata HD. I'd ideally like to throw in the SSD and have Windows running off of that. Now I've already seen a lot of posts recommended a clean install. Which I'd like to avoid if possible. I'm wondering if I could say, create a back up image of my C: from my SATA drive, wipe everything, install the SSD and do a fresh Win 8 install. Then once I'm up and running restore that image.
Or use some other Windows 8 recovery feature to back up files, settings and apps.
Anyone know if this is possible within Windows 8? I'm ultimately trying to avoid as much reinstalling of apps and programs as possible.
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Are you more worried about your desktop apps or your RT apps? If you have signed in with a Microsoft account and you are on your Trusted PC, your RT app settings will transfer to the new installs and you already know most RT apps install super fast.
If you are worried about your desktop apps, they will install much faster on an SSD drive and just make a backup copy of your "AppData" folder. That's what I did when refreshing my PC caused a bunch of errors and I re-installed.
Windows 8 uses different algorithms for SSDs than for HDDs so ghosting your drive is a bad idea.
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Are you more worried about your desktop apps or your RT apps? If you have signed in with a Microsoft account and you are on your Trusted PC, your RT app settings will transfer to the new installs and you already know most RT apps install super fast.
If you are worried about your desktop apps, they will install much faster on an SSD drive and just make a backup copy of your "AppData" folder. That's what I did when refreshing my PC caused a bunch of errors and I re-installed.
Windows 8 uses different algorithms for SSDs than for HDDs so ghosting your drive is a bad idea.
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True, the RT apps will come back after the install.. I guess I was more concerned for the 15 to 20 games I had installed. I'm looking at a good 4-6 hours of re-install time to get it back to the same state I'm at now. All personal items are backed up externally so I'm ok there.
I guess I've considered just re-installing from scratch now. But last question is will I need to re-activate Windows 8 if I'm adding an SSD? Since I'll be formatting my current HDD, installing an SSD which I'll want the OS running off of I guess there's no way to do a fresh install and keep activation since I'll be formatting the drive the OS is on.
Can I hypothetically, install the SSD initiate a Windows "reset" and hope that it gives me the choice to format my old HDD and install to the new SSD. For some reason I think not. Or do I need to image my C: drive, install the SSD then copy the image over then do a reset? I'm so confused..
pistol44 said:
True, the RT apps will come back after the install.. I guess I was more concerned for the 15 to 20 games I had installed. I'm looking at a good 4-6 hours of re-install time to get it back to the same state I'm at now. All personal items are backed up externally so I'm ok there.
I guess I've considered just re-installing from scratch now. But last question is will I need to re-activate Windows 8 if I'm adding an SSD? Since I'll be formatting my current HDD, installing an SSD which I'll want the OS running off of I guess there's no way to do a fresh install and keep activation since I'll be formatting the drive the OS is on.
Can I hypothetically, install the SSD initiate a Windows "reset" and hope that it gives me the choice to format my old HDD and install to the new SSD. For some reason I think not. Or do I need to image my C: drive, install the SSD then copy the image over then do a reset? I'm so confused..
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You can type in your serial and it will fail to activate by internet. Select to activate by phone and it should work, deactivating your old, erased installation.
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Ok guys let me give you a little background first.
I have a Lenovo Laptop and i wanted to upgrade to Windows 8. Lenovo puts alot of their own programs and stuff on the computer that were actually quite useful at times but they posted a pdf on their website that told me to uninstall 10 billion programs and drivers so I decided to install Windows 8 on a new partition I made which I then installed Windows 8 too without a hitch. I also did this because I didnt know how I would feel about the new OS but I really like it so i'm going to stay with it.
BTW I'm not savvy with this partition stuff at all. I was walked through it. I'm not a total noob though. i just get nervous.
My question to you guys is how can I remove the Windows 7 OS completely and merge that storage with my Windows 8 OS.
I have read its not as simple as just deleting the Windows 7 partition. I have read that if you delete something called a bootmgr (im pretty sure that means bootmanager)it will screw everything up and that it is sometimes in different locations.
I'm attaching a photo of what my drives look like currently. I'm guessing the bootmgr is on the partition with the red arrow pointing to it? If I am correct how do I add the Windows 7 partition (yellow arrow) to the Windows 8 partition (blue arrow)
The photo was taken from within the Windows 8 OS. i hope I have been clear enough for you guys.
You can delete your Windows 7 partition because Windows 8 now controls the bootmanager. Also, If you do delete the partition and boot manager is erased, I can walk you through restoring it. Plus the disk you burned to install Windows 8 with contains recovery tools that can restore the it. Just boot from the disk like you did when you installed Windows 8 and instead of selecting install now choose "Repair my computer" or "Fix problems that prevent Windows from starting". Microsoft has done a good job of making stuff like this recoverable from. Also, make sure you make a System Restore point. If you have an external drive you can also make a "recovery disk" in Windows 8 that will make an exact copy of the partitions of your choice. It takes a lot of space and will completely wipe the drive, so be sure to save any important files on the external drive before doing this.
housry23 said:
You can delete your Windows 7 partition because Windows 8 now controls the bootmanager. Also, If you do delete the partition and boot manager is erased, I can walk you through restoring it. Plus the disk you burned to install Windows 8 with contains recovery tools that can restore the it. Just boot from the disk like you did when you installed Windows 8 and instead of selecting install now choose "Repair my computer" or "Fix problems that prevent Windows from starting". Microsoft has done a good job of making stuff like this recoverable from. Also, make sure you make a System Restore point. If you have an external drive you can also make a "recovery disk" in Windows 8 that will make an exact copy of the partitions of your choice. It takes a lot of space and will completely wipe the drive, so be sure to save any important files on the external drive before doing this.
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This article told me the partition that is marked as active has the bootmgr on it. Is that correct?
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pwnerman said:
This article told me the partition that is marked as active has the bootmgr on it. Is that correct?
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I think it is inside Windows 8. If you have Windows 7 installed and then install Windows 8, all the boot operations are handled by Windows 8 unless you have a third party boot manager installed or a Linux partition that would use grub. You are safe to delete the Windows 7 partition. It won't screw anything up. You are over thinking and over reading. If this partition WAS the one handling the boot operations, then as soon as you installed Windows 8, that changed. Just delete the Windows 7 partition and extend the Windows 8. You will probably have to do it during a boot up and it will probably take a third party program like Paragon Partition manager free or gparted live cd, but it's not going to screw up your bootmgr. Only way that would happen is if you deleted a Linux partition.
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This article told me the partition that is marked as active has the bootmgr on it. Is that correct?
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yes, the active partition must be the boot partition
housry23 said:
I think it is inside Windows 8. If you have Windows 7 installed and then install Windows 8, all the boot operations are handled by Windows 8 unless you have a third party boot manager installed or a Linux partition that would use grub. You are safe to delete the Windows 7 partition. It won't screw anything up. You are over thinking and over reading. If this partition WAS the one handling the boot operations, then as soon as you installed Windows 8, that changed. Just delete the Windows 7 partition and extend the Windows 8. You will probably have to do it during a boot up and it will probably take a third party program like Paragon Partition manager free or gparted live cd, but it's not going to screw up your bootmgr. Only way that would happen is if you deleted a Linux partition.
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Err, no, that isn't always true, my Boot files are on a separate partition to my Win 8, if I delete my Win 7 I will lose the ability to boot, of course its fixable with the Win 8 DVD. Win 8 does take over the boot manager as is fairly obvious, but it doesn't change the location, its for this very reason that when installing multiple copies and versions of windows you always start with the oldest, each successive install will update the boot manager but it will leave it in place, unless of course you install Linux which can and will screw it right up an around the corner if your not very careful!
It's been stuck on this screen after I deleted and extended the drive with ease us partition manager. It rebooted I saw the lenovo bios screen then the Windows logo. Then this screen showed up and hasn't moved for about 2 hours. I'm guessing I got screwed.
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