cd copying disaster

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I`d say that they were all gone, i`m afraid. You could go out and buy
something like Norton systemworks (never thought i`d hear myself
reccomending anything by Norton/Symantec ever again) which includes undelete
tools, but its more likely than not that the files are gone.

Let that be a lesson to you, anything valuable back it up.


"Howie" <Howie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:72FC2ED3-1DCF-401A-9F32-332875EFAD87@microsoft.com...
> Hi There,I wonder if you can help me?
> I took a load of pictures of my nipper's school sports day on my digital
> camera and decided to burn them direct from the camera to a CD so she
> could
> subsequently show them to her friends on this and her friends computers. I
> duly plugged in the camera (which showed up as an external drive) and
> dragged and dropped the files to the CD drive icon using windows
> explorerer
> (I use Windows XP - Home Edition). The files were duly transfered to the
> CD
> in 'shadow format' and i clicked on the "write these files to CD" icon.
> All
> went well and as usual, i noticed that at the end of the burning process
> when
> prompted to press the 'finish' button on the Wizard all the shadow files
> automatically disappeared! (A friend has told me that they are
> automatically
> deleted by the Wizard and do not go via the Recycle Bin - Is that
> correct?)
> Well the CD was a peach and i therefore deleted all the files from the
> camera. NEXT?.... Yes you guessed it, about a month later she lost the CD
> on
> the way to school!! So i have tried to find the files that were created on
> the computer during the burning process because the original camera files
> have gone (i use it extensively and on a daily basis for work) and I have
> discovered that they were temorarily stored in a hidden file called "CD
> burning". This folder is however empty. During the interim period I have
> burned 3 or 4 further CDs with loads of data for my wife's MSc studies
> using
> the same technique and the computer has been re-booted every day since the
> original sports day copying. Someone told me that once the files were
> automatically deleted at the end of the burning process that the area they
> had occupied was subsequently made available for new files and that
> because
> of the volume of work then undertaken the likelyhood is that they have all
> been overwritten and are therefore gone forever!!... What do you think?
> Additionally as part of my routine system Maintainance i have de-fragged,
> Optimized and deleted temporary files at least 3 times since the initial
> copy.
> My question is this?.... Do i have a hope in hell of
> retrieving/rescueing/restoring these pictures? I would be prepared to pay
> for
> a specialist company to do some sort of professional retrieval if its
> possible as my daughter is now very sad. Or do i wait till next years
> sports
> Day and save a copy just in case......
> Thank you for your time
> regards Howard
>

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"Matt Buxton" wrote:

> I`d say that they were all gone, i`m afraid. You could go out and buy
> something like Norton systemworks (never thought i`d hear myself
> reccomending anything by Norton/Symantec ever again) which includes undelete
> tools, but its more likely than not that the files are gone.
>
> Let that be a lesson to you, anything valuable back it up.
>
>
> "Howie" <Howie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:72FC2ED3-1DCF-401A-9F32-332875EFAD87@microsoft.com...
> > Hi There,I wonder if you can help me?
> > I took a load of pictures of my nipper's school sports day on my digital
> > camera and decided to burn them direct from the camera to a CD so she
> > could
> > subsequently show them to her friends on this and her friends computers. I
> > duly plugged in the camera (which showed up as an external drive) and
> > dragged and dropped the files to the CD drive icon using windows
> > explorerer
> > (I use Windows XP - Home Edition). The files were duly transfered to the
> > CD
> > in 'shadow format' and i clicked on the "write these files to CD" icon.
> > All
> > went well and as usual, i noticed that at the end of the burning process
> > when
> > prompted to press the 'finish' button on the Wizard all the shadow files
> > automatically disappeared! (A friend has told me that they are
> > automatically
> > deleted by the Wizard and do not go via the Recycle Bin - Is that
> > correct?)
> > Well the CD was a peach and i therefore deleted all the files from the
> > camera. NEXT?.... Yes you guessed it, about a month later she lost the CD
> > on
> > the way to school!! So i have tried to find the files that were created on
> > the computer during the burning process because the original camera files
> > have gone (i use it extensively and on a daily basis for work) and I have
> > discovered that they were temorarily stored in a hidden file called "CD
> > burning". This folder is however empty. During the interim period I have
> > burned 3 or 4 further CDs with loads of data for my wife's MSc studies
> > using
> > the same technique and the computer has been re-booted every day since the
> > original sports day copying. Someone told me that once the files were
> > automatically deleted at the end of the burning process that the area they
> > had occupied was subsequently made available for new files and that
> > because
> > of the volume of work then undertaken the likelyhood is that they have all
> > been overwritten and are therefore gone forever!!... What do you think?
> > Additionally as part of my routine system Maintainance i have de-fragged,
> > Optimized and deleted temporary files at least 3 times since the initial
> > copy.
> > My question is this?.... Do i have a hope in hell of
> > retrieving/rescueing/restoring these pictures? I would be prepared to pay
> > for
> > a specialist company to do some sort of professional retrieval if its
> > possible as my daughter is now very sad. Or do i wait till next years
> > sports
> > Day and save a copy just in case......
> > Thank you for your time
> > regards Howard
> >
>
>
>

I think that you have to have undelete already installed at the time of
deletion for it to work.