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meh, help

I just had to upgrade someones PC from Windows 95(yeah there are still some about) to Windows XP. She had only 260Mb of files that she wanted to keep so I write them to a cd then formatted the pc and installed XP.

All went smoothly up to the point I put in the cd with the files she wanted keeping, it looks fucked. It recognises there is 260Mb written to it but when I open it this is all I see


Now I am shitting myself that I may not be able to get all her files back, mostly photo's and word doc's.

Would it have anything to do with the fact the files were written from a FAT32 file system, while this one is now NTFS?

Help me someone, I am gonna get seriously fut bucked if I have screwed this up.

EDIT: At this point, my guilt is evenly balanced with my laziness so quick fixes appreciated

Obvious question would be, did you try loading the CD on any other computers?

Tried it on both the computer I updated and my own computer.

Gonna install Windows 95 on a different drive and try it on that when I get some time. Not sure if that would help though.

Tried getdataback FAT version, that finds the data and I can open it up in the file viewer app but when I right click and try to recover it just hangs.

if you can, copy the cd to a hard drive and then use THIS company's utilities to try to recover the files. Their stuff works very well, especially PhotoRec, which will read most any media.

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Originally posted by eljefeoscuro
if you can, copy the cd to a hard drive and then use THIS company's utilities to try to recover the files. Their stuff works very well, especially PhotoRec, which will read most any media.

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Phew.

Got back most if not all of the files with the free version of this

Just one problem, all the recovered files titles had changed so I ended up with about 300 pics and docs with the name Recovered_File_001 - 300

I could open all the docs, see what they are about then rename them all but I think I will leave them as they are.

Its not been an ideal solution but at least its not a total loss.

THanks for the suggestions guys.

PRO-TIP: Next time you take a backup, test it before you "blow up" any data

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Originally posted by Neversoft
PRO-TIP: Next time you take a backup, test it before you "blow up" any data

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