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

Last edited by David Cameron on 02-27-2007 at 06:36 PM

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

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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.

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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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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.

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

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

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