Grumble grumble

[Captain Coffee 2,030]

Today I set myself a goal of taking a screen shot of Every plane in my current hangar, with a shot of the dash...for reference, and to post here as a reference.

 

I spent aprox 2 hours reloading aircraft in FSX, flying each one a minute to get the dash indicators spooled up, then switching views to take two screens.

Ended up with 108 images all named and ready to store/post...and put them into a named folder...oops...I copied them...I meant to move them. No worries, I deleted the originals and then emptied the recycle bin...only to find out that the folder full of named shots was all empty too.

OMFG...3 hours of work flushed away.

 

I don't think Im going to restart that project anytime soon...at least not till I stop crying.

[Gunner 69]

That must hurt. Its a good ideea to have Recuva installed for such situ's. It can recover deleted stuff.

 

https://www.piriform.com/recuva

 

 

[Kevin Firth 114]

Do a quick search for undelete, there's a few free utilities that will recover deleted files pretty easily, as long as you haven't done anything to overwrite the original data. deleting the file normally doesn't actually delete the data only the entry in the file allocation table, so it's not difficult usually to reconstruct that and hey presto your hours of work weren't in vain good luck! K

[brett 2,315]

I hate when that happens.

 

Hope Kevin's fix helps, that is a lot of work down the drain. I'm sure most of us have had that happen, I know I have. I once deleted a whole sound file for a mission and that included all of the work of recording synthetic text to voice WAV files. The crying ends, the rework begins but the memories(make that lessons) never fade.     

[Captain Coffee 2,030]

I tried Kevin's solution...regrettably all the files were corrupted and unrecoverable.

 

On the other hand...I have a new grumble! Yaaaa!

 

My fancy new SSD equipped desktop went belly up and won't even boot into safe mode. I don't have recovery disks or usb boot stick or anything. And I have tried several tips on how to force the machine into Advanced Recovery mode...all I get is a screen with chinese text and the option to hit Enter or F8...both of which are followed by a windows logo that wont go away...and won't boot into any mode.

 

I am considering packing the box over to a fixit shop...evaluating the SSDs (did one die???) to see if one needs replacing...and even if not...I am considering just removing the AMD processor and motherboard if necc., switch to an Intel CPU (wish i knew FSX preferred intel before buying the machine   didn't do enough research   ). And get Windows7 cleanly installed over freshly wiped drives with as few extra garbage programs added to it as possible and try to forget I ever had Windows8 (I hate it...it's like it wants to be an APP platform instead of a Desktop)... If they can grab my data off of the drives...fine...if not...what ever.

[flybytes 34]

Matt.

 

am assuming that you have access to another computer, although you may be posting on your phone or tablet, but if you are on a Microsoft O/S PC or have access to one, you can create a recovery disk/cd/usb-stick which should work on your 'broken' PC, regardless of Microsoft's O/S version.

 

I know because I recovered my sister's Vista PC with a recovery disk created on my Windows 7 PC.

 

Hope it works for you.

 

Ray.

 

[flybytes 34]

Matt,

 

going back to your original query, I also lost some files after deleting them. As Kevin says, there are numerous freeware recovery software systems out there - just because one only recovers files that are corrupted (in your case), another will probably recover some of them & yet another may recover some of the others.

 

I used about three different freeware s/w programs to eventually recover about 90% of the lost data. There are some which specialise in recovery of data on SD cards.

 

As in any file recovery system, the quicker you act, the better, delay will result in you overwriting areas of the disk which the file allocation table (FAT16/FAT32 etc) believes is free space, resulting in more corruption of your older data.

 

Ray.

 

[Captain Coffee 2,030]

thanks for the advice flybytes...I keep running into the problem that I don't have installation or recovery discs for either of my computers.

I found instructions for a "Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool", but the instructions say I need the Installation discs to use the program.

 

CompBlocked.

 

And regarding my original concern...those horses burned with the barn. I could not care less about the lost photo files at this time

 

and...ya...this is way over my paygrade trying to do this online...I don't understand half of the instructions I am reading. Time to take the box to a professional and let them scrub it clean and install a fresh Win7 on the machine. And if it's not crazy expensive I'll replace the CPU with a good Intel model. (suggestions very welcome here, but I'll poke into the hardware forums for some ideas ofc.)

 

I hope they can dump my files onto my huge external once they get it open...hate to lose all my modified aircraft.cfg files. But every piece of software for FS that I need to reinstall my goodies is backed up on that external drive (as well as available from the vendor accounts), so I'm not worried about losing any important FS stuff if my machine gets wiped clean.