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Another computer/technical problem for your consideration.
AnnaB
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I have hesitated to write this post as it is really a bit strange but I do need your thoughts, suggestions and ideas. So hear we go - and please read the BUT at the end.
Over the past 20 years or so I have had three laptops and three mobile phones. Some three years ago my cat jumped on my lap and sent my cup of tea in a wave over the right hand side of the second laptop, not soaking it but a good splash. Dried the laptop out and it worked, sort of, but the screen was pretty caput. However I could access my photos so several months later I took said laptop down to a little man in our village who was well known for dealing with computer problems for the local folks, and asked him to take the photos off and transfer them to a photostick for me. For some reason things did not work out as they should and not only did the photostick not pick up my photos but they also vanished from the laptop.
The poor man was most upset and embarrassed so of course I told him not to worry, the pictures were not that important. I lied, not only were they very important to me but I had lost 8 years worth of memories. So where did my pictures go? Are they floating around in space somewhere or could they be hidden somewhere still in the workings of the laptop? Could a specialist find them for me? Ideas and suggestions please. (the photos are not still on my second mobile phone as I had been deleting them as I transferred them to laptop.)
BUT - the reason why I am asking this is because something very strange happened a few weeks ago which has made me wonder about 'technical' things and seemingly impossible happenings. Old laptop one, amongst many photos, had 6 short videos on it via my old mobile phone. Now jump passed laptop two and phone two to my latest laptop and latest phone - no connection between them. Have had new laptop for approx two years, it only has a couple of hundred photos on it, and new phone just earlier this year. A few weeks ago I was looking up my photos and low and behold I found the 6 short videos had suddenly added themselves! Videos were filmed in 2008 - one was of grand son in his baby walker being fed his tea surrounded by our dogs, grandson is now 15 years old, so I'm sure of the date! How did that happen? How did the jump across from one laptop to another, missing out a middle laptop and phone to arrive on the latest laptop?
Does this mean that my missing pictures from laptop two could be lurking somewhere? I live in hope.
Thank you for reading yet another epistle my friends. Your thoughts will be very welcome.
Over the past 20 years or so I have had three laptops and three mobile phones. Some three years ago my cat jumped on my lap and sent my cup of tea in a wave over the right hand side of the second laptop, not soaking it but a good splash. Dried the laptop out and it worked, sort of, but the screen was pretty caput. However I could access my photos so several months later I took said laptop down to a little man in our village who was well known for dealing with computer problems for the local folks, and asked him to take the photos off and transfer them to a photostick for me. For some reason things did not work out as they should and not only did the photostick not pick up my photos but they also vanished from the laptop.
The poor man was most upset and embarrassed so of course I told him not to worry, the pictures were not that important. I lied, not only were they very important to me but I had lost 8 years worth of memories. So where did my pictures go? Are they floating around in space somewhere or could they be hidden somewhere still in the workings of the laptop? Could a specialist find them for me? Ideas and suggestions please. (the photos are not still on my second mobile phone as I had been deleting them as I transferred them to laptop.)
BUT - the reason why I am asking this is because something very strange happened a few weeks ago which has made me wonder about 'technical' things and seemingly impossible happenings. Old laptop one, amongst many photos, had 6 short videos on it via my old mobile phone. Now jump passed laptop two and phone two to my latest laptop and latest phone - no connection between them. Have had new laptop for approx two years, it only has a couple of hundred photos on it, and new phone just earlier this year. A few weeks ago I was looking up my photos and low and behold I found the 6 short videos had suddenly added themselves! Videos were filmed in 2008 - one was of grand son in his baby walker being fed his tea surrounded by our dogs, grandson is now 15 years old, so I'm sure of the date! How did that happen? How did the jump across from one laptop to another, missing out a middle laptop and phone to arrive on the latest laptop?
Does this mean that my missing pictures from laptop two could be lurking somewhere? I live in hope.
Thank you for reading yet another epistle my friends. Your thoughts will be very welcome.
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I tried the usual methods to recover the files, but the disk was so corrupted I couldn't find anything.
I suggested he take it to a PC Repair shop.
They did recover all of his files and replace the hard disc with a solid state drive at a total cost of £300. Which isn't too bad.
The SSD would have cost £100+.
Also an SSD (Solid State Drive) has about 4x the life expectancy of a HDD (Hard Disk Drive) as an SSD has no moving parts to wear out.
PS As Steve mentions above, files are not deleted when you delete them. They're just marked so the Operating System knows that it can write over them.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Yes, it's certainly worth a go. Are you using Windows on laptops and phone?
So you can see that my files are being 'synced' (backed-up) to my Google account.
It's not something I setup deliberately - Sync is on by default.
It's quite likely that yours is too.
I've never lost a file (as I do a full weekly backup for that purpose), so I don't know how to restore synced files, but I'd guess it's quite straightforward.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Any thoughts on the jumping video tapes?
You can decide what to synch and what not to, but the default is all the files that you have created on your laptop - photos, videos, spreadsheets etc etc
If your videos were synched, it would be surprising if your photos weren't also.
Have you searched the entire laptop for the missing photos?
They may be hiding somewhere
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.