HELP! -- I Deleted Christmas

[mblanton]

Too make a long story short I got a new hard drive for christmas and in the process of installing it, I deleted the active partition on my old hard drive which contained alot of photos that I had not backed-up (specifically christmas). The only good news is that I had uploaded them to my website. So I retreived all the pictures, but they have been resized for the web. Here are the specific details of an image:

IMAGE SIZE
PIXEL DIMENSIONS 1.22M
WIDTH 800 pixels
HEIGHT 533 pixels

DOCUMENT SIZE
WIDTH 11.111 inches
HEIGHT 7.403 inches
RESOLUTION 72 pixels/inch

Here is a link to the photo I am talking about:

http://www.pbase.com/mblanton/image/37866412

I desperately need to salvage this photo. Everyone wants 8x10 prints of it because their are 4 generations of family members in it. Can anyone help??? Please???

Mike

[Ikinaa]

If you erased the partition and reinstalled the OS on the very same partition, I guess you have absolutely no chance to get the picture back, even with some of the powerful undelete/disc-recovery tool. But give it a try anyway, who knows...

As for the resized picture, have you tried printing it already? How did it come out...? will anyone notice? Just try.

Otherwise try to get hold of a tool, that resizes pictures with interpolation. I think I've read somewhere that stock-photo-agencies or newspaper use these tools to enlarge pictures. Of course you can't put information you have, but they add pixels bases on some calculation done which makes the resized picture look good.

[ByteTheBullet]

Need more info. As stated above, if you repartitioned, reformated, and then installed an OS or such you may be out of luck. If you deleted the partition or simply deleted the files and have not re-written to the drive there is a better than good chance you can recover the files.



ByteTheBullet (-:

[Hellashot]

You may be able to pay for the service of data recovery specialists to retrieve your data. It may be costly however $200+, but just a guess.

[gillyworld]

I did exactly the same thing about a year ago. I bought R-Studio which recovered about 95% of all my pictures. It will recover even after a format and will even recover from areas that have not been overwritten. Its available as a trial download which will tell you what is recoverable but you can't actually recover without a licence
http://www.r-studio.com/

Alan

[Matoch]

Whatever you do stop using the computer. The more read and writes to the Hard drive the less likely you will be able to recover the files.

I actually wiped my drive re-installed the OS and used it for 2 months before I realized I lost something.

I used EZ Recovery Pro and was able to get back most of my stuff.

Hopefully you will have the same luck I have.

James