i got back a bunch of stuff (no where near what was lost) but first off some of the pictures and aim logs dont show up, there their one pic is 154.32Kb but it wont show a picture and the program gave me a 1.99Gb file in this format "RÞß File" what is that thing? and i know the pics should work cuz other pics came back and i can see them its just this one folder of stuff.
To recover data from a hard drive, i've had great success with Getdata back from Runtime. http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-downloads.htm Depends if you have ntfs or fat formatted hd, to see which one you will download. let me know if you need any help getting a full version of this app.
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