Michiel

Does that also mean, that even professional 'data-recovering companie' can't get those files back from an SSD-drive?

Now I think of it, it is actually quite logical... Considering the hardware difference of the two drives (HDD and SSD) Never realised this...

Hi, Thanks, I didn't know that SSD or HD made a difference in these situations. The Drive is indeed an SSD. Does that mean that data deleted from a SSD can't be recovered? (or at least not in this way?)

Thanks for your reactions. -I copied files devided over a few sub-folders from one folder to another (on the same drive) -After the copy was ready, I unintendedly deleted the original folder with Shift+Delete. -Because during the copying some new sub-folders were created and others were merged, I couldn't easily see whether all files were copied correctly. -The plan was compare a "new" or merged sub-folder, with its original, and when the files were all there, permanently delete the original. -However, at one moment I wasn't aware that not the subfolder, but the "parent-folder" was selected. And so I permanently deleted the complet folder. On itself not a big issue, as I had allready copied its contend, however out of habit, I pressed Ctrl-z. -Because the "Shift-delete" can't be undone, Windows reverted to the latest action that could be undone, wich was The copying.... So the 'Complete original "parent-folder" was gone and the copies as well!!! I do know "Shift + Delete" wasn't my brightest choise, it was more out of a habbit, but I can't undo. (Just learn) My "Ctrl+Z" reflex, exact same story.... I was "helping?" my friend on his computer, so the files are really gone. Windows was online at that moment, and I do expect it was downloading updates in the background, which explains a lot. It even did some updates yesterday dispite I disabled Windows-Update. (I set its startup-status OFF, and never pressed 'update and shutdown/restart') Today I opened the .jpg's in a "file editor" and it's clear that the majority of code lines are gone (see picture). Only some data on camera, objective, aperture, date, etc remain.... Something I find very odd, is that all the files are almost identically damaged. Something I wouldn't expect. I actually expected, the files to be all differend affected after some overwrithing. Based on the code lines, I think it is quite fair to say these files can't be repaired... Maybe I should consult a professional recover-company... Thanks again for your reactions.

Hello, Yesterday I messed up bigtime! I accidentaly deleted a lot of pictures from a friend. (I first copied them to a new location, and after that deleted the original. So far so good, but then I accidentaly hit 'undo'. It didn't undo the deleting (cause it was pemanent) so it did undo the copying!!! And I could 're-do' because the original files where gone....!!!!#) I searched for a few minutes and then shut-down the laptop. Carefully not to install the "pending-update". At home I run recuva. At first I was trilled, because I saw it was really recovering the files from exactly the 'old' folder-locations, I had lost, and the amount of pictures was about wright!! But then all the files turned out to be corrupted. I tried to open them with; windows, photoshop, irfanview, paintshop pro, easeuse and 'Stellar'. Also I tried renaming the extention (.jpg) manually and convert them. (offline and online) But no succes! :( The message I got; "File is corrupted or to big in size" The first time recuva ran, it seemed to find all the files, but.... The second (and third and fourth, etc) time I ran recuva, it wasn't able to find the majority of the lost pictures anymore. Only the first time it saw all the ca. 1000 pictures, all following tests only showed about 120 pictures. (all still corrupt) Originally the pictures where in 2 folders. At the first runthrough recuva found the pictures in both folders, later on it only found one folder. Strange thing is that in my perception nothing on the HD changed in between the loss of the pictures and running recuva. So I dont understand why the files are all corrupted. I expected some to be corrupted, but defenitely not all, because there was no HD-writing afterwards. I also dont understand why recuva could find all files at first, but not later on. I hope someone has any ideas on how this could happen... (I purposely didn't run the updates at shutdown) And I hope someone has any advise on how I can try to 'repair' those corrupted files..., or a way to retreive them otherways. I did use recuva as a portable app, to prevent overwriting. Greetings and thanks in advance, Michiel