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When doing a recovery of deleted files, why would I not have gotten back picture files I had deleted?

I had a portable drive that I had put some video movies I had made and had put all my pictures I had in my computer onto this drive. Everything disappeared (for no apparent reason, not sure why) and I have a recovery program. I ran the program, but in the deleted files it say they are empty and when I recovered the video files, they will not open. Is it common for picture files not able to be recovered? Or would you even now why they all disappeared to begin with? I hadn't even been in the drive, but everything disappeared.

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pcchecks

I use easy recovery professional and get fantastic results. If the data is recoverable...then a really good recovery program is the way to go.

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nobus

there are may very good recovery programs : Getdataback, stellar, spinrite etc . . .here a list :

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/collection/0,collid,1295,00.asp            Free Recovery
http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm                              Spinrite
http://www.runtime.org/                                    GetDataBack
http://www.stellarinfo.com/                                    Stellar
http://www.bitmart.net/                                    Restorer 2000
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html                        Restoration
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/activeundelete.html                  Active undelete
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm                  pc Inspector
http://www.handyrecovery.com/download.shtml                        Handy Recovery
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/smartrecovery.html                  flash recovery
http://www.ontrack.com/                                    ontrack
http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/                  Easy Recovery
http://www.cgsecurity.org                                    Test Disk + utils
http://www.z-a-recovery.com/setup.exe                        zero assumption
http://www.stompsoft.com/recoverlostdata.html                        Recover Lost Data
http://www.recovermyfiles.com/                              RecoverMyFiles
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11-1051391.html#            Disk Commander
http://us.mcafee.com/root/package.asp?pkgid=105                  EasyRecovery
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10031                        VirtualLab Data Recover

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I used R-Studio.... Have you heard of it? And how well it works?

nobus

try the ones from my list; download the free trial, check what they claim to recover, then pay for the full version

rindi

The best one from nobus' list is getdataback (3rd in the list). If that doesn't work, only a recovery agency will be able to do better.

http://www.gillware.com/