Focusv8 - when i do what you say... it brings up all 1152 music files..... but then i click on the 'go to folder option' next to each file, it brings me up the message:

The following file cannot be found: This may happen if you deleted or moved the file.

 

Deleting the files and emptying the recycle bin marks the areas that were used as FREE in the TOC (Table of contents) or index to the disk. The actual files are still on the disk until something overwrites them - You downloaded a file to try and get them back but where did it go? By the sound of it into areas that were marked as FREE in the disk index! End of story and files.

Cheers, TommysKeeper

 

poo

 

Calling Jim Galbally. You are needed here Jim - NOW

 

 

if u can do it i it works loet me know as i could do wiv doin it myself

 

Ria, after you have done the search for the files with the .mp3 extention, you say you can see all 1152 music files right? But can't go to the folder cos it doesn't exist?

Can you try something for me. Do the search again, and when it lists the mp3's, can you right click on one, select COPY and then go to your desktop and paste it. Let me know if it pastes onto the desktop. If it does, try playing it.

If it pastes, and plays, go back, highlight ALL 1152 mp3's, copy them all, then paste them into a new folder on the desktop (lets call it "Maria Music She Thought She Lost" shall we? ) and see if they all play.

If they do, hurrah. If you can't do any of the above, sorry hun, I'm all out of idea's....

 

maria, what generation ipod got, if its anything older then the current one, i have a program which will let you copy the music back from the ipod to your pc.

alsp i wouldnt try recovering any data of that drive while the o/s is still being used from it, best bet remove hard disk and if your really desperate i can try and recover the data for you, no charge

thx

 

also doesnt itunes convert any mp3 to aac ??

 

Thrush... no honey... wont let me do it! Thank you anyway!

RANJ - most of the music i had, was just on my laptop and not actually on my iphone honey!

I think im just gonna have to spend a day, and a small fortune, getting the songs back i want!

 

RANJ - I'm guessing the music is from her iPhone, and I've already sorted her with a program to copy the music off it.

As for iTunes converting to AAC, only if you set this option in iTunes preferences. Otherwise it won't and uses the existing MP3's...

 

Maria,
Just a side comment...
If you have deleted your files then as they have been marked as free space, any recovery program you use has less chance of getting them back the longer your PC is in use as windows continuously writes and moves files around !

 

Thrush - i have the songs from my phone on my itunes still... its the songs i DIDNT have on my iphone and in my 'music' folder that i have lost.

Simon - really? even bigger poo!

 

Did my idea not work? Similar thing happened with the wives iTunes

 

I bit the bullet and paid for this when I lost all my photos/music etc. It found them all, but the odd one or two seemed corrupt.

http://www.data-recovery-software.net/

 

Ria - I thought that would probably be the case - I guessed you wouldn't be daft enough to simply not copy them back if you had an external backup on your iPhone

But did you try what I posted above?

 

Dvid - im gonna try that tomorrow as im now off to sleepies!

Thrush - yeah i tried, and didnt work!

Fastyguy - failing everything else i may have to resprt to that!

 

I used system restore recently on vista 64 and it restored files i had deleted....

Don't know if that been tried as i couldn't be fucked reading the entire thread

 

i have used a nice piece of software maria that "usually" does a good job! i can send you a link over PM if you like. see if it works?

 

Can i just say a massive big thank you to JamesG - he sent me a disc which did just the job!

Took a while for me to suss it out but i got there in the end!

I had a little help from a friend who is a tad more computer literate than me!

So thank you James! i managed to recover about 700 songs!!!

 

you can do it in DOS or cmd aswell.