cowboyup
Well-known member
It's been a LONG time since posting and instead of ranting about my anxiety/depression/SA issues, I am in dire need of any computer help here
Here's the story: We went on a hiking trip to AZ and I took a ton of photos of the kids, family, nature. When we got home, I popped in the SD card from the computer and immediately transferred photos to my desktop where I then put them onto a flash drive. OK, I know that the SD card is fine. However, I really, REALLY screwed up regarding the flash drive. I admit it. :shyness:
I got a *good deal* on a 128 gb on a popular website and thought, holy cow...AWESOME! Yeah...NO.
So...long story short: the effing cheap-o crap flash drive ate my pics and docs.
Lesson learned.
Now the aftermath of my stupidity...I freaked of course, losing all the photos and some docs I had in Word. I immediately searched and found Wondershare and Recuva and bought both programs...hmmm..another dumbass move on my part-well, that's why I am here.
I could have bought 1 program but nooo, why stop there when one doesn't work just buy another one...
so now I have the 'recovered' files, photos sitting on my computer but cannot open any of the pictures or documents. When I go to open in the picture viewer in Windows 8.1 (the default picture opener I guess) it tells me that the file is corrupt, too big or can not view.
So, now what??? I have googled the problem, but I can't figure it out. :kickingmyself::kickingmyself:
So, am I totally screwed and just chalk it up to a big lesson learned or is there still hope?
Thanks in advance my good people :thumbup:
*thinking to myself of all the *why didn't I...*
ugh....
Here's the story: We went on a hiking trip to AZ and I took a ton of photos of the kids, family, nature. When we got home, I popped in the SD card from the computer and immediately transferred photos to my desktop where I then put them onto a flash drive. OK, I know that the SD card is fine. However, I really, REALLY screwed up regarding the flash drive. I admit it. :shyness:
I got a *good deal* on a 128 gb on a popular website and thought, holy cow...AWESOME! Yeah...NO.
So...long story short: the effing cheap-o crap flash drive ate my pics and docs.
Lesson learned.
Now the aftermath of my stupidity...I freaked of course, losing all the photos and some docs I had in Word. I immediately searched and found Wondershare and Recuva and bought both programs...hmmm..another dumbass move on my part-well, that's why I am here.
I could have bought 1 program but nooo, why stop there when one doesn't work just buy another one...
so now I have the 'recovered' files, photos sitting on my computer but cannot open any of the pictures or documents. When I go to open in the picture viewer in Windows 8.1 (the default picture opener I guess) it tells me that the file is corrupt, too big or can not view.
So, now what??? I have googled the problem, but I can't figure it out. :kickingmyself::kickingmyself:
So, am I totally screwed and just chalk it up to a big lesson learned or is there still hope?
Thanks in advance my good people :thumbup:
*thinking to myself of all the *why didn't I...*
ugh....