My mom's boss overwrote some pictures on his laptop. I know how to recover deleted photos from a flash card that haven't been overwritten yet, but am not sure the best way to do so if they've been overwritten (if they have on this case, I'm not sure), weather on card or hard disk. I hear fairly often that it is possible, which is why they make wipe programs and such. I've even heard of people destroying their old HDD's since data can be recovered even after being wiped and formatted. Should he send it to someone that does data recovery?
Here's what he did:
"...took pictures on his recent trip, downloaded to his laptop while he was there so he could take more pictures.
When he got home he viewed all the pictures, then he put the ones from his camera into another folder. Then he created a folder called 'vacation' to combine both folders. However, the first pictures he'd downloaded into a folder and 2nd group in the other folder must have had the same file names, because when he tried to move them both into one folder he got a message that he had duplicate files and did he want to replace them. He said yes, and ended up losing the first set of pictures. Do you know of anyway he can recover these files from either his camera card or his laptop?"
Here's what he did:
"...took pictures on his recent trip, downloaded to his laptop while he was there so he could take more pictures.
When he got home he viewed all the pictures, then he put the ones from his camera into another folder. Then he created a folder called 'vacation' to combine both folders. However, the first pictures he'd downloaded into a folder and 2nd group in the other folder must have had the same file names, because when he tried to move them both into one folder he got a message that he had duplicate files and did he want to replace them. He said yes, and ended up losing the first set of pictures. Do you know of anyway he can recover these files from either his camera card or his laptop?"