I had placed about 50 very special photographs in a folder within "My Photos" and was working on them in Photoshop. I had an apparent Registry error which would not allow me to boot the system. I finally had to "roll-back" to an earlier date, which was just before I loaded the pictures. Now they are nowhere to be found. Any ideas on how I might recover them? Any help would be appreciated.Steven R. Otto

From your backup, of course. Use Recuva to dig into content of disk http://www.piriform.com/recuva Regards Milos

Hi, You could undo system restore and check if you could boot into safe mode, this would be give you a chance to retrieve your data. Undo System Restore http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Undo-System-Restore Alex Zhao TechNet Subscriber Support If you are TechNet Subscription user and have any feedback on our support quality, please send your feedback here.Alex Zhao TechNet Community Support

The "roll-back" was accomplished through Roll-Back by Siber systems...my system will allow for a system restore, but will not let me leave the restore point to refer back to. So, I rolled back to 2 days before the pictures were placed, which was the first day the system would actually boot up to. Now they are nowhere to be found. I did try the tip above about Recuva, but no look finding them with that. Any other ideas? Any help appreciated.Steven R. Otto

System Restore should not have touched your data. It only restores system files like registry entries and drivers. Download Everything Search and use it to search for your photos. Its a much more comprehensive file search engine and if your photos are on your PC, it will find them. Try searching for both the folder name and one of the photo titles. Jerry

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System already set for "show hidden" so no change to problemSteven R. Otto

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I located a prior snapshot, but no way to mount it and see if pictures can then be recovered and backed upSteven R. Otto

Nobody with novel idea?Steven R. Otto

What is the format of the snapshot? VHD or something else?Thanks Zero Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Any update?Thanks Zero Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

I think you may contact the application vendor to check how to recover the files from the image since we have no idea about how it backs up the disk. Thanks.Thanks Zero Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Not sure....Roll back basically images the hard drive as a snapshot.Steven R. Otto

I think you may contact the application vendor to check how to recover the files from the image since we have no idea about how it backs up the disk. Thanks.Thanks Zero Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.