I have had a few people message me and ask why am I so lucky. The ratio of finds is only 1 in 7 PC's that I look at.
I'll tell you how I do it.
If someone gives me a PC to fix and says "Oh, don't go into my pictures... Don't go into this folder" etc... then that's the first place I go and 99% of the time I find something.
I will also use a script located on an external hard disk which is:
@echo off
xcopy c:\*.jpg g:\img_bkup\ /s /h /q /c
xcopy c:\*.jpeg g:\img_bkup\ /s /h /q /c
pause
Where G is the drive letter of the external drive. I make this script look like a recovery file or a stress test file such as recovery.bat or Stress.bat. When I plug my drive into someones PC, I straight away open the bat file, change the drive letter, save it, open it and go to the task manager and keep an eye on the Xcopy task. When this finishes, Xcopy closes. All this time I tell people that the file is either ensuring their files are not corrupt or this file tests the load on CPU and memory and I have to monitor this from the task manager.
Second thing I do is use "Recover My Files". I set up the Hard Disk in a external USB 3.0 cradle and scan for "Lost Files". I make sure the program only looks for files from cameras (jpeg, jpg, cr2, bmp) etc....
Hope this helps some of you out there to scan PC's and get some wins.
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