In my last job I used to travel quite a bit during the week. I generally stayed in chain hotels as the company had a max limit that wasn't too much, and to be honest it meant I could build up loyalty points I could use on my own time to try and keep my partner happy
One time I was sent to a part of the country that didn't have the chain I normally stayed in, so after a bit of googling I found a “country manor” type of B&B (bed and breakfast) / mini hotel that wasn't too expensive. The hotel room was quite rustic, so lots of little hiding areas. Essentially it was a converted Georgian or Victorian (I'm not English so neither know nor care what the difference in architecture is) mansion run by some elderly people.
Halfway through my stay I noticed a small portable hard drive tucked into one of the night stands. Being the curios person I am I booted up one of the laptops that I had with me to see what was on it. Alas it was formatted with what ever system MacOS uses so I had to spend several hours on a poor 3G connection trying to find some drivers for Linux to mount the damn thing.
Eventually I got access to the drive and as I was flicking through it I noticed that there were some naked pictures on it. They were of a woman (not the hottest) modelling for some medial type pics, fully nude and only slightly trimmed. I initially assumed that this was for some course material as there were other documents about the type of medical things going on in the pictures. How right and wrong was I! It turns out that the woman in the pictures, after a bit of investigation, was one of the directors and the ex wife of the guy in the training videos on the drive. I can not find any nude pics on their official site, but her picture and his is there. There were other non nude family pics of both of them on the drive, along with some letters from her when they were going through their divorce.
And that is where it should have ended, but it didn't......
I decided to run some freeware forensics tools when I got home from my main pc and hit the motherload!
After a two hour scan of the drive I turned up pics of his new girlfriend. His new girlfriend that likes to dress in very hot lingerie. His new girlfriend that likes to dress as a sl*tty schoolgirl. His new girlfriend that likes to give blowjobs on camera! Again, he is in the pics with her and there are lots of “normal” pics of them going on holidays, rock climbing etc so they are not downloads from the internet.
I doubt I will upload them anywhere, but this is a sample of both women. No need to guess who the new lady in his life is.
tldr; some guy left a hard drive in a hotel room with pics of his ex wife naked, and “deleted” pics of his current lady giving him a blowjob, nude pics including naked outdoors and having sex with him that I was able to retrieve.
PS Sorry for the long intro, I wanted to try and set the scene as to why room service had not found the drive before I arrived.
PPS: The recovery software I used was hxxp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoRec I am not sure how it performs under Windows, but under Linux it was as simple as executing it and letting it dectect the drive you want to recover. It will then ask where you want to store the data. It will need a good bit of space, depending on the size of the drive you are recovering from.