Image recovery

[fbg40]

I use an external HD to store images and music. Stupidly, I managed to delete my photos from this HD just as I'd bought a new PC.( I had already formatted the HD on my old PC). I have tried Bad Copy Pro and Image Recall to recover these pics, but the progs also picks up the pics from the album covers as jpg extensions. (There are lots of them !) Does anybody know a way around this ? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
fbg40

[vehelpfulguy]

Never trust a hard drive.

Always back up important files to CD or DVD.

You have just learned this lesson.

[LeMarchand]

You could also try:

Isobuster: http://www.isobuster.com/

Restoration: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

or other free tools (what have you got to lose?): http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/system/fwdat arecovery.html

[fbg40]

Vehelpfulguy - thanks for stating the obvious
LeMarchand - many thanks for your kind help.
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