Can I recover my deleted fotos?

[Nia]

I accidentaly deleted some pictures I took, without checking to see if I had them on cd first. Now, I deleted them with Steganos Shredder and I tried to recover them with PC Inspector File Recovery, but it didn't work. I was also ordering a printout of them with this program from an internet store. The order was also deleted accidentaly, but it wasn't deleted with the shredder. I also saved the order on another harddrive, but couldn't recover those files either.  Are my files lost forever? Please help, I really need to get those pics back!

[guestolo]

I would suspect that they are going to be hard to recover
I usually recommend using PC Inspector File Recovery
But since you used a Shredding program to remove them
Chances are they're gone for good
Files are gone when normally deleted, a program such as PC Inspectore can recover them because the area on the disk has not been overwritten yet
but with a shredding program
It would of probably overwrote the area that the photos were at a few times to ensure you can't restore them

There are high priced services that may be able to recover them
But I mean high priced
You actually have to bring your harddrive into them

Keep in mind, the more you use the computer, the chances of recovery go down even further
You will overwrite the area again where the photos were stored

Personally, I would consider it a learning experience and ensure to Always backup important files and folders

You can try this program, I haven't used it before
See if it will help, but I doubt it
If possible, run it from a USB thumbdrive or similiar
http://www.recovermyfiles.com/?file=RecoverMyFiles-Setup.exe
It's free to try and scan your computer
If the photos are recoverable, you will have to purchase it however

Here's another free product, Restoration
Again, I don't think it will restore the photos though
http://www.aumha.org/freeware/freeware.php#restore

[Nia]

I tried but I didn't get anything. Thanks for helping anyway. I thought I had saved the pics on disc, but it turns out I only saved half of the pics I wanted to. Well, at least I'll be more careful next time http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />. The thing is,the programs did find *much* older pics, like from last year,  but not the ones I recently deleted. Weird huh?

Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it.