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Why is restore previous version not available?

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You have to enable Windows to save older versions of your files. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't have this setting turned on.

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Why would the filenames likely be destroyed?

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The internal bit of the hard drive where the file name was stored has been written over too many times.

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I had formatted my laptop before 6 months and lost all the partition with containing its data. With a new partition I had created only one drive, so I want all my previous partition with data. How do I do this?

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You can't, because it's overwritten. There is no trace of the old files. If you have some kind of backup, you may recover them, but if you don`t you are out of luck.

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Can overwritten jpeg files be recovered?

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Yes. Just open the image in a picture editor software, like Paint for Windows, click on "Save as" and then set the desired format.

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