Game File Recovery...HELP!

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OK, I'm an idiot. I've just lost everything whilst going to back up my save file. Has anyone successfully recovered their lost file or know how to recover it?

I'm not looking for free cars or anything like that...just help retrieving my lost data. If necessary, I'll start again.

Any help here is appreciated.

If anyone needs to varify that this is genuine, I've traded with a number of people over the last couple of months.
 
If you dont have a copy of your saves on a usb stick you're done.

Good luck starting from scratch again ^^
 
Sorry to say mate but unless it's backed up on an external storage device it's gone. Unfortunately the PS3 has no recycle bin, once it's gone, it's gone.
 
Curious, I tried backing up data to thumb drive and it said the gt5 was copyright protected. How would I do this?
 
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Curious, I tried backing up data to thumb drive and it said the gt5 was copyright protected. How would I do this?
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It was copy protected until December 20th last year when patch 1.05 allowed back up saves
 
mark001 all may not be lost if you have done one very important thing. i did the exact same thing about a month ago. got to talkking to my wife while copying my save from my usb drive save back to my ps3 and accidentally hit delete instead of copy. if you did the same thing (deleted it from a flash drive) then you can recover the data. if you deleted it from your ps3 then you are screwed buddy. the second key thing is that if you did delete from your flash drive then you cant put ANYTHING else on there untill you recover what you lost. if you do fall under both categories then you need to go to thepiratebay.com and search for data recovery. it should only bring up one or two files. i grabbed the first one and installed it to my pc. plugged in my flash drive and followed the steps and was able to recover the files i deleted (there will be 5 file in aa gt5 save) but you are not done yet. once u recover the files they will not be named correctly. for example, i think that the GT5.0 file was named somethink like 0_GT. all 5 files will be renamed this way so u have to go through and manually rename each one. as soon as you do you can put it back on your flash drive and get back to racing. like i said you had to delete from your flash drive and not put anything else on it untill you do the recovery. hope this helps you out dude. it workeed for me.
 
sicmyn
mark001 all may not be lost if you have done one very important thing. i did the exact same thing about a month ago. got to talkking to my wife while copying my save from my usb drive save back to my ps3 and accidentally hit delete instead of copy. if you did the same thing (deleted it from a flash drive) then you can recover the data. if you deleted it from your ps3 then you are screwed buddy. the second key thing is that if you did delete from your flash drive then you cant put ANYTHING else on there untill you recover what you lost. if you do fall under both categories then you need to go to thepiratebay.com and search for data recovery. it should only bring up one or two files. i grabbed the first one and installed it to my pc. plugged in my flash drive and followed the steps and was able to recover the files i deleted (there will be 5 file in aa gt5 save) but you are not done yet. once u recover the files they will not be named correctly. for example, i think that the GT5.0 file was named somethink like 0_GT. all 5 files will be renamed this way so u have to go through and manually rename each one. as soon as you do you can put it back on your flash drive and get back to racing. like i said you had to delete from your flash drive and not put anything else on it untill you do the recovery. hope this helps you out dude. it workeed for me.
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Appreciate the help here. This by chance is what I'm up to now. What you've described is exactly what happened...I got distracted and hit delete instead of copy. There's a slim chance I guess.

Thanks
 
I think that you can retrieve your game files from your hard drive with the help of a third party data recovery software like Kernel for FAT and NTFS software which instantly and efficiently recovers the data from the partition of the hard drive.
 

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