Milind, I don’t know whether I mentioned this, but there are softwares that can retrieve files from crashed hard drives. Some of them are free, but the good ones come at a small cost (roughly 1,200 to 1,600 rupees). One of my flash drives had crashed once, and I was able to retrieve all my pictures with the help of the software that I used (Photorescue). It was very easy.
If you still have your crashed hard drive, perhaps you can try to get your pictures back this way. It is painful to lose any butterfly pictures. Good luck. Krushnamegh. ________________________________ From: milind bhakare <[email protected]> Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:56:30 -0500 To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Photo of Year 2010 after a massive setback of loosing a 500gb harddrive with almost all the butterflywork of 2 years including a few wonderful lifecycles , am recovering faster , thanks to my friends Hemant Ogale, Ravi bhambure,Gaurav agavekar,Rohan lovalekar, Rakesh deulkar,Abhishek narvekar,Aditya kashirsagar,Swapnil pawar,Ruturaj patil who helped me with some wonderful butterflying outings. i also must thank my friend Peter smetacek for all that useful guidance ,discussions and encouragement. finally thank you Krishnamegh for answering all those fullish queries .THANKS BUTTERFLYINDIA ! wish you all a very happy new year full of active butterflying ......here are a few of my beloved pics ........milind bhakare ________________________________ From: Vijay Barve <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Mon, December 27, 2010 4:40:58 AM Subject: [ButterflyIndia] Photo of Year 2010 Dear Friends, As per every year, we will post Photo of the Year 2010 and later compile and share on Internet the whole set. The guidelines on how to post "Photo of the Year 2010" are posted at http://diversityindia.org/photoofyear.php Image achieves of last Photo of the Year are listed on the page. So start digging into your achieves and posting images. Regards, Vijay -- --- Vijay Vasant Barve http://diversityindia.org/ --- -- Enjoy

