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Offline jocrp6

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help with data recovery
« on: January 23, 2012, 08:05:37 AM »
   I just cant belive this, I've been on a super nice rig for three years now, and my Seahag decides to get on a (don't trust you) kick and just slap jacked up my comp looking for something trhats not there!  In a perfect world that would truly be a gunbutt to the forehead for that!  so much about my love life! lol.
   I cant do a restore or back up recovery or nothing!  installed W-7 to do a repair or up-grade on itself and it ended up just running it.  I was up till 2:00 morn to get it this far, have not looked in any folders for pic's yet. and thats my concern. when I get home and theres not any pics in folders whats the best recovery method for getting them back? dadburnit I had everything backed up and Ghrrrr gonna punch her in the mouth when get home!   Misfire out,
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Offline Rob52240

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Re: help with data recovery
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2012, 12:47:50 PM »
If you can't do it yourself it's probably going to be expensive.

I had to look into data recovery for most of my clients during our floods a few years back.  

Cheapest estimate I got was over $600 per drive.
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Re: help with data recovery
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2012, 01:05:37 PM »
went home for lunch and checked folder's, there was a folder that said (old windows)  but it did'nt even have half of my fotos, any body recomend a recover software?
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Offline Bizman

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Re: help with data recovery
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2012, 01:23:05 PM »
PC Inspector File Recovery is free and works well with accidentally deleted files, capable even to find old folder structures and original file names. One last note: Don't ever run anything, not even Windows on the drive you're exploring or you'll keep overwriting what you're trying to save. - Testdisk is another good tool, but it finds files by type and gives them only a number for a name.
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Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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Re: help with data recovery
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2012, 05:48:40 PM »
Quote from: Bizman on January 23, 2012, 01:23:05 PM
One last note: Don't ever run anything, not even Windows on the drive you're exploring or you'll keep overwriting what you're trying to save. -

I think he already did a new windows install on the disk.

If the disk would have been left without writing a tool like r-studio could have recovered all the data. It may still do so partly but the more data is written on the disk the smaller is the chance of recovering anything.

Buy and install a new hard drive, install W7 on it and use the data recovery tool to recover data to the new harddrive. Or kiss your data goodbye.
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Re: help with data recovery
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2012, 06:51:24 PM »
Hi Misfire, check your PM..
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Re: help with data recovery
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2012, 06:54:24 AM »
just copy all the stuff you need over from your backups.
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Re: help with data recovery
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2012, 12:49:29 PM »
Quote from: RTHolmes on January 24, 2012, 06:54:24 AM
just copy all the stuff you need over from your backups.

You think he has backups? :) Lucky him if he's the exception to the rule.
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