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Thread ID: 79109	2007-05-08 10:36:00	Urgent Data Recovery	george12 (7)	Press F1

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548290	2007-05-08 19:46:00	I can't help you re: data recovery, but I do find this interesting... I did a repair job a few weeks ago - a lady had bought a new laptop and was moving to Rarotonga, and not taking here old desktop PC with her. So I was to move all her stuff over to the laptop. Tools that don't cost money are preferable at first but I expect that she will be willing to part with cash if necessary.Why should she be parting with the cash, it was your screw-up (by not transferring the emails) :confused:	Myth (110)
548291	2007-05-08 20:47:00	I wouldn't recommend a site or any programme like that which made out to be an informative and valid source. It's mimiking Wikipedia to add false validity to itself. I've seen a lot of sites do that. I don't really care what the site is like anyway. The program worked as it said and I got my data back and it didn't cost a cent. :thumbs:	CYaBro (73)
548292	2007-05-08 21:50:00	Getdataback suggests around 1 hour per 50G is about right for the initial check of what's recoverable. Maybe you should splash out while the NZ-US $ rate is favourable.	PaulD (232)
548293	2007-05-09 04:12:00	I have tried Recover My Files and think it is better than Getdataback in the older version, not sure the new version.	lightfoot (39)
548294	2007-05-09 04:24:00	I can't help you re: data recovery, but I do find this interesting... Why should she be parting with the cash, it was your screw-up (by not transferring the emails) :confused: Because whenever I do anything involving backups, the agreement is that I am not responsible for data loss. If I didn't have that clause I could be liable for thousands of dollars if I missed something vital from an obscure location on the hard drive. Formatting is always a risk. In this case I did transfer the e-mails from the standard store location, but she had old e-mails stored in another location that I didn't notice. At the same time, to minimise the risk of data loss I keep a backup of the entire hard drive for an agreed amount of time. Our agreement was that she would tell me by the end of the week if anything was missing and I could just take it off the hard drive. It was more than two weeks later that she called. I am working on the recovery for free, but I'm not paying for professional data recovery.	george12 (7)
548295	2007-05-09 04:25:00	It was finished when I got home today, but as someone pointed out it only recovers a few select types of file. I am running a more advanced program now.	george12 (7)
548296	2007-05-09 04:27:00	hm.........that's an extreme length of time...... ah.....sorry just checked that prog is only good for recovery of image files try this one instead it's very quick: www.softperfect.com This one only recovers undeleted files, these have been formatted over.	george12 (7)
548297	2007-05-09 05:47:00	I told her I would wait till the end of the week before formatting, and that if she found anything to be missing, give me a call. A week is nowhere near long enough to discover that files may be missing. I always inform people their data will be held for a month then actually keep it for three months because you can almost guarantee this sort of thing will happen soon afterwards otherwise. :( Good luck and next time, don't be in such a hurry.	FoxyMX (5)
548298	2007-05-09 06:36:00	Or just do what I do and make an Old Data folder on their new computer and copy everything from the old computer into it. With the size of HDDs these days it's not a problem. Then I will copy over their documents, emails and any other data they can think of (at the time :)) to the right locations on the new computer. Then I tell them about the Old Data folder and that THEY can delete it if they feel they don't need it any more. I can't then be blamed for any lost or missing data if they have deleted the Old Data folder.	CYaBro (73)
548299	2007-05-09 06:49:00	Or just do what I do and make an Old Data folder on their new computer and copy everything from the old computer into it. With the size of HDDs these days it's not a problem. Then I will copy over their documents, emails and any other data they can think of (at the time :)) to the right locations on the new computer. Then I tell them about the Old Data folder and that THEY can delete it if they feel they don't need it any more. I can't then be blamed for any lost or missing data if they have deleted the Old Data folder. I do it that way if the hard drive is big enough, this was a 60GB onto a 40GB. And yes, a week isn't a long time - she said to keep it for a week, not me, but next time I will always keep data for at least a month, it's a good policy to have.	george12 (7)
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