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

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548300	2007-05-09 10:57:00	I do as CYABro does. In your situation, its kinda difficult thou, cant say I envy you ;) Ive been there before, the place I was working for at the time purchased Spinrite. Worth it if your business-budget can stretch that far :)	Chilling_Silence (9)
548301	2007-05-09 12:46:00	I do as CYABro does. In your situation, its kinda difficult thou, cant say I envy you ;) Ive been there before, the place I was working for at the time purchased Spinrite. Worth it if your business-budget can stretch that far :) Steve (Bletch) has given me a tool that should do the trick. I will run that over night, and it should do the same job as Spinrite (hopefully). I'm never keen on spending $110ish on software :(	george12 (7)
548302	2007-05-09 18:46:00	Steve (Bletch) has given me a tool that should do the trick. I will run that over night, and it should do the same job as Spinrite (hopefully). I'm never keen on spending $110ish on software :(I do wonder if Bletch will share the name of said tool for others ?? :D I think I might have to look at such software, jussssssssst in case ;) Addition: I'd also be interested to know what 'guru Metla' and other full-time techs use for data recovery in such cases ... Metla especially usually has some little gem application stored away for things like this :)	Myth (110)
548303	2007-05-10 11:17:00	I do wonder if Bletch will share the name of said tool for others ?? :D I think I might have to look at such software, jussssssssst in case ;) Addition: I'd also be interested to know what 'guru Metla' and other full-time techs use for data recovery in such cases ... Metla especially usually has some little gem application stored away for things like this :) It's called Stellar Phoenix, but I have given up on it as it's crashed four times in a row, a different way every time. 1) It closed randomly 2) It locked up the whole PC 3) It spontaneously rebooted the PC 4) Blank screen, unresponsive when I came home after letting it run	george12 (7)
548304	2007-05-10 13:11:00	Try Disk Investigator, google will find the download and you get it for free trial for a month. It will search raw disk data and display a list of cluster numbers containing the key word searched for so if you search for an email address it should find any instances of it that have not been overwritten. HTH	jinja_thom (4306)
548305	2007-05-10 13:14:00	You could ask her if she'd be willing to assist with SpinRite?	Chilling_Silence (9)
548306	2007-05-14 06:02:00	I've tried Spinrite, and I get the impression that it's hard drive (eg sector) recovery not file recovery. All it did was repair "ambiguous" sectors. Any other suggestions? I have a guy who wants to buy it so I need to get this sorted.	george12 (7)
548307	2007-05-14 06:12:00	It's all very well recovering files, or even sectors. Emails are likely to be in a database, and not easily readable. Up to W98 at least, I think, there was a useful DOS command "unformat" which sometimes worked in "Oh dear" situations like this. Has this survived the improvements in subsequent Windows versions?	Graham L (2)
548308	2007-05-14 06:27:00	Maybe you should list all the programs you've tried.	PaulD (232)
548309	2007-05-14 06:50:00	I don't quite follow you Graham. I just need the .dbx files Outlook Express uses, with them I'm sorted. Really I would be quite happy with the one file, Inbox.dbx. Paul, I've tried: Spinrite PC Inspector File Recovery (only does certain file types, but found those file types easily) Stellar Phoenix (crashes after running for 3 or so hours, it does find stuff first though Power data recovery - found plenty, but it's a demo version and I have to pay to actually recover anything. Smart data recovery - only finds deleted files (not formatted over ones)	george12 (7)
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