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| Thread ID: 79109 | 2007-05-08 10:36:00 | Urgent Data Recovery | george12 (7) | Press F1 |
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| 548280 | 2007-05-08 10:36:00 | Hi, 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. Easy. She told me I could keep the desktop, which I did. 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. No call came, so I wiped it and put Windows XP on. Now, she has called me from rarotonga with the news that two years worth of vital e-mails are/were on that computer and weren't copied over. I really want to help her, but data recovery is not my area of expertise. So I need advice on how to proceed. Installing windows is the only thing I did, and it was a quick NTFS format using Windows setup. Professional data recovery MAY be an option but I'd rather leave that alone for now. It's a 60GB hard drive. Tools that don't cost money are preferable at first but I expect that she will be willing to part with cash if necessary. Thanks in advance. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 548281 | 2007-05-08 11:29:00 | I used this (www.cgsecurity.org) today. I thought I had made a backup of the data but in my haste I had backed up the data to a second partition rather than my usb hdd! :eek: The drive was originally partitioned into two drives and I repartitioned it to one drive and did a quick format and installed XP. It worked great. It searched the drive and found the original partitions and I told it to restore them. It would not boot off the drive but I could get all the data off that I needed by putting the drive into another computer. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 548282 | 2007-05-08 11:30:00 | freeware and not bad either: www.pcinspector.de best to slave the drive to a different pc and run it from the 'master' pc..... |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 548283 | 2007-05-08 11:40:00 | Thanks I found PC Inspector and ran it, it wanted to take 2311 minutes though so I will run it in the morning all day. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 548284 | 2007-05-08 11:51:00 | All tomorrow and Thursday, you might get the result Friday. Why not start now? After all 2311 minutes is about 38.5 hours so you may as well get on with it. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 548285 | 2007-05-08 14:29:00 | 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 |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 548286 | 2007-05-08 14:51:00 | Im sure this was just recently covered in a thread? SpinRite is the go! So is the INSERT Rescue CD. Comes with partition table recovery stuff & more too... works with FAT / NTFS partitions too :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 548287 | 2007-05-08 14:58:00 | ummmmm...........spinrite isn't really a data recovery program .....not as far as I was aware anyway it aint cheap either....... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 548288 | 2007-05-08 15:00:00 | lol ok ooops a very quick look at grc.com confirms it IS a data recovery prog....duh......ok but at US$89 i'd be trying one of the MANY freebies out there first....... |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 548289 | 2007-05-08 18:59:00 | I used this (www.cgsecurity.org) today.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. | Greg (193) | ||
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