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| Thread ID: 59486 | 2005-07-04 02:35:00 | Small data retrieval type of program | Bazman (6587) | Press F1 |
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| 369110 | 2005-07-04 02:35:00 | Hi, Would anyone be able to refer me to a rather small and decent data retrieval type of program? I want to see if I can extract some deleted data from an abandoned computer that I picked up from the side of the road. This computer is not the latest having no USB ports, DVD drive, and the CD Rom drive is completely screwed, can't get it to work. It does however still have a floppy drive that still functions properly. Cheers, |
Bazman (6587) | ||
| 369111 | 2005-07-04 03:12:00 | A google brings up heaps Here are some free ones, dunno if any of them are any good or not, I use a couple of commercial apps which were pretty costly www.freebyte.com You'll probably have to remove the drive and attach to another PC a slave or install a working CDROM Have to ask though, why would you want to recover deleted files which you don't know what they are from a PC you picked up at the side of the road? |
bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 369112 | 2005-07-04 03:16:00 | Well, we picked it up outside the house of a dude that we know that he's from Iraq. So you know, he may still have some intriguing information on it. And besides, there's always that sheer curiosity when you get play around with old thrown out PC's, regardless of who or where it came from. | Bazman (6587) | ||
| 369113 | 2005-07-04 03:19:00 | Well, we picked it up outside the house of a dude that we know that he's from Iraq. So you know, he may still have some intriguing information on it. And besides, there's always that sheer curiosity when you get play around with old thrown out PC's, regardless of who or where it came from. LOL, you might become a man of international mystery I'd be looking over my shoulder for a while And make sure you have wiped your prints from the PC in case our super efficient SIS do a dawn raid :lol: |
bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 369114 | 2005-07-04 03:25:00 | lol its like iraq bombs his house tryin to destroy the computer but i doubt theres anything even vaugly interesting on it or he would have like smashed the hard drive. lol | CorbinH (37) | ||
| 369115 | 2005-07-04 03:53:00 | but i doubt theres anything even vaugly interesting on it or he would have like smashed the hard drive. lolReminds me of a story. No idea if it is true. Data destruction in laptops was a real problem for the chinese army. They tried all sorts of secure delete programs and so forth, but keypress combinations to activate them were either too hard for an emergancy, or too easy and happened all the time. Not to mention secure deletes take a LONG time to run. Finally someone came up with a solution... a target painted over the HDD on the laptop with "in case of capture, shoot laptop here" written on it. I guess phsyical destruction is the fastest way to kill your data. -Qyiet |
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