07-17-2006, 08:38 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Originally Posted by Nufy
I messed up yesterday while trying to re-install XP onto my home puter.
All the windows directories got deleted and that included about 2 gig worth of family pictures.
The wife is ****ed and I'm not too impressed with myself either.
I need a recommendation on some file recovery software / service to try and get at least some of these pic back.
Please help...........
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Look up, way up, and i'll call Rusty.
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07-17-2006, 09:00 AM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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I don't recall the name of the program I used, but it offered a free trial. The trial allowed me to see what file names it could find. Then it wanted $100 US to be able to recover the files.
The person who wanted their hard drive recovered decided it wasn't worth the money, so I never bought the program.
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07-17-2006, 09:05 AM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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I assume you've sucessfully reinstalled Windows? If so, the files may still be there, but I would highly recommend not installing any other software. A good undelete program may be able to recover the files, but I would probably say to take the computer to someone who knows what they're doing; they should take the hard drive out and connect it to another machine to try and recover the files.
If no full format was done (ie just a "quick format" on install), an uninstall untility should be able to recover the files assuming they haven't been overwritten yet.
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07-17-2006, 09:08 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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It will also depend upon how you have the drive set up. NTFS or FAT32.
An uninstall program may work; if not, a data recovery place may have a (slim) chance.
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07-17-2006, 09:16 AM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Agreed, if the undelete program doesn't work then a data recovery place may have a better chance. Just make sure to NOT use the drive that's being recovered to boot and install the undelete program to; put that drive in another computer or put in a temporary hard drive to boot from to run the undelete program from and undelete the files to.
http://www.undelete.com/file-recovery.asp
There's a trial of one, haven't used it but the company's other software is ok.
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07-17-2006, 09:27 AM
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: san diego
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http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm
i used this to successfully recover about 40gigs of mp3's after accidentally formatting over their partition. i was also reinstalling windows xp at the time. i think your chances are pretty good.
you can use the demo for free to see if your files are recoverable.
Last edited by badnarik; 07-17-2006 at 09:30 AM.
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07-17-2006, 09:29 AM
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TXS Guys.
Keep em coming.
I got a bootable CD with a recovery program from the IT guru here at work.
I'll try it tonight and see.
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07-17-2006, 09:46 AM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by badnarik
http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm
i used this to successfully recover about 40gigs of mp3's after accidentally formatting over their partition. i was also reinstalling windows xp at the time. i think your chances are pretty good.
you can use the demo for free to see if your files are recoverable.
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Agree with this one too, I used this once before and it worked very well. I couldn't remember what it was called though.
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07-17-2006, 02:18 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: I don't belong here
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My buddy's computer crashed on him and he lost all of his family photos, all of his business' financial info and other important files. It cost him over $300 to get everything restored, and not everything was able to be recovered.
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07-17-2006, 02:25 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Yeah, given how cheap hard drives are I don't know why more computers aren't sold with a default mirrored drive setup. Would save people from lost data.
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07-17-2006, 02:36 PM
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Once I get this resolved, there will be a regular backup of pics and stuff to CD and an external storage drive.
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07-17-2006, 02:40 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: I don't belong here
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Originally Posted by Nufy
Once I get this resolved, there will be a regular backup of pics and stuff to CD and an external storage drive.
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I've been saying the same thing for a few years now. The only backup I made was when I did a fresh install on my old computer. You'd think that with all the computers I've seen that has lost data I'd be doing regular backups. I guess I figure I'm invincible since I'm an IT pro.... "It can't happen to me."
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07-17-2006, 02:46 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Originally Posted by Nufy
Once I get this resolved, there will be a regular backup of pics and stuff to CD and an external storage drive.
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Do it regularly. Latest I heard, if you use cheap media and improper storage techniques the data may only last a couple years. Quality media stored in a dark, dry place can last for 50 years+
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—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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