Data recovery

[PhaeThorn]

Hey people,

to make a long story very short and bland .... I lost all the data that was on my harddisk, due to a format that wasn't even suppose to happen. This includes personal data, inreplacable photo's, save games, loads of music, things I made for my study, important emails and unfinished maps. Now the good thing is that I cannot finish the unfinished maps anymore, so they don't feel like a burden anymore every time I look at UED ... but you can imagine I don't feel the same way about all the other stuff. Can any of the brains on this forum recomment a good data recovery program?

Anyways, I'll just say thanks for any 'yet to come answers' and go to bed now. Got a whole day planned tomorrow (nice weather plus the start of a one week festival in town) so I'll just read this thread when I'm back. :D

[Firetiger]

Software from DiskInternals (http://diskinternals.com/) is pretty decent. Can't recover until you pay for it though.

For a free alternative, try FreeUndelete (http://www.download.com/FreeUndelete/3640-2248_4-10495643.html?tag=tab_ur). Not sure how well it stacks up to commercial software.

[Moses2k]

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/download.htm
http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.html
Also, there are a few boot CD torrents out there containing relevant apps (and some appz).

You'll typically need a second drive or partition to recover the files to.

[immortius]

If you fail to recover your data, I would be happy to help re-generate your saved games for you. :P

:(

[Athelstone]

"File Scavenger" is good for searching specific file extensions. Helped me a few times.

[Convict]

The guy from Alt-Ctrl-Del used (http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/news.php?i=1128) Diskinternals to recover data after an accidental format. He recommended it.

[Machine]

I have some good datarecovery on the FTP Phae, I'll keep my MSN open and watched for if you need help.

[-=V12US=-]

Hey people,

to make a long story very short and bland .... I lost all the data that was on my harddisk, due to a format that wasn't even suppose to happen. This includes personal data, inreplacable photo's, save games, loads of music, things I made for my study, important emails and unfinished maps. Now the good thing is that I cannot finish the unfinished maps anymore, so they don't feel like a burden anymore every time I look at UED ... but you can imagine I don't feel the same way about all the other stuff. Can any of the brains on this forum recomment a good data recovery program?

Anyways, I'll just say thanks for any 'yet to come answers' and go to bed now. Got a whole day planned tomorrow (nice weather plus the start of a one week festival in town) so I'll just read this thread when I'm back. :D


All that porn! Lost forever! D:

[modetwo]

Aww, damn. Didn't this happen to you a couple of years ago aswell?

Backups, Phae... BACKUPS!

Hopefully you'll get it restored. Just be sure not to overwrite the formatted data.

[PhaeThorn]

Aww, damn. Didn't this happen to you a couple of years ago aswell?

Backups, Phae... BACKUPS!

Hopefully you'll get it restored. Just be sure not to overwrite the formatted data.
Nop, my motherboard thought it was nice to get overheated and crash a few years ago. Anyways ... backups ... I have the important things backup, always .... only it's on the same disk ^_^

Anyways, i'll try out a few of the ones suggested in this thread. I'll contact you about your ftp mach, since I lost those thigns too ;)

[Machine]

NP Phae, I need to kick it back off today because we got a new router but anything you need help with give me a shout.

You really should do backups like M2 says though :) Just RaR it and burn to a DvD.

[modetwo]

Saving backups of a disk on the same disk isn't really backups. ;)

[Athelstone]

If you're going to start backing stuff up onto DVD Phae, I highly recommend the latest Pioneer DVD burner and the following DVDs. I've backed up hundreds of giga bytes of anime successfully with these. Also extremely affordable.

http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=1020
http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=203

[Ruffian]

Was the festival fun?

[PhaeThorn]

Was the festival fun?
Not the first day. Chaos everywhere in the group and in the festival. It was already filled with people on the streets, but inside the bars and simular things it was simply stuffed. You could try to go to the other side of the building and be there within 20 minutes! Well ... you can imagine people standing around you, practicly standing still and slowly moving. Pushing etc etc. On the second day things were better. Good music and people and I managed to avoid the 'hotspots' filled with people. Then on the third day the fireworks began and everybody heard the news that the whole "vierdaagse" was cancelled.

The "Vierdaagse" is a known walking tour and people from all over the world come to it. You have the choice between 30, 40 and 50 kilometers that you have to walk on a day, and that for four days straight. Don't ask me why it's fun ... I don't like the walking part myself ... but there is always a good festival around it. Anywho ... I said the "vierdaagse" was cancelled and that was because two people died, about 10 people needed to be reanimated and 300+ people passed out and needed medical treatment. The reason for this all is the extreme heat here in the Netherlands. It was 36°c ( 96.8 F ) that day and on the roads, where the people walk, it was 42°c ( 107.6 F ). The hospitals couldn't handle all the people anymore and it was too risky to let the walkers go out again. It's the first time in 90 years that it has been cancelled. The festival itself went on, but the spirit wasn't there anymore.

So to answer your question .... the festival could have been better :)

[necros]

although, there's nothing quite like Karneval here in UK :(
It's damn hot though, its hot in netherlands too?

For my Data backups i use old/useless and graverobbed hard drives... You know like 10-40GB Loud SlowIDE HDs and that malarky. It doesn't matter that theyr'e small since as long as you have enough, you can restore all the data, but if you start getting smaller than 4GB it's not worth it.

Also, i generally keep duplicates of important files on all computers on a network, and windows reinstallation stuff (MSblast patches, SP2, Various antivirus and networking and video drivers etc) on a bootable ;) USB pen.

[Grank]

So to answer your question .... the festival could have been better :)

I disagree.

Dude you need to learn (http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/update/backup.mspx) to back up your stuff.

[Schleicher]

Backup? And miss all the drama coming from a total crash? Hell na!

First ya gotta be like "Ha, nothing can happen to my PC, he is immortal and eternal, like me". Then when it melts down/gets run over by a train/falls outta the window/shorts coz you dropped cake into it you can go "OH NO MY PORN *sob* OH WHY *Moan* WHYYYYY *groan* CRUEL WORLD *wallow in self-pity*"

Livin on the edge :guard:

[Aggamemnon]

"A child playing the keyboard like a piano, a power surge, lightning, floods. And sometimes equipment just fails."

Well if a child plays like a piano, and manages to not only confirm deletion but also delete a second time from the recycle bin, must play like a fucking mozart piece, all the others are pretty cool shit.

[BiG_D]

A shift + delete followed by enter would suffice. That sounds entirely possible to me ;)