OMG I LOST EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[spanky]

dude, if worse comes to worse and u really NEED that stuff recovered, just look in the back of some pc mags....like pc magazine...or pc world. there are companies that supposedly specialize in data recovery. i myself have never used them or read up on them, but its an option. i bet it costs an arm and a leg tho. anyone know about these data recoevery companies? they any good, or are they just gonna use the same software that i could buy in compusa?

 

[ILikeSprite]

I only had about 4GB of pr0n the rest was other junk. Most of my pr0n is on DVD.

 

[spanky]

btw, i have used lost & found by powerquest. it seemed to work ok, but the dos interface had me a little confused. give that a shot. u could prolly find it on morpheus.

 

[eLiu]

<< My Win2k install got totally FUBAR so I tried reinstalling it and it didn't work. I had 30GB worth of stuff on my HD and had nowhere to back it up to so I told it to install a clean copy and leave the filesystem how it is. Well for some fvcking reason it decided to completely wipe out my partition!!!! I LOST EVERYTHING!!!!! :|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:| Is there anyway I can get any of it back? I am desperate! >>



that really sucks...

but now...u can learn to: 1) back up your data...and 2) partition ur hd

hope you can save your stuff man

-eric

 

[Logix]

<< dude, if worse comes to worse and u really NEED that stuff recovered, just look in the back of some pc mags....like pc magazine...or pc world. there are companies that supposedly specialize in data recovery. i myself have never used them or read up on them, but its an option. i bet it costs an arm and a leg tho. anyone know about these data recoevery companies? they any good, or are they just gonna use the same software that i could buy in compusa? >>


There's a company in my hometown called DriveSavers, but they specialize more in recovering data from hard drives that were in fires or crushed by cars, etc. They have all kinds of crazy techniques, and they do all their work in one of those static-free "clean rooms". I'm sure it's really expensive though, as their clients are probably more the corporate types who really do NEED data recovery.

McPhreak's solution seems promising.

 

[OS]

Sorry to hear this. You should seriously consider buying another physical drive and a CD writer. Is your data worth 100 or so dollars to you? I'd say my data is worth more than the computer I'm using. In fact, some of my data I'd consider to be priceless and irreplaceable. I treat my data accordingly.

 

[Ionizer86]

Those data recovery centers can help you out for like $150-$200, but if you keep using the same HDD as before...your data is already starting to get replaced by other stuff.

 

[LittlePrincess]

Didnt it do exactlyl what you told it to do? Or am I too tired?

I told it to install a clean copy and leave the filesystem how it is
which means, format first (clean install), and leave the file system how it is (leave it as what you had, probaly fat32)
since you've lost your data, you might as well switch over to ntfs now.
I think what you wanted was an upgrade, not a clean install.

 

[rubix]

first of all, you should ALWAYS put downloads on a different partition than your os for this very reason. no matter what goes wrong with your os you will then be able to safely format it and only lose your installed programs and configurations, big deal

second, 30 gigs on 700mb cdrs is not that bad at all, but why collect 30 gigs at once? everytime you have around 700mb of similar content i'd back it up immediately (and you can still leave it on your download partition too)

third, if a file is over 700mb you can easily use rar or whatever to split it into multiple files of 700mb a piece and if you use 0 compression level it'll go fast

fourth, if you ever accidently format a drive you can usually unformat it rather easily with ceratin programs and recover everything (as long as yuo don't write anything to it since the format). i've done that myself with norton unformat dos version, the windows one sucks

one time in 1997 i lost all 200+ mp3 albums i had that i had painstakenly dled over the last year on my 33.6 modem. that sucked and i never got them back, the drive died i think

 

[ILikeSprite]

I got a hold of OnTrack EasyRecovery. So far it's found 2350 directories and 55464 files and it's 15% completed so far. I got my fingers crossed......

 

[ttn1]

Actually you can boot from a floppy and read NTFS partitions. Search for a program called NTFSDOS.

I know it worked with NT4.0 not sure about 2000 partitions.