How to recover my data?
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Rob Graham wrote:
A second or external hard disc is cheap insurance.
Yep. Picked up a 320GB Western Digital MyBook yesterday at Target for $70. One can pick up a 1TB one for $250.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Rob Graham wrote:
A second or external hard disc is cheap insurance.
Yep. Picked up a 320GB Western Digital MyBook yesterday at Target for $70. One can pick up a 1TB one for $250.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Online I've seen 1tb external drives on sale for half that.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
Now that I remember, it was the 2TB one for $250. The 1TB was $150.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Now that I remember, it was the 2TB one for $250. The 1TB was $150.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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*cringe* Raid striping and backup do not mix. :wtf: :wtf:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
dan neely wrote:
Raid striping and backup do not mix
No, they certainly don't. The MyBook will probably be sufficient. The K.I.S.S. principle is the m.o. around here :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Unless the image ghost wrote was 100% full it didn't overwrite your entire disk, and some of your data is potentially still out there (but without a FAT reference for the OS to find) for recovery tools to find.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
Once he wrote new data to the drive, he pretty much destroyed any chance of retrieving old files. Of course, he could pay thousands of dollars to a data forensics expert to try to regain the lost data, but he would be a) paying to much, and b) wasting his time.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
Once he wrote new data to the drive, he pretty much destroyed any chance of retrieving old files. Of course, he could pay thousands of dollars to a data forensics expert to try to regain the lost data, but he would be a) paying to much, and b) wasting his time.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Unless I misunderstand what ghost does with blank space in the image some of the data is potentially still there. Assuming a 10 sector drive with pre-accident data in sectors 0-6 and 7-9 empty that was overwritten with an image that had data in sectors 0-2 with 3-9 empty, the data in sectors 3-6 should still be written on the drive but not linked to in the NTFS FAT replacement.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Unless I misunderstand what ghost does with blank space in the image some of the data is potentially still there. Assuming a 10 sector drive with pre-accident data in sectors 0-6 and 7-9 empty that was overwritten with an image that had data in sectors 0-2 with 3-9 empty, the data in sectors 3-6 should still be written on the drive but not linked to in the NTFS FAT replacement.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
dan neely wrote:
the data is potentially still there
Yeah, but how much do you think you should pay to find out? We're talking two years worth of a) adding new files, and b) deleting old files and folders. Chances are better that he won't get enough back to make a bit of difference, and he will have spent hundreds (or thousands) of dollars to find out. Nope, he'd be a lot better off just starting from scratch and learning from his screw up.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
:(( Today is a bad day.I just wanted to recover my system by Ghost,but my whole disk was gone!!All of my files been deleted!About two years hard working was gone!I don't know how to face it!I am so poor,no money to ask for others to help me.If they are some move data I'll don't care,but all of my job,my plan. :(( anyone have a good idea to recover my data?
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These type of posts never cease to amaze me. So, which one are you now finding to be the most expensive: a proper backup solution, or losing the data? Apparently some people still choose the latter. I've seen this so often, by now I'm sorry to say I have very little sympathy.
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dan neely wrote:
the data is potentially still there
Yeah, but how much do you think you should pay to find out? We're talking two years worth of a) adding new files, and b) deleting old files and folders. Chances are better that he won't get enough back to make a bit of difference, and he will have spent hundreds (or thousands) of dollars to find out. Nope, he'd be a lot better off just starting from scratch and learning from his screw up.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Files that were merely marked empty instead of being overwritten with data don't need forensic recovery. R studio (mentioned by another poster) can recover them and at $50 for the basic edition is a reasonable alternative to writing off everything as the result of luser stupidity. http://www.data-recovery-software.net/[^]
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
