Oh for the love of Zeus NOOOO!
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It has finally happened - what we all dread. Windows 2000 (server, sp2) has finally crashed on me. Catastrophically. I started with a trusty STOP error when installing an updated printer driver to try to fix a calibration problem and ended up with a trashed system partition. It seems that as I used NTFS's compressing file system I cannot restore any compressed files?! WTF? Please tell me there is some software or company somewhere that will do this? Now I am a big "backerupper" - I back up even the most meaningless of temporary files incase an event like this should happen, and I follow all the good rules of placing programs and data files on seperate drives since I had managed to f--k up system paritions too many times to count in the past. But despite my best efforts it seems when I configured this machine I forgot to change the location for Outlook's mailbox files to the main data drive (or indeed to any directory on the system drive included in the weekly backup). So yes - I have lost every e-mail ever sent to or by my entire organisation (all three of us on a good day) over the past three years. This may not sound like a big problem, but consider what would happen if a traditional paper-based office was lost in a fire: every single piece of correspondance, invoices, receipts, contacts... all gone. The company would likely go out of business unless they were insured for loss of data and were very very lucky. I am not. I have taken the usual precautions on cloning the damaged partition to a new drive and removing the old one and am keeping it in the data safe for the time being whilst I throw everything I have got at the clones. So far I have managed to recover nothing. :(( As if that isn't enough - and believe me it is: I would not wish this punishment on Linus himself - it was the server machine that checked for e-mail sent to the battleaxesoftware.com domain, and I cannot reconfigure the replacement system as the logon details for our hosts was, you guessed it, in the f--king e-mail archives. I'll try phoning them later and hope they agree to accept my identy without knowledge of *any* of my account information. And oh man, I have just thought of something else. All our journals, tasks, meetings and more are now gone. Ffffffff... :(( Take my advice and go and check RIGHT NOW that you are backing up *everything*, even if you think it may not be important, and even if you think it is already being backed up. I thought I had it cornered with automatic weekly backups stored
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It has finally happened - what we all dread. Windows 2000 (server, sp2) has finally crashed on me. Catastrophically. I started with a trusty STOP error when installing an updated printer driver to try to fix a calibration problem and ended up with a trashed system partition. It seems that as I used NTFS's compressing file system I cannot restore any compressed files?! WTF? Please tell me there is some software or company somewhere that will do this? Now I am a big "backerupper" - I back up even the most meaningless of temporary files incase an event like this should happen, and I follow all the good rules of placing programs and data files on seperate drives since I had managed to f--k up system paritions too many times to count in the past. But despite my best efforts it seems when I configured this machine I forgot to change the location for Outlook's mailbox files to the main data drive (or indeed to any directory on the system drive included in the weekly backup). So yes - I have lost every e-mail ever sent to or by my entire organisation (all three of us on a good day) over the past three years. This may not sound like a big problem, but consider what would happen if a traditional paper-based office was lost in a fire: every single piece of correspondance, invoices, receipts, contacts... all gone. The company would likely go out of business unless they were insured for loss of data and were very very lucky. I am not. I have taken the usual precautions on cloning the damaged partition to a new drive and removing the old one and am keeping it in the data safe for the time being whilst I throw everything I have got at the clones. So far I have managed to recover nothing. :(( As if that isn't enough - and believe me it is: I would not wish this punishment on Linus himself - it was the server machine that checked for e-mail sent to the battleaxesoftware.com domain, and I cannot reconfigure the replacement system as the logon details for our hosts was, you guessed it, in the f--king e-mail archives. I'll try phoning them later and hope they agree to accept my identy without knowledge of *any* of my account information. And oh man, I have just thought of something else. All our journals, tasks, meetings and more are now gone. Ffffffff... :(( Take my advice and go and check RIGHT NOW that you are backing up *everything*, even if you think it may not be important, and even if you think it is already being backed up. I thought I had it cornered with automatic weekly backups stored
Have you tried the NTFSDOS tool from winternals [^]? Perhaps they have other tools that could help you as well... -- Russell Morris "Have you gone mad Frink? Put down that science pole!"
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It has finally happened - what we all dread. Windows 2000 (server, sp2) has finally crashed on me. Catastrophically. I started with a trusty STOP error when installing an updated printer driver to try to fix a calibration problem and ended up with a trashed system partition. It seems that as I used NTFS's compressing file system I cannot restore any compressed files?! WTF? Please tell me there is some software or company somewhere that will do this? Now I am a big "backerupper" - I back up even the most meaningless of temporary files incase an event like this should happen, and I follow all the good rules of placing programs and data files on seperate drives since I had managed to f--k up system paritions too many times to count in the past. But despite my best efforts it seems when I configured this machine I forgot to change the location for Outlook's mailbox files to the main data drive (or indeed to any directory on the system drive included in the weekly backup). So yes - I have lost every e-mail ever sent to or by my entire organisation (all three of us on a good day) over the past three years. This may not sound like a big problem, but consider what would happen if a traditional paper-based office was lost in a fire: every single piece of correspondance, invoices, receipts, contacts... all gone. The company would likely go out of business unless they were insured for loss of data and were very very lucky. I am not. I have taken the usual precautions on cloning the damaged partition to a new drive and removing the old one and am keeping it in the data safe for the time being whilst I throw everything I have got at the clones. So far I have managed to recover nothing. :(( As if that isn't enough - and believe me it is: I would not wish this punishment on Linus himself - it was the server machine that checked for e-mail sent to the battleaxesoftware.com domain, and I cannot reconfigure the replacement system as the logon details for our hosts was, you guessed it, in the f--king e-mail archives. I'll try phoning them later and hope they agree to accept my identy without knowledge of *any* of my account information. And oh man, I have just thought of something else. All our journals, tasks, meetings and more are now gone. Ffffffff... :(( Take my advice and go and check RIGHT NOW that you are backing up *everything*, even if you think it may not be important, and even if you think it is already being backed up. I thought I had it cornered with automatic weekly backups stored
You created an emergency rescue disk, didn't you? :-D Or did you try using one and that didn't work? I know there are some DOS-like utilities that can read NTFS partitions. You might want to give them a try, perhaps you can get at your data in that way. There are three types of people in this world: those who can count, and those who can't.
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He backs up a certain drive it appears and forgot to put the Exchange Server stuff on the drive that the backups are run. That sucks big time.
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You created an emergency rescue disk, didn't you? :-D Or did you try using one and that didn't work? I know there are some DOS-like utilities that can read NTFS partitions. You might want to give them a try, perhaps you can get at your data in that way. There are three types of people in this world: those who can count, and those who can't.
Navin wrote: You created an emergency rescue disk, didn't you? Always, and no that didn't help at all. Navin wrote: I know there are some DOS-like utilities that can read NTFS partitions. You might want to give them a try, perhaps you can get at your data in that way In addition to the ERD process I've tried Lost and Found - didn't help. I've tried Restorer2000 Pro - didn't help. I've tried the recovery console - didn't help. I can query the size of the data on the drive fine, but that seems to be all.
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
I'm not schizophrenic, are we.
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He backs up a certain drive it appears and forgot to put the Exchange Server stuff on the drive that the backups are run. That sucks big time.
Almost. I back up all the local data on the client systems individually each week and backup the data, releases, what I considered to be all the important system files/directories from the system disk weekly, and the storage drive backup is updated as and when files are stored there. Sadly it seems my choice to avoid backing up the entire system drive to save space taken by unimportant OS and software files which could be restored easily from their original media has taken my trust and run with it. I made a mistake - I missed one damn directory and will be paying for it with blood.
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
I'm not schizophrenic, are we.
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Have you tried the NTFSDOS tool from winternals [^]? Perhaps they have other tools that could help you as well... -- Russell Morris "Have you gone mad Frink? Put down that science pole!"
I haven't tried that specific tool as from the features it doesn't seem it would help, but I will have a look at the features of the other programs and see if they may be suitable.
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
I'm not schizophrenic, are we.
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I backup ALL my important data on DAT. I simply could not live without my tapedrive... - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
Anders Molin wrote: I backup ALL my important data on ... That's what I used to say...
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
I'm not schizophrenic, are we.
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It has finally happened - what we all dread. Windows 2000 (server, sp2) has finally crashed on me. Catastrophically. I started with a trusty STOP error when installing an updated printer driver to try to fix a calibration problem and ended up with a trashed system partition. It seems that as I used NTFS's compressing file system I cannot restore any compressed files?! WTF? Please tell me there is some software or company somewhere that will do this? Now I am a big "backerupper" - I back up even the most meaningless of temporary files incase an event like this should happen, and I follow all the good rules of placing programs and data files on seperate drives since I had managed to f--k up system paritions too many times to count in the past. But despite my best efforts it seems when I configured this machine I forgot to change the location for Outlook's mailbox files to the main data drive (or indeed to any directory on the system drive included in the weekly backup). So yes - I have lost every e-mail ever sent to or by my entire organisation (all three of us on a good day) over the past three years. This may not sound like a big problem, but consider what would happen if a traditional paper-based office was lost in a fire: every single piece of correspondance, invoices, receipts, contacts... all gone. The company would likely go out of business unless they were insured for loss of data and were very very lucky. I am not. I have taken the usual precautions on cloning the damaged partition to a new drive and removing the old one and am keeping it in the data safe for the time being whilst I throw everything I have got at the clones. So far I have managed to recover nothing. :(( As if that isn't enough - and believe me it is: I would not wish this punishment on Linus himself - it was the server machine that checked for e-mail sent to the battleaxesoftware.com domain, and I cannot reconfigure the replacement system as the logon details for our hosts was, you guessed it, in the f--king e-mail archives. I'll try phoning them later and hope they agree to accept my identy without knowledge of *any* of my account information. And oh man, I have just thought of something else. All our journals, tasks, meetings and more are now gone. Ffffffff... :(( Take my advice and go and check RIGHT NOW that you are backing up *everything*, even if you think it may not be important, and even if you think it is already being backed up. I thought I had it cornered with automatic weekly backups stored
My condolensces. I'm investing in a CDRW ASAP. ASP.NET can never fail as working with it is like fitting bras to supermodels - it's one pleasure after the next - David Wulff
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Navin wrote: You created an emergency rescue disk, didn't you? Always, and no that didn't help at all. Navin wrote: I know there are some DOS-like utilities that can read NTFS partitions. You might want to give them a try, perhaps you can get at your data in that way In addition to the ERD process I've tried Lost and Found - didn't help. I've tried Restorer2000 Pro - didn't help. I've tried the recovery console - didn't help. I can query the size of the data on the drive fine, but that seems to be all.
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
I'm not schizophrenic, are we.
Major bummage. I am relatively sure, though, that there are companies that specialize in data recovery. I have never used one, so I can't recommend or even name any. But if you have enough $$ they can probably recover your stuff with their black magic. There are three types of people in this world: those who can count, and those who can't.
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It has finally happened - what we all dread. Windows 2000 (server, sp2) has finally crashed on me. Catastrophically. I started with a trusty STOP error when installing an updated printer driver to try to fix a calibration problem and ended up with a trashed system partition. It seems that as I used NTFS's compressing file system I cannot restore any compressed files?! WTF? Please tell me there is some software or company somewhere that will do this? Now I am a big "backerupper" - I back up even the most meaningless of temporary files incase an event like this should happen, and I follow all the good rules of placing programs and data files on seperate drives since I had managed to f--k up system paritions too many times to count in the past. But despite my best efforts it seems when I configured this machine I forgot to change the location for Outlook's mailbox files to the main data drive (or indeed to any directory on the system drive included in the weekly backup). So yes - I have lost every e-mail ever sent to or by my entire organisation (all three of us on a good day) over the past three years. This may not sound like a big problem, but consider what would happen if a traditional paper-based office was lost in a fire: every single piece of correspondance, invoices, receipts, contacts... all gone. The company would likely go out of business unless they were insured for loss of data and were very very lucky. I am not. I have taken the usual precautions on cloning the damaged partition to a new drive and removing the old one and am keeping it in the data safe for the time being whilst I throw everything I have got at the clones. So far I have managed to recover nothing. :(( As if that isn't enough - and believe me it is: I would not wish this punishment on Linus himself - it was the server machine that checked for e-mail sent to the battleaxesoftware.com domain, and I cannot reconfigure the replacement system as the logon details for our hosts was, you guessed it, in the f--king e-mail archives. I'll try phoning them later and hope they agree to accept my identy without knowledge of *any* of my account information. And oh man, I have just thought of something else. All our journals, tasks, meetings and more are now gone. Ffffffff... :(( Take my advice and go and check RIGHT NOW that you are backing up *everything*, even if you think it may not be important, and even if you think it is already being backed up. I thought I had it cornered with automatic weekly backups stored
Hi, First, Major bummer... Second, Do you have eDonkey??? If yes Look on www.sharereactor.com for a ERD CD in the software section. I read there is a tool on it that can restore your NTFS/FAT/FAT32 partitions by looking to the files (It recreates the File-tables) Maybe it's of some use. Greets, Martin
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My condolensces. I'm investing in a CDRW ASAP. ASP.NET can never fail as working with it is like fitting bras to supermodels - it's one pleasure after the next - David Wulff
Senkwe Chanda wrote: CDRW ASAP. Never heard of that particular standard. :) (j/k) I've had a CDRW for years, but I've only ever bought 2 discs and both are full. And I can't be bothered buying any new ones. Lazy aren't I?
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It has finally happened - what we all dread. Windows 2000 (server, sp2) has finally crashed on me. Catastrophically. I started with a trusty STOP error when installing an updated printer driver to try to fix a calibration problem and ended up with a trashed system partition. It seems that as I used NTFS's compressing file system I cannot restore any compressed files?! WTF? Please tell me there is some software or company somewhere that will do this? Now I am a big "backerupper" - I back up even the most meaningless of temporary files incase an event like this should happen, and I follow all the good rules of placing programs and data files on seperate drives since I had managed to f--k up system paritions too many times to count in the past. But despite my best efforts it seems when I configured this machine I forgot to change the location for Outlook's mailbox files to the main data drive (or indeed to any directory on the system drive included in the weekly backup). So yes - I have lost every e-mail ever sent to or by my entire organisation (all three of us on a good day) over the past three years. This may not sound like a big problem, but consider what would happen if a traditional paper-based office was lost in a fire: every single piece of correspondance, invoices, receipts, contacts... all gone. The company would likely go out of business unless they were insured for loss of data and were very very lucky. I am not. I have taken the usual precautions on cloning the damaged partition to a new drive and removing the old one and am keeping it in the data safe for the time being whilst I throw everything I have got at the clones. So far I have managed to recover nothing. :(( As if that isn't enough - and believe me it is: I would not wish this punishment on Linus himself - it was the server machine that checked for e-mail sent to the battleaxesoftware.com domain, and I cannot reconfigure the replacement system as the logon details for our hosts was, you guessed it, in the f--king e-mail archives. I'll try phoning them later and hope they agree to accept my identy without knowledge of *any* of my account information. And oh man, I have just thought of something else. All our journals, tasks, meetings and more are now gone. Ffffffff... :(( Take my advice and go and check RIGHT NOW that you are backing up *everything*, even if you think it may not be important, and even if you think it is already being backed up. I thought I had it cornered with automatic weekly backups stored
Sorry to hear that David, I know how much it sucks loosing all your mail, personal settings, and worse still, important work. Perhaps somebody should write a top ten computing do's and dont's article. Backups should be first on the do's.
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Have you tried the NTFSDOS tool from winternals [^]? Perhaps they have other tools that could help you as well... -- Russell Morris "Have you gone mad Frink? Put down that science pole!"
I tried it (on a good drive) using Win98 SP1, but never could get it to work. Don't hang too many hopes on it. X| Andy Metcalfe - Sonardyne International Ltd
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It has finally happened - what we all dread. Windows 2000 (server, sp2) has finally crashed on me. Catastrophically. I started with a trusty STOP error when installing an updated printer driver to try to fix a calibration problem and ended up with a trashed system partition. It seems that as I used NTFS's compressing file system I cannot restore any compressed files?! WTF? Please tell me there is some software or company somewhere that will do this? Now I am a big "backerupper" - I back up even the most meaningless of temporary files incase an event like this should happen, and I follow all the good rules of placing programs and data files on seperate drives since I had managed to f--k up system paritions too many times to count in the past. But despite my best efforts it seems when I configured this machine I forgot to change the location for Outlook's mailbox files to the main data drive (or indeed to any directory on the system drive included in the weekly backup). So yes - I have lost every e-mail ever sent to or by my entire organisation (all three of us on a good day) over the past three years. This may not sound like a big problem, but consider what would happen if a traditional paper-based office was lost in a fire: every single piece of correspondance, invoices, receipts, contacts... all gone. The company would likely go out of business unless they were insured for loss of data and were very very lucky. I am not. I have taken the usual precautions on cloning the damaged partition to a new drive and removing the old one and am keeping it in the data safe for the time being whilst I throw everything I have got at the clones. So far I have managed to recover nothing. :(( As if that isn't enough - and believe me it is: I would not wish this punishment on Linus himself - it was the server machine that checked for e-mail sent to the battleaxesoftware.com domain, and I cannot reconfigure the replacement system as the logon details for our hosts was, you guessed it, in the f--king e-mail archives. I'll try phoning them later and hope they agree to accept my identy without knowledge of *any* of my account information. And oh man, I have just thought of something else. All our journals, tasks, meetings and more are now gone. Ffffffff... :(( Take my advice and go and check RIGHT NOW that you are backing up *everything*, even if you think it may not be important, and even if you think it is already being backed up. I thought I had it cornered with automatic weekly backups stored
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Sorry to hear that David, I know how much it sucks loosing all your mail, personal settings, and worse still, important work. Perhaps somebody should write a top ten computing do's and dont's article. Backups should be first on the do's.
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SIMON WALTON
SONORK ID 100.10024they did, it prob. got lost when their drive failed :)
"When the only tool you have is a hammer, a sore thumb you will have."
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It has finally happened - what we all dread. Windows 2000 (server, sp2) has finally crashed on me. Catastrophically. I started with a trusty STOP error when installing an updated printer driver to try to fix a calibration problem and ended up with a trashed system partition. It seems that as I used NTFS's compressing file system I cannot restore any compressed files?! WTF? Please tell me there is some software or company somewhere that will do this? Now I am a big "backerupper" - I back up even the most meaningless of temporary files incase an event like this should happen, and I follow all the good rules of placing programs and data files on seperate drives since I had managed to f--k up system paritions too many times to count in the past. But despite my best efforts it seems when I configured this machine I forgot to change the location for Outlook's mailbox files to the main data drive (or indeed to any directory on the system drive included in the weekly backup). So yes - I have lost every e-mail ever sent to or by my entire organisation (all three of us on a good day) over the past three years. This may not sound like a big problem, but consider what would happen if a traditional paper-based office was lost in a fire: every single piece of correspondance, invoices, receipts, contacts... all gone. The company would likely go out of business unless they were insured for loss of data and were very very lucky. I am not. I have taken the usual precautions on cloning the damaged partition to a new drive and removing the old one and am keeping it in the data safe for the time being whilst I throw everything I have got at the clones. So far I have managed to recover nothing. :(( As if that isn't enough - and believe me it is: I would not wish this punishment on Linus himself - it was the server machine that checked for e-mail sent to the battleaxesoftware.com domain, and I cannot reconfigure the replacement system as the logon details for our hosts was, you guessed it, in the f--king e-mail archives. I'll try phoning them later and hope they agree to accept my identy without knowledge of *any* of my account information. And oh man, I have just thought of something else. All our journals, tasks, meetings and more are now gone. Ffffffff... :(( Take my advice and go and check RIGHT NOW that you are backing up *everything*, even if you think it may not be important, and even if you think it is already being backed up. I thought I had it cornered with automatic weekly backups stored
David Wulff wrote: . If you don't hear from me in more than a week then it may well be that my days of avoiding working at Burger King are numbered. LOL ! :-D Sorry to hear about your problem Dave. Can´t that recovery console do anything for ya ? Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 MRitter :jig: I've gone sending to outer space, to find another race :jig:
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It has finally happened - what we all dread. Windows 2000 (server, sp2) has finally crashed on me. Catastrophically. I started with a trusty STOP error when installing an updated printer driver to try to fix a calibration problem and ended up with a trashed system partition. It seems that as I used NTFS's compressing file system I cannot restore any compressed files?! WTF? Please tell me there is some software or company somewhere that will do this? Now I am a big "backerupper" - I back up even the most meaningless of temporary files incase an event like this should happen, and I follow all the good rules of placing programs and data files on seperate drives since I had managed to f--k up system paritions too many times to count in the past. But despite my best efforts it seems when I configured this machine I forgot to change the location for Outlook's mailbox files to the main data drive (or indeed to any directory on the system drive included in the weekly backup). So yes - I have lost every e-mail ever sent to or by my entire organisation (all three of us on a good day) over the past three years. This may not sound like a big problem, but consider what would happen if a traditional paper-based office was lost in a fire: every single piece of correspondance, invoices, receipts, contacts... all gone. The company would likely go out of business unless they were insured for loss of data and were very very lucky. I am not. I have taken the usual precautions on cloning the damaged partition to a new drive and removing the old one and am keeping it in the data safe for the time being whilst I throw everything I have got at the clones. So far I have managed to recover nothing. :(( As if that isn't enough - and believe me it is: I would not wish this punishment on Linus himself - it was the server machine that checked for e-mail sent to the battleaxesoftware.com domain, and I cannot reconfigure the replacement system as the logon details for our hosts was, you guessed it, in the f--king e-mail archives. I'll try phoning them later and hope they agree to accept my identy without knowledge of *any* of my account information. And oh man, I have just thought of something else. All our journals, tasks, meetings and more are now gone. Ffffffff... :(( Take my advice and go and check RIGHT NOW that you are backing up *everything*, even if you think it may not be important, and even if you think it is already being backed up. I thought I had it cornered with automatic weekly backups stored
Sorry to read that, it's seems you will have some fun to correct all this mess.... About drive compression, I did have the same problem at the goooooold old time of DOS 6.20. I've lost everything, impossible to correct the main compressed file, that's why I don't compress disk anymore. I hope MS improved the rescue technics for W2K. About backups, I've learned that something which exists in only one specimen should be considered as lost. And I wonder if 2 specimens are enough. Good luck anyway, We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children. Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1900-1944)
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It has finally happened - what we all dread. Windows 2000 (server, sp2) has finally crashed on me. Catastrophically. I started with a trusty STOP error when installing an updated printer driver to try to fix a calibration problem and ended up with a trashed system partition. It seems that as I used NTFS's compressing file system I cannot restore any compressed files?! WTF? Please tell me there is some software or company somewhere that will do this? Now I am a big "backerupper" - I back up even the most meaningless of temporary files incase an event like this should happen, and I follow all the good rules of placing programs and data files on seperate drives since I had managed to f--k up system paritions too many times to count in the past. But despite my best efforts it seems when I configured this machine I forgot to change the location for Outlook's mailbox files to the main data drive (or indeed to any directory on the system drive included in the weekly backup). So yes - I have lost every e-mail ever sent to or by my entire organisation (all three of us on a good day) over the past three years. This may not sound like a big problem, but consider what would happen if a traditional paper-based office was lost in a fire: every single piece of correspondance, invoices, receipts, contacts... all gone. The company would likely go out of business unless they were insured for loss of data and were very very lucky. I am not. I have taken the usual precautions on cloning the damaged partition to a new drive and removing the old one and am keeping it in the data safe for the time being whilst I throw everything I have got at the clones. So far I have managed to recover nothing. :(( As if that isn't enough - and believe me it is: I would not wish this punishment on Linus himself - it was the server machine that checked for e-mail sent to the battleaxesoftware.com domain, and I cannot reconfigure the replacement system as the logon details for our hosts was, you guessed it, in the f--king e-mail archives. I'll try phoning them later and hope they agree to accept my identy without knowledge of *any* of my account information. And oh man, I have just thought of something else. All our journals, tasks, meetings and more are now gone. Ffffffff... :(( Take my advice and go and check RIGHT NOW that you are backing up *everything*, even if you think it may not be important, and even if you think it is already being backed up. I thought I had it cornered with automatic weekly backups stored
David Wulff wrote: I forgot to change the location for Outlook's mailbox files to the main data drive MS putting data files into the system directories was a really stupid thing todo. David, One suggestion that has worked for me. I added the crashed drive as a slave onto a second system. Even if this meant getting a new drive for the system you have and installing a new OS on it and then adding the old drive. I have recovered files by doing this and it looks like your one issue is with the PST file(s). Good luck. If you insist in finding evil in me you will find it, whether it is there or not.
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Navin wrote: You created an emergency rescue disk, didn't you? Always, and no that didn't help at all. Navin wrote: I know there are some DOS-like utilities that can read NTFS partitions. You might want to give them a try, perhaps you can get at your data in that way In addition to the ERD process I've tried Lost and Found - didn't help. I've tried Restorer2000 Pro - didn't help. I've tried the recovery console - didn't help. I can query the size of the data on the drive fine, but that seems to be all.
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
I'm not schizophrenic, are we.
http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm This may help. Good luck. There are a few otheres that are completely free for copying data. A quick Google search should turn them up. Jason Gerard