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Does any one know how to recover a file after XP crashed on me while I was working on one of my apps. It but a bunch of invalid characters where a good portion of my code is. -Steven don't even try format c: /y with me!
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Does any one know how to recover a file after XP crashed on me while I was working on one of my apps. It but a bunch of invalid characters where a good portion of my code is. -Steven don't even try format c: /y with me!
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3D Image Library: Ltpb.8m.com/ImageWhat type of file do you have to recover ? Regardz Colin J Davies
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Does any one know how to recover a file after XP crashed on me while I was working on one of my apps. It but a bunch of invalid characters where a good portion of my code is. -Steven don't even try format c: /y with me!
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3D Image Library: Ltpb.8m.com/ImageSounds like the infamous Visual Studio 6 bug that corrupts code. Were you by any chance using plug-ins like Visual Assist or WndTabs? Sadly, if the file is garbage, you're probably screwed. -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
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Does any one know how to recover a file after XP crashed on me while I was working on one of my apps. It but a bunch of invalid characters where a good portion of my code is. -Steven don't even try format c: /y with me!
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3D Image Library: Ltpb.8m.com/ImageHi Make sure your drives are NTFS, your chances of recovering a corrupted file entry is much better, where FAT32 will most likely "delete" the file during a Scandisk, and will be unusable/inaccessable if you didnot run a scandisk. Now, unfortunately I know of no way to fix the problem. :( You can try www.ontrack.com[^] , you might find some answers there :~ Cheers :) Give them a chance! Do it for the kittens, dear God, the kittens! As seen on MS File Transfer: Please enter an integer between 1 and 2.
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What type of file do you have to recover ? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining. Said by Roger Wright about me.
Its a .cpp file. -Steven
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Sounds like the infamous Visual Studio 6 bug that corrupts code. Were you by any chance using plug-ins like Visual Assist or WndTabs? Sadly, if the file is garbage, you're probably screwed. -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
I wasn't using any plug-ins and I have SP5 installed for VC6. -Steven
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Hi Make sure your drives are NTFS, your chances of recovering a corrupted file entry is much better, where FAT32 will most likely "delete" the file during a Scandisk, and will be unusable/inaccessable if you didnot run a scandisk. Now, unfortunately I know of no way to fix the problem. :( You can try www.ontrack.com[^] , you might find some answers there :~ Cheers :) Give them a chance! Do it for the kittens, dear God, the kittens! As seen on MS File Transfer: Please enter an integer between 1 and 2.
This has happened to me a couple of times - usually when I got a BSOD in the NTFS file system :mad: The CPP files were totally trashed, so I had to delete them and recover from that other wonder MS product source safe.
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Does any one know how to recover a file after XP crashed on me while I was working on one of my apps. It but a bunch of invalid characters where a good portion of my code is. -Steven don't even try format c: /y with me!
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3D Image Library: Ltpb.8m.com/ImageThere really isn't much you can do. If that block was actually written to the disk, it didn't have time to get linked properly into the file headers. So even if it is on disk, it would be a bear to find or got overwritten during system boot. One of the things you can do is disable the write cache on your disk drives. Slows performance, but greatly reduces the chance of problems on BSOD. Tim Smith "Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we can not avoid it... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather that part of the solution." Hoare - 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture
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There really isn't much you can do. If that block was actually written to the disk, it didn't have time to get linked properly into the file headers. So even if it is on disk, it would be a bear to find or got overwritten during system boot. One of the things you can do is disable the write cache on your disk drives. Slows performance, but greatly reduces the chance of problems on BSOD. Tim Smith "Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we can not avoid it... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather that part of the solution." Hoare - 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture
Tim Smith wrote: So even if it is on disk, it would be a bear to find or got overwritten during system boot. I have a friend who deleted a large source file on accident once. So he used something like: grep -A 1000 -B 1000 "something he knew was in there" /dev/hda1 It found it and he was able to copy/paste it into a text editor. -Jack
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Its a .cpp file. -Steven
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3D Image Library: Ltpb.8m.com/ImageGive a tool like Text Extract[^] a go. It depends on how bad the file is corrupted as to what you can retrieve. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining. Said by Roger Wright about me.