just lost everything!!

Chewy Fahrvergnugen

889 posts · joined Jul 2004 · 6 Sep 2005, 12:35 am

#404615

I just lost all my computer files, years of accumulated songs, videos, volksie stuff and about 50 irreplacable photos of my bug resto!!
and it was all my fault! fuckin dickhead!
this sucks 🙁
sorry just had to share my pain
back your shit up people

:cry :cry :cry

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ratty 63 Custom Title Time!

1,083 posts · joined Oct 2003 · 6 Sep 2005, 12:41 am

#404616

bugger man - that does suck

I'm just going to do a back-up right now - thanks for reminding me (it's been on my to-do list for months but this just promoted it to the top of the list!)

Wotdidyado?

R 🙂

40hp, 6V and ...er... slowly making improvements 😂

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Chewy Fahrvergnugen

889 posts · joined Jul 2004 · 6 Sep 2005, 12:48 am

#404617

transferred all my stuff to D drive so I could reformat C drive, then reformatted D drive instead!
It was the computers fault I swear! It should have formatted C drive not D
ahh well shit happens time to start again..

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ratty 63 Custom Title Time!

1,083 posts · joined Oct 2003 · 6 Sep 2005, 1:01 am

#404621

fugger :puke

R 🙂

40hp, 6V and ...er... slowly making improvements 😂

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice!

Founding member of the Gold Coast Dub Club Inc. 🙂

wezley Officially Full-On Dubber

305 posts · joined Oct 2004 · 6 Sep 2005, 8:56 am

#404649

if you have just formatted the drive, you can get back most of your data. it is important you do nothing to the drive to ensure the data is not overwritten again.

check out this thread on another forum for mroe info:

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=355215

good luck

VolksFolks Son of Jim - Creator of Good

2,869 posts · joined Dec 2003 · 6 Sep 2005, 9:02 am

#404651

Oh no, i have been there done that, i now have 3 HDD, 1 small for operating system and some unnessecery files, the other in my machine for pics, music, docs etc, and a external one that i update monthly. the external one then lives away from the pc for any future crashes, good luck in finding the files, i feel your anger...

Andy

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1500S Custom Title Time!

1,418 posts · joined Mar 2005 · 6 Sep 2005, 9:53 am

#404662

Why not backup to a DVD-RW or DVD-RAM disk. Saves a lot of heartache!

oval TOFU Bitte, ein Bit!

2,946 posts · joined Jul 2003 · 6 Sep 2005, 12:18 pm

#404697

aaaaaaaargh I sorta know how that feels... I try to back up my work every month.. good luck with the retrieival dude

...and Robert's ya father's brother...

Da Wiz Officially Full-On Dubber

330 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 6 Sep 2005, 2:10 pm

#404719

Yeah, I did this... getdataback is a pretty good app, and I managed to rescue most of my deleted files...

¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.-> Keepin' it Real !!

Chewy Fahrvergnugen

889 posts · joined Jul 2004 · 6 Sep 2005, 3:13 pm

#404725

Thanks for the advice on recovery programs, got nearly all my stuff back, including the pics!
D drive was wiped clean but because everything was on C before I moved it to D all the stuff was still lurking on C drive
Cheeers! :beer

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blutopless2 DAMSLO

2,457 posts · joined Jan 2004 · 6 Sep 2005, 3:14 pm

#404726

i try to do backups every month also... have also found that usb drives are quite handy to keep important stuff on them in between back ups... was told last night by my nightschool teacher (currently learning "C" programming) that usb drives have a limited number of read/write functions (then they apparently stop working)... has anyone else heard this or know more about it?

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bugeyedbabe Wheres her VW heart on her sleeve

3,945 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 6 Sep 2005, 5:17 pm

#404758

kewl to here ur getting the info all back chewy...

was about to tell u not to touch it...to run a recovery program over it.....

Big A used to do that sort of thing computer disaster recoveries on the drives....for when ppl mistakeningly erased files/drives....and in some cases...on purpose....(as in yeah...just leaving now...taking info with me...not letting u have it without ALOT of money swapping hands...)

The companies send him the drives/sometimes whole puters....he re creates them...and thanks very much....all back to normal...

His favorite is where someone leaves info but password protects it....ummm....no gonna help yas either...he can bust them too....

So here at home I learnt...nothing is sacred...no secret worth hiding....and no point really...if Big A wanted to know it...well, he could find it.

But I save him time and back up the programs (occassionally)...actually, at one point he had the systems from the network at home just back it all up to a dedicated puter....that was sole purpose of one of our puters....back up unique files from all others...

hmmm..miss the simplicity of that.....oh well...

So...back to thread...sorry u went thru the panic of it all...its the photos I worry about most too...but at least in the end its good news..

dubless. 🥲
🥷 And who the helled parked the Mitsubishi "Prancer" under my house??? 🥷

ClintsBug Commited Dubber

57 posts · joined Dec 2004 · 7 Sep 2005, 11:53 pm

#405351

I had the same problem on a brand new laptop ... all my multimedia work was on it, not backed up as i was an idiot ... and i lost it a week before it was due ... :jesus i got it all redone, better than before somehow ... :bounce

i still dont back up ... i will learn one day ...

Chewy wrote:I just lost all my computer files, years of accumulated songs, videos, volksie stuff and about 50 irreplacable photos of my bug resto!!
and it was all my fault! fuckin dickhead!
this sucks 🙁
sorry just had to share my pain
back your shit up people

:cry :cry :cry

:P "I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law." :P