a friends computer has fucked up somehow and ddeleted all the files is there anyone here that could tell me how to retrieve the files ?


any help appreciated.... if needed add me to msn adzslick87@hotmail.com

thanks guys
adz

dose windows boot???
or missing windows files??
as well as others files
if he dosn't need anythink on the pc the best way is a format and reload !
unless he needs some files in which he could boot to dos or command line and save his file onto dics or other hard drive
ther format and reload!
email me for help at riskyb@austarnet.com.au
hope this helps


getting back files is a pane in the ...

[Edited on 13-6-2003 by RISKY^VW]

most of the files needed are school files . . . windows boots and she was using msn so i dunno . . . more details to come

mmm I would suggest that the files are not gone merely the refference to them in the file allocation table. Unless she has done something real weird you should be able to retrieve them without to much hassle. You will need a restore program to do this though.
ANyway it sounds like Rosky has it in hand.

ok basics here - have you gone to the "recycle bin"

yeh she has hehe

Adam,

She MUST NOT do anything with the PC and that includes starting it up everytime there is a write to the drive the data can be irretreivably lost.

The timing is really bad as I am moving house this weekend.

What we need to do is take the drive out and install it into another PC and boot off a floppy disk I will make for you ( I will email you the disk image - you make the disk ).

You then scan her disk using the floppy and restore her files TO THE DISK THAT WAS THE ORIGINAL DISK IN THE CURRENT PC. IE not to her disk if you do restore to her disk it will create a write over the data.

I will do this ASAP (But I am moving) when does she need her files ?

dunno wen they are needed . . . .

ill foward that info to her and tell her to sit tight otherwise she will probly take it to a computer place


thanks heaps fatboy
will await furthur instructions hehe

email it to adzslick@aol.com


better and more reliable than hotmail

I will do the disk now - you will need a copy of winimage to make a disk from the image (I'll find a link to the trial version).

The trouble is that a lot computer places will charge you and tell you its too late without even looking, anyone who is good enough to do do it will charge you an astronimcal amount to look and then realistically may not get a result.

This is an extremely expensive piece of software which is traceable to me so I'll have to ask that you delete it after you have finished and not to distribute it. - I'll take your word for it.

will destroy disk and delete it off my computer


speaking to her now so i will get an update on whats doing .....

If that prog won't do it I can send you some others but they start at about 3mb so it get s a little harder, but they are a little more powerful.
Things like Easyrecovery Pro and the likes.

Hi brad,

Doing the disk now - I haven't used easyrecovery pro I use the winternals adminpak - do you know of it (they make NTFSDOS PRO) ?

Haven't played with it too much. I use to do a bit of contract data recovery rebuilding FAT tables on the sun ultra boxs when the vector data got corrupted. Unix is much better to work with than bloody windows.
555BUG is more of a windows guru recoverer if not he seems to have every damn prog under the sun..

Image sent Adam - I made it self extracting so you dont need to use winimage.
My numbers in the mail if you have any probs - just not tonight - I'm going to bed.

Brad - not done anything with Eunics - prefer my OS to have balls (God thats OLD).

Between us all we'll sort him out. :thumb

Depends what format the drive is ... but couldn't you use a program like GetDataBack ... awesome little program ... also Nortons does one too .. less hass than what you boys are doing ...

If you've got it NTFS formated you'll tend to have more prob's than if its FAT formatted ...

Good Luck :thumb

I restore data on a regular basis - I'm sure there are ways that are less hassle than what "us boys" are doing, but Iv'e been doing this sort of thing for a number of years and have found that I have had the most succes from using this method.