Re: FN-FORUM: Data recovery - is there any chance at all??

date posted 14th May 2004 14:35

There is a chance if the data area hasn't been written over with the new
install.
Try a [program called Tiramisu , I think its called on-track desktop bundle
now.
You expand it onto a floppy which you then boot to.
I think there is a free trial which will show you the files, but not
recover. Then you pay for it and it will do the recovery.
It does need a second drive to do the back up to, and it doesn't actually
physically change the initial drive so you wont screw up your new install.

It takes quite a while as it actually reconstructs the files from the data
area, not the fat tables.
Best combine the two options..
Leave it running, and then have the stiff gins :)


Kenny

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth Varley" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 6:45 AM
Subject: FN-FORUM: Data recovery - is there any chance at all??


>
> Afternoon all
>
> I've just discovered that when my fiance recently reformatted his PC and
> installed a new OS, he somehow managed not to back up an essential
> folder. I'm now facing days of work to recreate some of the stuff that's
> been lost (why oh why is it that only some things were lost and the
> piece that took days to do has gone, instead of the really short easy
> bits??!!).
>
> Before I consign myself to an afternoon of stiff gins, can anyone tell
> me if there's any possible chance at all of recovering data when the
> hard drive's been reformatted, a new OS installed and the PC used for a
> month?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Elizabeth (with a lot less hair left than this morning)
>
>
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