On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:19:52 +0900, "necoandjeff" <spam@schrepfer.com>
brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>Michael Cash wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:36:05 +0900, "mr.sumo.snr."
>> <mr_sumo@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>>
>>> "Sigi Rindler" <srindler@da2.so-net.ne.jp> wrote in message
>>> news:42ae2b61$1_1@spool9-west.superfeed.net...
>>>> I have just done something very stupid since I was still half
>>>> asleep.
>>>> I erased the contents of  partition E, however, it was partition E
>>>> on another machine which is connected to the same monitor!!!
>>>>
>>>> I realized it before emptying the recycle bin and restored the data.
>>>> However, only a fraction of 40 GB was restored.
>>>> The recycle bin is now empty, and drive E shows 38 GB of free space.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way to get the data back? I haven't touched this
>>>> partition since the mishap occurred.
>>>> I have a couple of data recovery softwares, but I'd rather ask an
>>>> expert before destroying something that can still be salvaged.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any hope, or do I need to jump from the basement window?:-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I used something called DiskCommander in a similar situation a few
>>> years ago http://www.pillar-solutions.com/p_disk_commander/ it
>>> worked - that's all I can remember about it.
>>>
>>> Sadly, the 50Gb of music files that it recovered - three years of
>>> careful collecting, were lost, together with a further 100Gb of
>>> files,  when a seperate hard disk crashed, and no matter what I
>>> tried I couldn't rescue jack shit a second time.  I need one of
>>> those hard disk platter scanners like they used in CSI once - and
>>> the 50,000 dollars they probably cost.
>
>For high volume backups, all you need is an external hard drive that you can
>plug in easily (firewire) to keep backups of stuff. For the really important
>stuff (pictures and docs) I keep a set of backup DVDs at home and one at the
>office.

For some odd reason, I read your comments as being in reply to what I
wrote. Then I noticed that you deleted everything I wrote.




--

Michael Cash

"Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right, Mr. Cash.
Clowns and jokers."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College