(06-23-2010, 08:23 PM)Diathorus Wrote: [ -> ]I bought an external hard disk case, and it somehow fu**ed up my data on my old HD... I am on my old PC now and it forced me to format everything into a single partition...
I lost 35 GB of ISO's... Now I have to dump them all again!!
On top of that I lost 6 GB of screenshots (from WoW that I played when I had my own guild with 500 members and friends...) and other important data I will never get back...
Is there a way to retrieve everything back, or something???
I heard there are programs to recover, if so, which?
This really hurts 
It's like I haven't lived for 4 years... 4 years work and life is formatted!
its my advice
Forget about what happen
Start a new life my friend
Its work for me(Its true!!!)
use this, same thing happend to me months ago and its a real life saver
RUNTIME GETDATABACK FOR FAT-NTFS 3.66
search in google for it
If you're recovering files with ANY utility, you need to recover them to a different Drive, otherwise any files you recover will overwrite others that you would want.
Recuva is one of the best if not the best free file recovery tool out there.
If you don't have any other drives, you can get flash drives or even hard drives pretty cheap nowadays (at least from
tigerdirect anyway, although you could check out
newegg as well).
I had something similar happen to me about 6 years ago (it was more of "K be back in a week" *return* "Back... hey where's the computer?" "We got a new one so we threw that other one away"). I lost everything, but because of that I learned the importance of a backup. Since then I've always had a back up. In fact, I have a backup of the back up. If you want to keep this sort of thing from happening again, I would suggest either do what I did (get external hard drive(s) and use Sync Toy to keep my files syncronized) or get an online backup service like carbonite.
Hope this helps!
(06-25-2010, 02:50 PM)Lectrode Wrote: [ -> ]If you're recovering files with ANY utility, you need to recover them with a different Drive
It's a bad idea to even have the OS running on a disk which has sensitive corrupted files you want to recover.. The best thing would be booting on a completely different drive & only accessing the corrupted drive during recovery process.
Buy new drive, install operating system on it, hook the old hdd to pc via sata or usb->sata adapter and recover from corrupted drive to your new drive. If you don't have anything sensitive there, of course you can use your current drive and extract lost files to it / other drive through it. Just not the best thing to do in general.
(06-26-2010, 01:01 AM)Ocean Wrote: [ -> ] (06-25-2010, 02:50 PM)Lectrode Wrote: [ -> ]If you're recovering files with ANY utility, you need to recover them with a different Drive
It's a bad idea to even have the OS running on a disk which has sensitive corrupted files you want to recover.. The best thing would be booting on a completely different drive & only accessing the corrupted drive during recovery process.
Buy new drive, install operating system on it, hook the old hdd to pc via sata or usb->sata adapter and recover from corrupted drive to your new drive. If you don't have anything sensitive there, of course you can use your current drive and extract lost files to it / other drive through it. Just not the best thing to do in general.
Also very true. My main point was that the recovered files need to be recovered
to a drive other than that which they were recovered from.
Don't know whether this is a miracle or not, but I got almost everything back
(the unimportant files can be regained so it's not a problem)
Took me 20 hours trasferring everything and splitting everything to 2gb and copying it to a flash drive >.<
(06-26-2010, 05:14 PM)Diathorus Wrote: [ -> ]Don't know whether this is a miracle or not, but I got almost everything back (the unimportant files can be regained so it's not a problem)
Took me 20 hours trasferring everything and splitting everything to 2gb and copying it to a flash drive >.<
Could have turned out worse. Glad you got your files back
I wish dat stuff don't happen to me....Say NO to External HDD.....:p
Create a backup of the HDD next time,see ya
(06-27-2010, 01:02 PM)admin89 Wrote: [ -> ]Create a backup of the HDD next time,see ya
i have never
ever
ever
ever
created a hard drive backup
then again, ive only had a hard drive crash once on me and i recovered everything just fine. cause it was my second drive that only has games/series/other crap on it that can easily be replaced
if it was my OS drive that would have mattered either, nothing uber important on there