Accidentally my whole hard drive, HELP
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This has got to be the worst day of my life, yes I just accidentally "shift deleted" 200GB of my secondary drive d:\ which contains all my precious data - music, games, manga, anime etc
After frantically searching through the interwebs, I'm now using Undelete Plus to recover bits and pieces of my lost stuffs.
Here are some questions:
1. What data recovery apps should I use aside from Undelete Plus? What are you using?
2. Should I leave my D:\ alone while recovering the lost data? I'm not sure how it works but I'm afraid anything "new" added there would screw up the recovery.
3. Lastly is raid 5 a good idea and what software do you use to backup your entire hard disk?
Thanks in advance and pardon me if this is not the right place to ask.
After frantically searching through the interwebs, I'm now using Undelete Plus to recover bits and pieces of my lost stuffs.
Here are some questions:
1. What data recovery apps should I use aside from Undelete Plus? What are you using?
2. Should I leave my D:\ alone while recovering the lost data? I'm not sure how it works but I'm afraid anything "new" added there would screw up the recovery.
3. Lastly is raid 5 a good idea and what software do you use to backup your entire hard disk?
Thanks in advance and pardon me if this is not the right place to ask.
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Yea, don't modify that drive AT ALL. If you add anything to it, it might overwrite your deleted data there. Pretty much anything you delete just gets something extra attached letting the OS know that its a deleted file and to ignore it. I haven't had the need to undelete anything so good luck getting it back.
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I use REST2514. It's a bit lowtech but it gets what I need to to get done, done.
Just remember that time after deletion is indirectly proportional to chances of recovery of files (i.e.: the longer the wait, the less of a chance to get files recovered)
Just remember that time after deletion is indirectly proportional to chances of recovery of files (i.e.: the longer the wait, the less of a chance to get files recovered)
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I believe [z] would be your man for this.
Personally, I just ghosted an image of a clean install with apps all set up once and have that ready for a restore should the need arise.
My actual files I just copy to harddisks, then swap them out and put them into safe storage. If you're worried about keeping things synched up, you could use filesync or something, but I prefer just keeping complete revisions of my home dir.
I once lost an external drive while actually backing it up and so lost the most recent 5 gb of data that hadn't been mirrored in previous backups. I however had had those on an mp3 player, too, but deleted them already. Luckily, the player was FAT formatted, so I restored the data with Easy Recovery or RMF, not sure which one it was at this remove. Both these apps will probably make experts groan in agony, but I managed to recover what data I was missing.
Best of luck to you, but 200gigs without backups? Seriously?
what software do you use to backup your entire hard disk?
Personally, I just ghosted an image of a clean install with apps all set up once and have that ready for a restore should the need arise.
My actual files I just copy to harddisks, then swap them out and put them into safe storage. If you're worried about keeping things synched up, you could use filesync or something, but I prefer just keeping complete revisions of my home dir.
What data recovery apps should I use aside from Undelete Plus? What are you using?
I once lost an external drive while actually backing it up and so lost the most recent 5 gb of data that hadn't been mirrored in previous backups. I however had had those on an mp3 player, too, but deleted them already. Luckily, the player was FAT formatted, so I restored the data with Easy Recovery or RMF, not sure which one it was at this remove. Both these apps will probably make experts groan in agony, but I managed to recover what data I was missing.
Best of luck to you, but 200gigs without backups? Seriously?
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Thanks for all the input thus far, recovery progress currently at 25% (45+GB)
I just learned it the hard way ;_; Will check out all the suggestions mentioned.
Thanks again.
gibbous wrote...
Best of luck to you, but 200gigs without backups? Seriously?I just learned it the hard way ;_; Will check out all the suggestions mentioned.
Thanks again.
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1.If you're using System Restore,you can restore lil bit of your data .
2.Use REST2514 and Undelete to recover your precious data.(hope that works well,as long as you don't SHRED it)
3.Even you recover your drive,please don't be angry if you can't bring it back all .
Good luck !
2.Use REST2514 and Undelete to recover your precious data.(hope that works well,as long as you don't SHRED it)
3.Even you recover your drive,please don't be angry if you can't bring it back all .
Good luck !
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Tegumi wrote...
Raven X Petrelli wrote...
Use REST2514What an original idea. It's as if that idea had never even been posted in this thread. Oh, wait.
HUmarMatt wrote...
I use REST2514. It's a bit lowtech but it gets what I need to to get done, done.Yeah,he has told that before .
But,I already know it BEFORE he suggests it .
So,I'll tell that again .
also,don't put this thread bad again .
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But,I already know it BEFORE he suggests it .
So,I'll tell that again .
So,I'll tell that again .
How does posting something that was already mentioned help the OP with his lost hard drive problem. No one cares who thought of it first, and just because you may have thought of it first doesn't mean its going to suddenly be useful for the OP
don't put this thread bad again .
because repeating the same thing is sooooo helpful.
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Raven X Petrelli wrote...
Yeah,he has told that before .
But,I already know it BEFORE he suggests it.
He still posted before you, which makes your post redundant. Then again. It's redundant telling you it was redundant.
Your bad grammar is painful.
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Black Jesus JC wrote...
But,I already know it BEFORE he suggests it .
So,I'll tell that again .
So,I'll tell that again .
How does posting something that was already mentioned help the OP with his lost hard drive problem. No one cares who thought of it first, and just because you may have thought of it first doesn't mean its going to suddenly be useful for the OP
don't put this thread bad again .
because repeating the same thing is sooooo helpful.
You sure?
But,think about the girl who told me like that .
Also,it was just a suggestion .
I didn't mean to repeat that word again and again .
Phew . .
Let's get back to the topic again before all users think that I'm a troublemaker in this place .
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It's also worth looking at Hirens Boot CD to check if you can recover your hard drive.
It's basically a collection of tools on a boot cd.
It's basically a collection of tools on a boot cd.
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Well ...at long as the the drive itself is undamaged, and not wrote over. Most basic undelete style programs will do the job.
God I hate data recovery and hard drive repair.
God I hate data recovery and hard drive repair.
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I realize this is horse and barn door but:
As King of the "OH NO Second" I learned the hard way many years ago (probably before most of you were born)
True it was only a 1.0 gig drive on a 8086 and 256 meg of ram. Well, I was trying to format a floppy (5") and was not paying attention.
Seems I sorta forgot to tell the computer to format A and not C
Clicked OK and went off to eat or something They weren't particularly speedy back then
Came back to a black screen with little white blinking cursor
I now know better and I have invested in two USB external drives
I have clicked automatic back up on both computers
So no matter how stupid I get (you cannot in your wildest dreams imagine)
I have a back up for each computer
Windows backup will back up all the drives on your computer and it does it in background
Of course if you dont have windows there is back up software out there
Hard drives cases with usb are cheap and so are drives on ebay and the like
If you get ATA instead of SATA its even cheaper
If you get 2.5 instead of 3.5 its cheaper still
I got two cases and two 350 gig ata drives for less than 100 (not including shipping but choose ground or usps and its cheap)
I realize this is horse and barn door but:
As King of the "OH NO Second" I learned the hard way many years ago (probably before most of you were born)
True it was only a 1.0 gig drive on a 8086 and 256 meg of ram. Well, I was trying to format a floppy (5") and was not paying attention.
Seems I sorta forgot to tell the computer to format A and not C
Clicked OK and went off to eat or something They weren't particularly speedy back then
Came back to a black screen with little white blinking cursor
I now know better and I have invested in two USB external drives
I have clicked automatic back up on both computers
So no matter how stupid I get (you cannot in your wildest dreams imagine)
I have a back up for each computer
Windows backup will back up all the drives on your computer and it does it in background
Of course if you dont have windows there is back up software out there
Hard drives cases with usb are cheap and so are drives on ebay and the like
If you get ATA instead of SATA its even cheaper
If you get 2.5 instead of 3.5 its cheaper still
I got two cases and two 350 gig ata drives for less than 100 (not including shipping but choose ground or usps and its cheap)
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I dont remember a name, but I know there are several linux live cd's that will do the job for you, easily and without risk (because its a live cd you dont touch the hd before you exsplicitly ask the recovery program to do so, which means you can even use it if you deleted the contents of your primary partition with your OS on. :)
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Pony wrote...
.Not sure but this may have it
http://www.livecdlist.com/
If you only use the category 'Rescue', then that is EXACTLY what I was talking about :) Really nice that you found a list, since I was to lazy to do it my self :P
Though one thing is quite clear from the options, you have to look very carefully at what live cd you choose, since many of them just include the powerfull basic tools, many without a GUI. This means that you have the power to do it what ever you want, but you maybe wont understand the consequence.
So the important thing here is of cause to try to find the more user friendly destributions aimed at system recovery :)