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Jack Martinelli Kids delte files
Hi Jack
Just got back to find my documents empty. Haven't come accross this one before. Read your reply to my wife's question. Can you let me know, what I need to do. Thanks Iain |
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"Iain" wrote Hi Jack Just got back to find my documents empty. Haven't come accross this one before. Read your reply to my wife's question. Can you let me know, what I need to do. Thanks Iain I don't know what you should do now but now you know that back up is a computer user's best friend. -- Alias Use the Reply to Sender feature of your news reader program to email me. Utiliza Responder al Remitente para mandarme un mail. |
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Before you go too far and before Jack gets back to you. DON'T use the
computer! Don't move or copy files on the drive on which the folder was deleted. DON'T INSTALL recovery software on the computer! Doing so may overwrite the files that you want to recover. You will need recovery software that runs from a diskette. During the recovery process the recovery software will prompt you for a restore location, if at all possible you should restore to a different drive or even diskettes if possible, restoring on the recovery drive is not a good idea. Your chances of successful recovery depends greatly on you following this advice! I'm in a bit of a hurry now so I don't have time to dig out my recommendations for recovery software, I'm sure others will advise you on that. I just wanted to point out the importance of keeping the drive as it is until you recover the files. John Iain wrote: Hi Jack Just got back to find my documents empty. Haven't come accross this one before. Read your reply to my wife's question. Can you let me know, what I need to do. Thanks Iain |
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Sorry, How do I do that?
"Alias" wrote: "Iain" wrote Hi Jack Just got back to find my documents empty. Haven't come accross this one before. Read your reply to my wife's question. Can you let me know, what I need to do. Thanks Iain I don't know what you should do now but now you know that back up is a computer user's best friend. -- Alias Use the Reply to Sender feature of your news reader program to email me. Utiliza Responder al Remitente para mandarme un mail. |
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Ok, I'm at work now (I got a good job!), I dug this out that might be of
help to you: Not free: http://www.dtidata.com/data_recovery_software.htm Free: http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html Also, text files are easier to recover than graphic files. Jpeg's for example can be difficult to recover, so the type of files you had in that folder may influence the software choice you make. Trying to recover a whole folder is more difficult and iffy than recovering the files one by one. John John John wrote: Before you go too far and before Jack gets back to you. DON'T use the computer! Don't move or copy files on the drive on which the folder was deleted. DON'T INSTALL recovery software on the computer! Doing so may overwrite the files that you want to recover. You will need recovery software that runs from a diskette. During the recovery process the recovery software will prompt you for a restore location, if at all possible you should restore to a different drive or even diskettes if possible, restoring on the recovery drive is not a good idea. Your chances of successful recovery depends greatly on you following this advice! I'm in a bit of a hurry now so I don't have time to dig out my recommendations for recovery software, I'm sure others will advise you on that. I just wanted to point out the importance of keeping the drive as it is until you recover the files. John Iain wrote: Hi Jack Just got back to find my documents empty. Haven't come accross this one before. Read your reply to my wife's question. Can you let me know, what I need to do. Thanks Iain |
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Burn to a CD, copy to a second hard drive, either internal or external. If
you can afford it, an external USB hard drive is the best because you can remove it from your computer and put it where the kids can't get to it. Many come with an imaging program so you can "take a picture" of your drive and, if anything goes wrong, restore it exactly they way it was before. -- Alias Use the Reply to Sender feature of your news reader program to email me. Utiliza Responder al Remitente para mandarme un mail. "Iain" wrote in message ... Sorry, How do I do that? "Alias" wrote: "Iain" wrote Hi Jack Just got back to find my documents empty. Haven't come accross this one before. Read your reply to my wife's question. Can you let me know, what I need to do. Thanks Iain I don't know what you should do now but now you know that back up is a computer user's best friend. -- Alias Use the Reply to Sender feature of your news reader program to email me. Utiliza Responder al Remitente para mandarme un mail. |
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Thank you, John John, for replying before I returned and for providing such
ESSENTIAL advice. You are very correct! Iain, you must obtain some file recovery tool which can run without loading Windows and attempt the file/s recovery, hoping that they have not already been overwritten, which would now necessitate very expensive recovery techniques from the commercial recovery companies, such as those advertising in the back pages of PC Magazine. Here is my somewhat out-of-date file on these tools: File Recovery Tools EasyRecovery, $89, demo will retrieve five files and show what else can be retrieved. Retrieved files copied to another partition, hard drive, network drive, or removable media: http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecovery/ Fast File Undelete, $29, demo will retrieve files 15 kb or smaller. Retrieved files are copied to another drive: http://www.datarecoveryzone.com/undeleteit.asp DataBack, $22.95, demo available. Program is installed to other than the affected PC and you create a floppy disk for retrieval purposes. http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/~tkuur...x.htm#DataBack Recover4All, $49, demo will retrieve files up to 10 kb and show what else can be retrieved. Retrieved files are copied to another drive: http://www.recover4all.com/ --- Ron Badour, MS MVP W95/98 Systems Tips: http://badour.freewebsites.com/index.html ---- Ran across this and thought it might be of use to those concerned with data recovery operations. http://pjwalczak.com/scaven/index.php Regards, Jim Byrd ---- One option is "FileRestore" from Winternals Software-- http://www.winternals.com/products/r...ilerestore.asp This $39 utility recovers files deleted from any Windows XP/2000/NT/Me/9x system regardless of whether emptied from the Recycle Bin, deleted via a command prompt or with a removed directory, by a remote process or uninstall, etc. It's designed to be effective regardless of whether installed before or after an accidental deletion. FileRestore works on NTFS, FAT, and FAT32 drives. It recovers files (including compressed files) deleted from hard drives- plus floppy disks, Jaz, Zip, and even CompactFlash photo cards. Please note: Regardless of which recovery program is used, it is recommended that you-- To the extent possible stop all disk activity on your system without shutting the system down. Turn off any scheduled defragmentation and do not defrag your system until lost files are recovered. Close all applications including email and Web browsing software and, if removable media such as a floppy disk drive is available on your system, disconnect your system from the network as soon as is practical. This will reduce the possibility that deleted files will be overwritten. If installing FileRestore, we recommend that you download and install it on a second computer and follow the "Emergency Installation" procedure in the Help file. This procedure will allow you to run FileRestore from a floppy disk or network drive to help maximize the chances of recovery. Most file recovery utilities are unable to recover data from accidentally formatted partitions. "Disk Commander" from Winternals Software is a utility designed for this purpose, among other things: http://www.winternals.com/products/r...kcommander.asp - Paul (a Winternals employee) ---- And "Restoration". Freeware. Works great. http://hccweb1.bai.ne.jp/~hcj58401/ ----- http://www.briggsoft.com/dsnoop.htm ----- File Recovery Software Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, Linux Download and try Free Demo www.r-tt.com ----- Data Recovery 06.17.03 By Edward Mendelson http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1091334,00.asp ---- Iain, if your personal data is particularly important, you may first wish to discus the situation with a recovery specialist firm, who may evaluate your disk for a small or no fee, and better advise you. If the files haven't been overwritten, such a recovery for them is almost trivial. Hard Disk Data Recovery Expert data recovery on all systems Free evaluation. Techs on call 24/7 www.drivelabs.us File Recovery File Recovery Service Free Evaluation Please call www.drivecrash.com ------- Please keep us advised, as I do not often see this issue. And once again, Thank you, John John. -- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "John John" wrote in message ... Ok, I'm at work now (I got a good job!), I dug this out that might be of help to you: Not free: http://www.dtidata.com/data_recovery_software.htm Free: http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html Also, text files are easier to recover than graphic files. Jpeg's for example can be difficult to recover, so the type of files you had in that folder may influence the software choice you make. Trying to recover a whole folder is more difficult and iffy than recovering the files one by one. John John John wrote: Before you go too far and before Jack gets back to you. DON'T use the computer! Don't move or copy files on the drive on which the folder was deleted. DON'T INSTALL recovery software on the computer! Doing so may overwrite the files that you want to recover. You will need recovery software that runs from a diskette. During the recovery process the recovery software will prompt you for a restore location, if at all possible you should restore to a different drive or even diskettes if possible, restoring on the recovery drive is not a good idea. Your chances of successful recovery depends greatly on you following this advice! I'm in a bit of a hurry now so I don't have time to dig out my recommendations for recovery software, I'm sure others will advise you on that. I just wanted to point out the importance of keeping the drive as it is until you recover the files. John Iain wrote: Hi Jack Just got back to find my documents empty. Haven't come accross this one before. Read your reply to my wife's question. Can you let me know, what I need to do. Thanks Iain |
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You're welcome Jack. I didn't want to butt into a post specifically and
directly addressed to you but I thought it quite important that the poster be advised of best practices to increase chances of successful recovery. I thought, "if Jack doesn't show up here for another 12 hours or so this guy may completely lose all chances of recovering his files", so I jumped in. I knew you would follow up and give him proper and in depth advice... and you have! Quite a list you have there! I'm keeping a copy of it. I'll go over it and see if I can add to it, if so I'll repost my updated list. Regards; John Jack E Martinelli wrote: Thank you, John John, for replying before I returned and for providing such ESSENTIAL advice. You are very correct! Iain, you must obtain some file recovery tool which can run without loading Windows and attempt the file/s recovery, hoping that they have not already been overwritten, which would now necessitate very expensive recovery techniques from the commercial recovery companies, such as those advertising in the back pages of PC Magazine. Here is my somewhat out-of-date file on these tools: File Recovery Tools EasyRecovery, $89, demo will retrieve five files and show what else can be retrieved. Retrieved files copied to another partition, hard drive, network drive, or removable media: http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecovery/ Fast File Undelete, $29, demo will retrieve files 15 kb or smaller. Retrieved files are copied to another drive: http://www.datarecoveryzone.com/undeleteit.asp DataBack, $22.95, demo available. Program is installed to other than the affected PC and you create a floppy disk for retrieval purposes. http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/~tkuur...x.htm#DataBack Recover4All, $49, demo will retrieve files up to 10 kb and show what else can be retrieved. Retrieved files are copied to another drive: http://www.recover4all.com/ --- Ron Badour, MS MVP W95/98 Systems Tips: http://badour.freewebsites.com/index.html ---- Ran across this and thought it might be of use to those concerned with data recovery operations. http://pjwalczak.com/scaven/index.php Regards, Jim Byrd ---- One option is "FileRestore" from Winternals Software-- http://www.winternals.com/products/r...ilerestore.asp This $39 utility recovers files deleted from any Windows XP/2000/NT/Me/9x system regardless of whether emptied from the Recycle Bin, deleted via a command prompt or with a removed directory, by a remote process or uninstall, etc. It's designed to be effective regardless of whether installed before or after an accidental deletion. FileRestore works on NTFS, FAT, and FAT32 drives. It recovers files (including compressed files) deleted from hard drives- plus floppy disks, Jaz, Zip, and even CompactFlash photo cards. Please note: Regardless of which recovery program is used, it is recommended that you-- To the extent possible stop all disk activity on your system without shutting the system down. Turn off any scheduled defragmentation and do not defrag your system until lost files are recovered. Close all applications including email and Web browsing software and, if removable media such as a floppy disk drive is available on your system, disconnect your system from the network as soon as is practical. This will reduce the possibility that deleted files will be overwritten. If installing FileRestore, we recommend that you download and install it on a second computer and follow the "Emergency Installation" procedure in the Help file. This procedure will allow you to run FileRestore from a floppy disk or network drive to help maximize the chances of recovery. Most file recovery utilities are unable to recover data from accidentally formatted partitions. "Disk Commander" from Winternals Software is a utility designed for this purpose, among other things: http://www.winternals.com/products/r...kcommander.asp - Paul (a Winternals employee) ---- And "Restoration". Freeware. Works great. http://hccweb1.bai.ne.jp/~hcj58401/ ----- http://www.briggsoft.com/dsnoop.htm ----- File Recovery Software Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, Linux Download and try Free Demo www.r-tt.com ----- Data Recovery 06.17.03 By Edward Mendelson http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1091334,00.asp ---- Iain, if your personal data is particularly important, you may first wish to discus the situation with a recovery specialist firm, who may evaluate your disk for a small or no fee, and better advise you. If the files haven't been overwritten, such a recovery for them is almost trivial. Hard Disk Data Recovery Expert data recovery on all systems Free evaluation. Techs on call 24/7 www.drivelabs.us File Recovery File Recovery Service Free Evaluation Please call www.drivecrash.com ------- Please keep us advised, as I do not often see this issue. And once again, Thank you, John John. |
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Once again, John, you are absolutely correct!
And I never interpret any comment from anyone as "butting in to my response". We are a helping community here in the Millennium ng's, and your contribution here is just superb, . a model for others, if I may say. Thank you very much, and you have served Iain very well, -- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "John John" wrote in message ... You're welcome Jack. I didn't want to butt into a post specifically and directly addressed to you but I thought it quite important that the poster be advised of best practices to increase chances of successful recovery. I thought, "if Jack doesn't show up here for another 12 hours or so this guy may completely lose all chances of recovering his files", so I jumped in. I knew you would follow up and give him proper and in depth advice... and you have! Quite a list you have there! I'm keeping a copy of it. I'll go over it and see if I can add to it, if so I'll repost my updated list. Regards; John Jack E Martinelli wrote: Thank you, John John, for replying before I returned and for providing such ESSENTIAL advice. You are very correct! Iain, you must obtain some file recovery tool which can run without loading Windows and attempt the file/s recovery, hoping that they have not already been overwritten, which would now necessitate very expensive recovery techniques from the commercial recovery companies, such as those advertising in the back pages of PC Magazine. Here is my somewhat out-of-date file on these tools: File Recovery Tools EasyRecovery, $89, demo will retrieve five files and show what else can be retrieved. Retrieved files copied to another partition, hard drive, network drive, or removable media: http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecovery/ Fast File Undelete, $29, demo will retrieve files 15 kb or smaller. Retrieved files are copied to another drive: http://www.datarecoveryzone.com/undeleteit.asp DataBack, $22.95, demo available. Program is installed to other than the affected PC and you create a floppy disk for retrieval purposes. http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/~tkuur...x.htm#DataBack Recover4All, $49, demo will retrieve files up to 10 kb and show what else can be retrieved. Retrieved files are copied to another drive: http://www.recover4all.com/ --- Ron Badour, MS MVP W95/98 Systems Tips: http://badour.freewebsites.com/index.html ---- Ran across this and thought it might be of use to those concerned with data recovery operations. http://pjwalczak.com/scaven/index.php Regards, Jim Byrd ---- One option is "FileRestore" from Winternals Software-- http://www.winternals.com/products/r...ilerestore.asp This $39 utility recovers files deleted from any Windows XP/2000/NT/Me/9x system regardless of whether emptied from the Recycle Bin, deleted via a command prompt or with a removed directory, by a remote process or uninstall, etc. It's designed to be effective regardless of whether installed before or after an accidental deletion. FileRestore works on NTFS, FAT, and FAT32 drives. It recovers files (including compressed files) deleted from hard drives- plus floppy disks, Jaz, Zip, and even CompactFlash photo cards. Please note: Regardless of which recovery program is used, it is recommended that you-- To the extent possible stop all disk activity on your system without shutting the system down. Turn off any scheduled defragmentation and do not defrag your system until lost files are recovered. Close all applications including email and Web browsing software and, if removable media such as a floppy disk drive is available on your system, disconnect your system from the network as soon as is practical. This will reduce the possibility that deleted files will be overwritten. If installing FileRestore, we recommend that you download and install it on a second computer and follow the "Emergency Installation" procedure in the Help file. This procedure will allow you to run FileRestore from a floppy disk or network drive to help maximize the chances of recovery. Most file recovery utilities are unable to recover data from accidentally formatted partitions. "Disk Commander" from Winternals Software is a utility designed for this purpose, among other things: http://www.winternals.com/products/r...kcommander.asp - Paul (a Winternals employee) ---- And "Restoration". Freeware. Works great. http://hccweb1.bai.ne.jp/~hcj58401/ ----- http://www.briggsoft.com/dsnoop.htm ----- File Recovery Software Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, Linux Download and try Free Demo www.r-tt.com ----- Data Recovery 06.17.03 By Edward Mendelson http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1091334,00.asp ---- Iain, if your personal data is particularly important, you may first wish to discus the situation with a recovery specialist firm, who may evaluate your disk for a small or no fee, and better advise you. If the files haven't been overwritten, such a recovery for them is almost trivial. Hard Disk Data Recovery Expert data recovery on all systems Free evaluation. Techs on call 24/7 www.drivelabs.us File Recovery File Recovery Service Free Evaluation Please call www.drivecrash.com ------- Please keep us advised, as I do not often see this issue. And once again, Thank you, John John. |
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Do you have anything new to report, Iain?
-- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "Iain" wrote in message ... Hi Jack Just got back to find my documents empty. Haven't come accross this one before. Read your reply to my wife's question. Can you let me know, what I need to do. Thanks Iain |
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