Wave the Sails

I've lost my entire hard drive.

Had started copying onto CD yesterday as we are getting a laptop in Oz, and the whole lot has gone. 6 years of stuff. Still my own fault, should have backed up. Just ironic that that was what I was trying to do!

Any ideas??

Mrs J.

ABCDiamond

There are ways to get it all back, but generally expensive

If it is a consideration, check your local computer shop, before doing anything else to the Hard Drive.

Wave the Sails

Thanks for that - what a plonker.

Am just going through everything I can think of before resorting to computer shop.

Take care

ABCDiamond

What did you do to wipe it ?

Wave the Sails

I was just copying files over to CD, then left to take BIL to ariport. When I got back it was asking various questions and I just clicked 'yes' withouth thinking. Totally stupid. My Main PC man has just emigrated to Spain (silly man!!!!)

Hutch

If you haven't written to the drive then the data can still be recovered. I recently used EasyRecovery Professional to retrieve 20Gb of 'deleted' data off a client's drive, it's just crucial that you don't write to the drive at all as whilst your files names have been removed from the look-up table, they're still there.

Wave the Sails

OK, that sounds good. Can I get it off the net?

Thanks so much

DagBoy

As ABC said - it all rather depends. What did you do to delete the files? What are the symptoms? - does the PC still boot up? is the hard disk still working for the operating system?

Also, what operating system? what file system? what size hard disk?

There are a number of things you can try, just be aware that for some of them it really helps if you know what you are doing.

Cheers,

DagBoy

Wave the Sails

Hi Dagboy,
That's the problem, I don't know what I'm doing!
It could be any nunmber of things. I still have a C drive, and the files are on there, but it just sayd 'files have been moved/removed'
Will have to phone professional. Am maths/statistics person not computers..............

Hutch

If you're a Windows user then Easy Recovery should be able to help - I do data recovery as a bit of sideline it has rarely let me down (then only because of physical drive damage).

DagBoy

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