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| Ruth |
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Jacquie, do it. What do you have to lose. Everything is gone already. Right?
Wrong. I had a hard drive recovered by a friend of mine. I did a full
restore and said something to him about lost files and he said what MC says.
It's there. Give it a try.
Ruth
"MC" <MC@ProgressiveSystemsInc.org> wrote in message
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> Been reading this with some interest.
>
> **HOW** do you know everything is gone from the computer's hard drive?
> Yes,
> yes..I know..nothing comes up. But...has anyone reputable taken the hard
> drive out, and 'slaved' it to another computer and *looked* at the
> directory
> on the affected drive? Everything may still be there, just have to do a
> little creative recovery.
>
> Jacquie..if you so desire...and if you trust me...carefully remove the
> hard
> drive from the laptop...if the laptop is fairly new, the hard drive will
> slide right out with a minimum of effort. Then, put it in a baggie and
> then
> wrap it thoroughly in bubble wrap and mail it to me. I will look at the
> drive and if it anything is recoverable, I would be more than happy to do
> so.
>
> If this is something you wish to do, send me an email and I will give you
> the details on where to mail it.
>
> MC
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| Bill Leary |
"Ruth" <klutzyruth@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Jacquie, do it. What do you have to lose. Everything is gone already. Right?
> Wrong. I had a hard drive recovered by a friend of mine. I did a full
> restore and said something to him about lost files and he said what MC says.
> It's there. Give it a try.
If they triggered the HP restore feature, it's overwritten the directory tracks
and some percentage of the disk. That stuff is just plain gone with no chance
of recovery. On the other hand, if they did something less creative, like, say,
partition the drive it might be possible to get everything back.
As Ruth says, you've got very little to loose. Maybe the drive gets lost or
clobbered in the mail. Other than that, worst case, MC mails it back and says
"Sorry, they low level formatted it and it's really gone," and you put it back
in and pick up where you left off.
- Bill
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| Ruth |
I just know that the IBM restore disks left all my other data on my hard
drive.
If it was partitioned, I dunno. I was just grateful for the recovery. A
chance is a chance.
Ruth
"Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com> wrote in message
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> "Ruth" <klutzyruth@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:rTQSd.4285$Ba3.4088@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
>> Jacquie, do it. What do you have to lose. Everything is gone already.
>> Right?
>> Wrong. I had a hard drive recovered by a friend of mine. I did a full
>> restore and said something to him about lost files and he said what MC
>> says.
>> It's there. Give it a try.
>
> If they triggered the HP restore feature, it's overwritten the directory
> tracks
> and some percentage of the disk. That stuff is just plain gone with no
> chance
> of recovery. On the other hand, if they did something less creative,
> like, say,
> partition the drive it might be possible to get everything back.
>
> As Ruth says, you've got very little to loose. Maybe the drive gets lost
> or
> clobbered in the mail. Other than that, worst case, MC mails it back and
> says
> "Sorry, they low level formatted it and it's really gone," and you put it
> back
> in and pick up where you left off.
>
> - Bill
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| Bill Leary |
"Ruth" <klutzyruth@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I just know that the IBM restore disks left all my other data on my hard
> drive.
The restore feature (the HP one anyway) is designed to put the computer back
into a "factory fresh" state. It doesn't use restore disks, but rather a
reserved portion of the hard drive which is an "image" of what the system looked
like when it left the factory. When you trigger a recovery, it copies the data
from the recovery store onto the main part of the disk, thus writing over
whatever was already there. It *appeared* to do a format before it did the
restore, but now that you mention it, I'm not sure it was a low-level format.
If it was high-level, then at least some (perhaps quite a lot) of the stuff that
was added after the system was bought might be out there. Getting it back would
be difficult, since the directory tracks are overwritten by the recovery, but it
might be possible. More so if common maintainance (especially defragmentation)
had been performed regularly on the system. An interesting problem.
> If it was partitioned, I dunno.
Even easier, if that's ALL that was done. A partition operation doesn't even
clobber the (most of) the directory entries. Just sets the primary one to say
there's nothing there. All the sub-directories are still intact, just no longer
attached. An informed person with a disk editor can just turn them back on and
get everything back. I've done it a couple of times myself.
> I was just grateful for the recovery. A chance is a chance.
As you say. I agree.
- Bill
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