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justEdnow
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 Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:36 am Post subject: computer genius help needed!!!! |
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Right i just been pottering with the lap top and have decided to put it through its maintenance business, it has gone in to disk cleanup and said its deleting temporary internet files and cookies and carried on....but when I have cme back to it the thing has gone and deleted all the my documents files including pics etc etc and moved my music in to some other file...... 
What I want to know is does this mean I cannot get these files back???
Its rather important guys as al this includes my C.V, job letters, purchase receipts, passwords and 2 years worth of pics from family holidays to car shows to my original before wux3y pics and rebuild pics of the mk1......... 
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madads
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| Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:34 am Post subject: |
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Not that clued up on pc's but you could ask on this site? http://www.pcguide.com/vb/index.php?
or see if there are any downloads that might retreave the files on here? http://www.download.com/
hope this was of help  good luck
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mk1matt
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| Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:50 am Post subject: |
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| If its XP maybe try a system restore, dont know if that'l take back the files your after, its in the control panel. |
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TurboTom
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| Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:42 am Post subject: |
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pm glen tricky or jacko dude!
shitter, good luck!  |
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GITs
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| Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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DO NOT DO ANY OF THE ABOVE!!!
when you lose data you are probably best off going to a specialist, search the net for data recovery experts in your area... thats all i can suggest, but do not I REPEAT do NOT touch that disk by yourself without a qualified expert... |
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justEdnow
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| Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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Cheers for the words of wisdom guys.... 
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Jacko
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That windows recovery doesn't touch personal files as far as im aware mate, so running it ain't gonna help!
System restore takes snapshots of system files at regular intervals in case of corruption, loss, or whatever. I've never relied on it to get me outa trouble, and i turn it off.
The disk clean up wizard ONLY touches system files mate, so it can't have deleted them...the only reason it would have touched them is if you had selected the 'compress files' (and select from a range) say 30 days...it would then compress all files that are data stamped older than 30 days, or from when last modified.
The only thing i can think to do is search for your files first, using * as a wildcard; i.e. *.doc, *.xls, *.gif, *.jpg etc etc and see if you can find them, make sure you change the settings to search hidden files and the complete HD. (the root of C: or whatever is your system disk. (you never know..??  )
Are you sure you haven't logged on a different profile? as each profile has a different 'my docs' folder used to organise files...check this mate, as im hoping you're just being ginger 
if that doesn't work then try some recovery software...something like 'Get data back' 'Ontrack Easy Recovery' or 'R-Studio'. Windows, if it has deleted them wouldn't have written over the data, all it does it arrange with the file allocation table to write over the blocks again, for it to delete data it would have to write a series of 0's and 1's over the blocks and windows doesn't do this so you should be able to recover some if not all of the data, if its in a usable state still is another matter, but there isn't any harm in trying...You want to recover the data, if you can to another HD, or to a separate partition so you can (if need be format if data is corrupt)
You could take your HD to a data recovery company, BUT this is VERY expensive, last time i checked i think it wa about 100 pound for 1Mb but the prices have probably come down a bit now as this was years ago. Either way, it will probably cost more than its worth to recover 
Really hope you can sort this out mate, good luck and let us know how you get on.
Regs
Jacko.
Edit: P.S. Next time make sure you make back ups, your laptop must have either a cd or dvd writer drive surely?
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Jason
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| Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:11 am Post subject: |
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| Jacko wrote: | | Edit: P.S. Next time make sure you make back ups, your laptop must have either a cd or dvd writer drive surely? |
That's it Jacko kick him whilst he's down
I did a similar thing Ed, I lost all my family pictures, my docs and some of my finest porn because a hard drive crashed on me.
What you have done using disk clean up should not have touched any other file other than the temp systems files, windows install files etc...
I feel sure that the data is there somewhere. Good luck.
Oh and to recover 30mb of data in a clean room in London was going to cost me £500  So if all else fails, you are going to have to do some soul searching.
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Jacko
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| Jason wrote: | | Jacko wrote: | | Edit: P.S. Next time make sure you make back ups, your laptop must have either a cd or dvd writer drive surely? |
That's it Jacko kick him whilst he's down |
Not trying too, but i here it all the time, and people don't learn. i bet you're not backing up are you Jay, even tho its happened before... 
If all else fails, learn from your mistakes 
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Jason
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"a smart man learns from his own mistakes, but a truly wise man learns from other peoples' mistakes"
Are you backing up as well young sir?
I know I aren't, this laptop is brand new and will NEVER fail, you hear me, NEVER
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Jacko
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| Jason wrote: | "a smart man learns from his own mistakes, but a truly wise man learns from other peoples' mistakes"
Are you backing up as well young sir?
I know I aren't, this laptop is brand new and will NEVER fail, you hear me, NEVER |
i've got a domain controller from witch i access my public profile so yes...i back up daily!   
(only cuz i need too, not cuz im a geek!)
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justEdnow
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| Jacko wrote: | That windows recovery doesn't touch personal files as far as im aware mate, so running it ain't gonna help!
System restore takes snapshots of system files at regular intervals in case of corruption, loss, or whatever. I've never relied on it to get me outa trouble, and i turn it off.
The disk clean up wizard ONLY touches system files mate, so it can't have deleted them...the only reason it would have touched them is if you had selected the 'compress files' (and select from a range) say 30 days...it would then compress all files that are data stamped older than 30 days, or from when last modified.
The only thing i can think to do is search for your files first, using * as a wildcard; i.e. *.doc, *.xls, *.gif, *.jpg etc etc and see if you can find them, make sure you change the settings to search hidden files and the complete HD. (the root of C: or whatever is your system disk. (you never know..?? )
Are you sure you haven't logged on a different profile? as each profile has a different 'my docs' folder used to organise files...check this mate, as im hoping you're just being ginger
if that doesn't work then try some recovery software...something like 'Get data back' 'Ontrack Easy Recovery' or 'R-Studio'. Windows, if it has deleted them wouldn't have written over the data, all it does it arrange with the file allocation table to write over the blocks again, for it to delete data it would have to write a series of 0's and 1's over the blocks and windows doesn't do this so you should be able to recover some if not all of the data, if its in a usable state still is another matter, but there isn't any harm in trying...You want to recover the data, if you can to another HD, or to a separate partition so you can (if need be format if data is corrupt)
You could take your HD to a data recovery company, BUT this is VERY expensive, last time i checked i think it wa about 100 pound for 1Mb but the prices have probably come down a bit now as this was years ago. Either way, it will probably cost more than its worth to recover
Really hope you can sort this out mate, good luck and let us know how you get on.
Regs
Jacko.
Edit: P.S. Next time make sure you make back ups, your laptop must have either a cd or dvd writer drive surely? |
cheers Jacko shall give it all a go, I dont know whats happened quite franckly been lookin through files and programs have gone to think something has gone potto on the laptop, its a year old now, like antique innit....
I know if you save to the hard drive and use the recent documents option there all listed there, but you cant open them.....
I did used to do back ups but havent done it for ages by mistake so I do have a couple of the pics but nothing of the autumn rebuild.... 
As for the rest of the comments cheers... ...thanks a lot... .....
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| mk1cowboy wrote: | As for the rest of the comments cheers... ...thanks a lot... .....
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Eduardo, you numb fuck. Stick to sheep 
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| Tricky wrote: | | mk1cowboy wrote: | As for the rest of the comments cheers... ...thanks a lot... .....
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Eduardo, you numb fuck. Stick to sheep |
Nah Trev he only sticks to sheep when he got his velcro pants on.
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