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Subject:
File Recovery
Category: Computers Asked by: jacobbontrager-ga List Price: $6.99 |
Posted:
31 Aug 2005 12:13 PDT
Expires: 30 Sep 2005 12:13 PDT Question ID: 562746 |
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Re: File Recovery
From: exileonmain-ga on 31 Aug 2005 15:24 PDT |
I doubt it, but just out of curiousity, what program did you use? |
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Re: File Recovery
From: exileonmain-ga on 31 Aug 2005 15:24 PDT |
Program, meaning the program you were using to write the files and overwrite them, etc. Notepad, excel, etc. |
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Re: File Recovery
From: bozo99-ga on 31 Aug 2005 16:05 PDT |
Assuming you know something about the content of the file you're looking for you may be able to find (some of) it on disk. English text is one of the easier forms to recognise and recover. A few months ago someone I know reformatted a laptop then reinstalled the OS and afterward realised there had been files on the disk that needed recovery. Using simple text-recognition techniques I was able to read quite a lot of email and text from word-processed files - but not recover any entire word-processed documents. Your first step in this situation should be to copy the entire raw disk to somewhere safe using an independent tool like knoppix. Running programs on the affected computer risks damaging the remains of your file that may be there. |
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Use Easy Recovery Pro
From: aqeelga-ga on 31 Aug 2005 16:25 PDT |
Try to use Easy Recovery Pro as it has a feature to correct corrupted recovered files of MS office suite and also Notepad. |
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Re: File Recovery
From: beamzer-ga on 01 Sep 2005 12:47 PDT |
It depends on the blank file, if it's just an empty file, the data should still be on disk. If you mean with blank file a file the same size as the original containing zero's or spaces, you're pretty well lost. A good and easy way to see if you data is still on your disk is boot from a knoppix cdrom (knoppix is a free bootable linux distro, it doesn't make any alterations to your harddisk when you boot from it. When you have booted knoppix, click on the pinguin (bottom left) and find "Root terminal" (I believe it is under knoppix). Now assuming the data was on your C:\ drive type cat /dev/hda | less (Use /dev/hdb for D:\ and so on ...) You will see the screen fill with words from your harddrive type /someword to search for someword in you original text type "n" to go to the next occurance of "someword" Instead of knoppix you could also burn the "Auditor Security Collection" also a bootable Linux distro and use the program "Autopsy" it's a webbase utility to recover your data |
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Re: File Recovery
From: jamie_futurelab_ltd-ga on 03 Sep 2005 21:33 PDT |
There are also professional companies out there that could help you, I work for a Company we run called Lostfiles we can recover virtually anything, there are also extremely sophisticated programs out there that police forensics etc use one for instance called Encase which would certainly recover your file although I think it's very doubtful you would be able to get your hands on a copy. If you have no luck with the conventional programs you can download feel free to email me at jamie@lostfiles.co.uk and I will see what I can do but whatever you do it's worth mentioning not to write any further data to the media to try and maintain the most data integrity possible. So if you require any further assistance then please drop me an email and i'll get back to you asap. Regards Jamie Bowstead Lostfiles - Futurelab Ltd |
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Re: File Recovery
From: andykaiser-ga on 04 Sep 2005 20:52 PDT |
I've recently written a column about recovering deleted files. Check out the text here: http://www.andybrain.com/archive/deleted_files.htm If file recovery software can't help you, your options are to look for a service, or to use a sector analysis tool like the "Disk Investigator" program I mention. Andy |
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Re: File Recovery
From: samrudhkumar-ga on 04 Sep 2005 21:18 PDT |
if you have win xp, use system restore |
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Re: File Recovery
From: flpcguy-ga on 05 Sep 2005 11:54 PDT |
I don't think System Recovery would restore an exported dbt file unless you made a full backup. If you have an Exchange server your mailbox info may still be available on it as a .pst. You might also check your email archive. If you right-clicked on folders like Sent and Inbox and set the Auto-Archive settings, your old emails will be in the archive file in your Application Settings, Microsoft, Outlook folder. For future reference, turn on timed (set 3 min) temporary files, and automatic backups (different file extension) in Word, frequently export, save as, or archive your email to filenames that include the current date and if a Windows 2003 Server is available, set all your work to be stored on the server on a Share with Vol Shadow Copy enabled. On such a server you can restore all previous versions of your files yourself, even if the same filename is used, simply by right-clicking and choosing the previous version you want. |
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