Re: Apologies if this is not the appropriate 'group
- From: "Peter Jam" <pjam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:35:35 -0700
Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> Peter Jam wrote:
>
> > Jeff:
> > As I said I lost my Wedding Photos. I had backed everything up to a
> > CDR. Deleted two W2k partions and the formatted for NTFS and
> > installed XP. I woke up in the middle of the night thinking:
> > there should have been more than one CD for My documents. It has
> > My Pictures under it with 3 years of digital photos! sure enough
> > the My Docs CD only had 2 directories in MY Pictures, there should
> > have been dozens. I downloaded a trial of Active Undelete and
> > found the My Pictures folder. Trial only allows 64KB recover so I
> > purchased the product. Download site is:
> >
> > http://www.active-undelete.com/download.htm
> >
> > It recommends recovering to another disk than the original so i
> > hooked up a 9GB I had laying around. I believe I recovered more
> > than 90%. It took a long time, but worth recovering my wedding
> > photos! Some of the files were slightly corrupted so I used
> > another program i have used on corrupt floppies for years called
> > BadCopy 3.76 found at:
> >
> > http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/?rid=BadCopy&vid=3.76&bid=0716
> >
> > If you don't have corruption then you may not need this. I suspect
> > that since they were just deleted you won't. If you view the
> > recovered folder as thumbnails or try to record to a CDR, that is
> > where you will find out if they are corrupted.
> >
> > I got 6 full CDRs of photos after doing all that to my hard drive.
> >
> > And no, I am not associated with either company, but a grateful
> > customer. As you can imagine, my wife didn't understand how I
> > could do something so ignorant.
> >
> > With Patience and Good Luck you should get them all back,
>
> Congratulations, Peter, on a reasonably effective recovery from a
> very bad situation.
>
> However (!), with the price of hard drives at under $0.50 per
> gigabyte, it makes sense to simply replace the hard drive whenever
> upgrading a machine. The old hard drive can be easily (perhaps
> temporarily) attached as a secondary drive and any files copied
> extremely quickly compared to optical drives.
>
> Some prefer external hard drives for ferrying large directories, but
> for a new installation, retiring the old hard disk, with the potential
> to totally restore the old bootable system, is a big win.
>
> As more and more people have their family memories on hard disks, it
> is only reasonable that multiple usable copies are always kept,
> with at least one reasonably current copy in a different location for
> physical safety.
>
> -michael
>
> Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's!
> Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
>
> "The wastebasket is our most important design
> tool--and it is seriously underused."
Michael:
You hit the nail on the head, I just purchased a 300GB USB External as
we speak. Should be here this week.
--
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