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Jim Kobylinski

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For anyone who has ever made some kind of stupid booboo (like me) when it comes to not saving/backing up your data and/or have had some kind of hard drive failure....ALL IS NOT LOST!

I highly recommend the below program

GetDataBack Data Recovery - Free software downloads and reviews - CNET Download.com

Quick overview:

I decided to reformat my hard drive because i was having issues and saved all my documents i wanted to keep in a folder to be moved off. Like a dummy i didn't move them off before i started reformating using the recovery disks. I stopped the recovery after before it was complete and did some googling. Found the above software and i was able to use a demo version of the above software FREE which allowed me to see if my data was still on the hard drive even though i was going through the motions of reformatting it.

Very simple process and i found all my necessary documents including a bunch of things i had deleted LOL. However once you want to make copies of the program you do have to pay for a license key at $60 or $80 bucks. Small price to pay for the things that i lost that were PRICELESS (videos, photos, etc).

Hopefully all of you are smarting than me and backup your stuff but in case you aren't there are options out there for you.

Hope this helps someone because i felt like a complete douche when it did it but am much happier now :D
 
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Slicey McDuff

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+1

As an IT Professional, we use GDB on a regular basis, we have the paid professional version and it's yet to let us down.

I have a saying that goes like this:

There are 2 types of people.
Those who have lost data.
And those who are going to.........

BACKUP, BACKUP,BACKUP, then backup the backup of the backup.
If data does not exist in AT LEAST 2 places, then data DOES NOT EXIST!!!!
 
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puttmad

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Jim,
If you really want to cover yourself take a look at HyperOs Systems Click on the "Hyperos 2004" link half way down the middle column...

This is a partitioning and one-click system, which allows you to create up to 10 separate computers on your hard drive...
Each has its own operating system and can view files in the other computers..
There is also a storage drive which is separate from all the computers, so you can't lose it if one of your computers plays up or gets a virus etc......
So if one computer gets a problem, you can simply delete it and restore a backup (takes about 4 minutes) and you are up and running again....

Best bit of kit I have seen in the last 10 years...have used it for 5 years now, no probs...
 
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puttmad

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Jim,
The data recovery software you mentioned....is it only for hard drives, or can it be used on external drives?....
 
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Slicey McDuff

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Puttmad, whilst your app looks like a nice tool, in fact I'll investigate it for certain things I do, it's really NOT a backup alternative.

If your data is all stored on a seperate drive that's fine, but if THAT DRIVE isn't backed up then your data is still vulnerable.
Also if the drive with your 10 O/S's isn't backed up and IT fails then you have lost those 10 O/S's.

Don't get me started on this stuff, just had to do a Disaster Recovery Plan for a company that makes components for aircraft, talk about cover your bases!!!!!!

Another point to keep in mind:
Backing up is all well and good, but don't leave the backup sitting on the desk above the computer.
Imagine coming home to find the computer a smouldering pile of rubble with a smouldering backup drive/tape/disk in the ashes next to it.
Take a copy to work or a relatives house, you never know when disaster will strike except to say it will happen at the worst time possible.

And Get Data Back will do external drives as well. :D
 
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puttmad

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Point taken Slicey,
I was aware of that, but just thought you may like to hear of an alternative that can prevent those many occasions where you would have lost "the whole ish"....:)

However, if my external hard drive hadn't gone t*ts up, I would have backed up the whole thing on that...it takes a lot of disk space!!!!...
 
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Slicey McDuff

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All good mate, I guess I'm just a bit more anal than most when it comes to backups and the integrity thereof.

BTW, HyperOS looks very cool indeed, I'm going to buy it for some testing scenarios we have, and I can see uses for it in our training business, nice find.

Off to hit a ball around soon, wish me luck :)
 
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