voyage to mars
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
  Lots of helpful suggestions to yesterday's plea -- cheers to Jameel, Christina, Jørgen, and Thomas for their excellent tips. I've listed some of them here, if anyone else out there gets into a similar situation (back up your data, kids!):

I haven't personally tried this, but the description on Cnet sounds like it might be what you're looking for. Worth a shot if your HDD seems hosed. LMK.

http://download.com.com/3000-2094-6730657.html

This one worked really well, and I was able to retrieve the documents I needed for this Thursday, which was a relief. I need to upgrade to the full version to recover my Outlook inbox, but at least it's still there, so I'm safe. Phew. A recommended download for anyone who's lost files.

For the hard drive problem... if the drive is ok, you should be able to put it in another computer as a slave hard drive. Then boot up the computer and you should be able to copy data from your hard drive to the main hard drive of the 2nd computer. Then put your hard drive back in the original computer and reinstall the OS. What OS are you running? You can do a repair of Windows XP that works really well...

I'm running Windows 2000 at the office. I did a reinstall of the OS on a separate drive, and attempted to access the damaged HD, but no luck. Apparently, the partition data (?) has been shot to hell, and the filesystem is irrevocably damaged. Ideally, I'd get that repaired, but since I can now access the data (with GetDataBack -- see above) and save the most important files, I'm okay. This happens so often with my SCSI disks, but never, ever with my IDE disks. As for XP, I'd love to upgrade, but I'm not sure I want to risk that just yet -- my streak of bad luck could still be in effect. I'll play it safe and stick with boring, old 2000.

I read about your harddrive crash, i had the same thing a couple of weeks ago, and of course i did not make backups either :( Anyway i used easy recovery to recover allmost all of my files (check http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecovery/ )

I'm going to check this one out now -- if it's as good as GetDataBack, and if it's free, I'm all set.

Thanks again for your suggestions, people! You're worth your weight in gold, all of you!

"You know, for kids!"  12:18  


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