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March 12, 2008 at 1:24 am #2230800
Help!!!
Lockedby admin · about 16 years ago
ok, hit F10 for system recovery when my computer wouldn’t move from its compaq screen. now, no docs on c drive exist-account on MS gone; like a new computer!
is there nothing i can do?
tried freeware data recovery and had a computer guy over to try recovery. nothing.
recently installed MS Office 2007- would that affect locating the data? most was in 2003 and from five years ago-oh, if i think about it it will get me down.
it’s there right-i just have to get it out…?
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March 12, 2008 at 1:24 am #2555756
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March 12, 2008 at 1:38 am #2555754
System Recovery destroys ALL data on the partition …
by older mycroft · about 16 years ago
In reply to Help!!!
So, in the strictest sense of the word – it’s gone. Back to factory condition.
Desktop/tower systems tend to have large, unpartitioned drives: [i]lots of room for storage[/i], [b]lots of room for complacency.[/b]
Laptops/Notebooks tended to have smaller drives, mostly having 2 partitions: System & Data. When the System Recovery was invoked, only the System partition was completely re-formatted (destroying everything) then freshly installed. However all data on the Data partition remained intact.
Do you have a multi-partition system on this drive?
If not, I’m afraid it’s all gone.
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March 12, 2008 at 1:44 am #2555752
I’m glad you said that me old mycroft
by tintoman · about 16 years ago
In reply to System Recovery destroys ALL data on the partition …
Cus I was amazed the other day when I did a system recovery on a Sony Vaio, The recovery worked fine and everything is hunky dorey, but the recovery partition was completely empty afterwards
Does this mean that the user has to create the recovery section again after this operation?-
March 12, 2008 at 1:52 am #2555747
Well, my trusty old Acer has been ‘recovered’ 3 times now …
by older mycroft · about 16 years ago
In reply to I’m glad you said that me old mycroft
On each occasion the C: drive was returned to factory state, the D: drive remained intact, and the I: drive stayed as it was.
^^[For ‘drive’ read ‘partition’]^^Perhaps, as in my Acer’s case, you can’t ‘see’ the Recovery Partition. Check in Disk Management – it should be visible in there, it’ll be about 2 – 2.5GB.
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March 14, 2008 at 1:53 pm #2575751
thx
by admin · about 16 years ago
In reply to System Recovery destroys ALL data on the partition …
yes i had partitions, tho i was saving this stuff on the c drive-fow waht reason compelled me to do this i do not know.
live and learn 🙂
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March 14, 2008 at 3:02 pm #2575735
If any user tells you they dont know how you feel …
by older mycroft · about 16 years ago
In reply to thx
They are liars.
Or they’re kidding on about being a user! 😉
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March 12, 2008 at 1:40 am #2555753
There’s a lesson to be learnt here
by tintoman · about 16 years ago
In reply to Help!!!
isn’t there
How many times have you ever been advised in some form or another to back up back up back up!!
Anyway in your current position your only hope is to obtain some good recovery software (I use pc tools file recover myself)
But be aware that the more you use the computer now and the more data you write to the hard drive the less chance there is of recovering anything
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March 12, 2008 at 4:58 am #2555715
There are two types of computer users in the world
by jdclyde · about 16 years ago
In reply to There’s a lesson to be learnt here
those that have lost data
those that will lose data
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March 13, 2008 at 4:32 am #2576149
How profound JD,
by computercookie · about 16 years ago
In reply to There are two types of computer users in the world
very pertinent!
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March 13, 2008 at 2:20 pm #2574902
deep
by admin · about 16 years ago
In reply to There are two types of computer users in the world
that was deep. when i comw up from it i will post to my blog at
http://www.psipsychologytutor.comthx
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March 14, 2008 at 11:54 am #2575807
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March 14, 2008 at 1:45 pm #2575754
thx 4 the glass half empty feedback
by admin · about 16 years ago
In reply to There’s a lesson to be learnt here
🙂
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March 12, 2008 at 1:51 am #2555748
The
by rob miners · about 16 years ago
In reply to Help!!!
only way that I can think of is expensive. You do work for ED QLD, I hope as you have important documents stored for safe keeping. They might help foot the bill, have a talk to the Principal.
http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com.au/
Edit: Lost track of States
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March 13, 2008 at 4:40 am #2576144
A very pertinent statement, I’m often annoyed
by computercookie · about 16 years ago
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to find that when I click on reply all that you can see is the question and name, no location, although if it’s fictional you can obviously give them a fictional answer.
How can you direct a person to a specific link if you don’t know there location!!!
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March 13, 2008 at 4:54 am #2576134
Sh!t !! – Are these answers supposed to be truthful ? ;)
by older mycroft · about 16 years ago
In reply to A very pertinent statement, I’m often annoyed
NT
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March 13, 2008 at 2:22 pm #2574901
In my first respose I mistakenly thought
by rob miners · about 16 years ago
In reply to A very pertinent statement, I’m often annoyed
the OP was from the NT. NT has DEET. It wasn’t until I posted that I noticed Cairns. 🙂 I used to work for ED QLD. 🙂
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March 14, 2008 at 7:34 am #2574593
RE [i] I used to work for ED QLD.[/i]
by oh smeg · about 16 years ago
In reply to In my first respose I mistakenly thought
You have my sincerest Condolences for that Painful experience.
ED QLD is almost enough reason to fully justify Suicide.
Back in the days when I did school work ED QLD would constantly change their billing procedures around and only ever tell us after the bill had been submitted. This meant redoing the Bill again and resubmitting it with all the new procedures the second. third, fourth or whatever time. Of course this delayed payment for anything up to 18 months.
Col
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March 14, 2008 at 12:59 pm #2575776
Never again
by rob miners · about 16 years ago
In reply to RE [i] I used to work for ED QLD.[/i]
I couldn’t handle the politics. One man show 300 PC’s and two networks to manage. Non existent budgets. Three quotes for everything and alas it was always the lowest quote that was decided on which meant that I was constanly working with crap. What an experience. 🙂
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March 15, 2008 at 6:12 am #2575562
Doesn’t matter what they buy
by oh smeg · about 16 years ago
In reply to Never again
The Kids would turn it to rubbish very quickly and if you where unfortunate enough to have Adult Education at the school it was worse.
When I was at Uni I worked fixing Sewing Machines and they had a School Contract. That was a major Doubled Edge Sword as if you could keep everything working perfectly or at least well you got a lot of New Sales but if you failed to Maintain the School Sewing Machines you got a Very Bad Reputation very quickly and it really wasn’t deserved. Well at least not for the place I was working at because they had good machines and not a pile of junk that should never have got near a school.
That was back in the early 70’s so no chance of having Computers in School back then. But latter the Education Department dumped the Contract System so that the individual Teachers could buy what they liked. Now I understand that was a real Disaster as there was no way that any company could hope to Honor the Service Contract with a small number of machines scattered in widely distributed areas with nothing in between.
God I’m glad that I missed that.
Latter one company that I worked for had 20 Computers in a School to test what would be required. This was pushed by Sales who really didn’t have a clue and thought that they could make easy money even at Government Prices which are rediciously low. The reality is that the Schools ask for 3 Quotes, Tenders or whatever but the only place capable of supplying the items are the Country Distributes. Their Dealers may get hit with the Service Work maybe but the Distributes sell them cheaper than th Dealers can buy them so the best that a Dealer can do is organize the sale and honor the Service Side of the Contract, but they don’t need to if they don’t want o as they never actually sold the unit or made any money to cover the costs of the required Service.
What I found was the worst was the constant ways that the Bureaucrats found to delay payment. One place that I worked at dumped the School Contract after a Takeover and the Service Dept was reduced to a 1 man show for all of QLD and they where loosing money hand over fist so they just didn’t offer a Tender at the next year when the Contract came up for renewal. They had to work for the next 12 months to support what they had sold and where obliged to fix but after that no more. I heard latter that 2 years after no longer being required to do any work they where still receiving payments for Service Work done while they had the Contract. They then offered the work to their Dealers if they wanted to do it so as the State Works Department or whatever it was called by then took their time to pay the dealers didn’t see any great rush to do the work and submit bills. The end result of all of this was the schools not having any working machines most of the time and the name being considered as Rubbish by the Kids as it never worked.
After I had first hand experience of some of this and was told about the rest the Sales Department wanted to put Computers into Schools. I suggested that Sales could also Service & Repair them as I didn’t want my department to blow it’s budget while Sales was making money and ruining the ability to sell product to anyone else down the track. Dragging the Management of Sales into every Visit to the Test School to see what was happening made them see the error of their ways but not because the Repair Work Costs wouldn’t be coming out of their Budget but because the Units didn’t last a Week without being damaged. Only time I’ve seen Common Sense from a Sales Person who was thinking of their Commissions. 😀
Col
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March 15, 2008 at 4:48 pm #2575411
We
by rob miners · about 16 years ago
In reply to Doesn’t matter what they buy
leased fifty PC’s. They were fitted with Fujitsu Hard Drives. There was a controller problem with the batch. The company that we leased from was well aware of this problem. You would have thought that they could have supplied me with a couple of spare Drives so that I could keep the PC’s running. No I had to RTA the Drives and wait for a replacement. I ended up using two of my own Drives to keep them running. Twenty five Drives were replaced in a six month period.
The really frustrating part about it was the fact that I could’t get the school to purchase a couple of Drives. They hadn’t been Budgeted for. Talk about hypocrisy. -
March 15, 2008 at 4:15 pm #2575427
that sounds frustrating!
by admin · about 16 years ago
In reply to RE [i] I used to work for ED QLD.[/i]
i’m not with ED QLD, i tutor from home online and one-to-one. tho i used to work at the uni, and their lack of ethics was just as insulting.
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March 14, 2008 at 1:50 pm #2575752
location
by admin · about 16 years ago
In reply to A very pertinent statement, I’m often annoyed
why does location matter if you are providing them with a link?
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March 13, 2008 at 2:23 pm #2574900
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March 13, 2008 at 3:26 pm #2574874
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March 12, 2008 at 5:57 pm #2575960
OK On Tack West End Brisbane is your only real chance
by oh smeg · about 16 years ago
In reply to Help!!!
And even that isn’t a good chance but they do very good work so if it can be recovered with some Forensic Application they will recover it. Of course they don’t want the NB just the HDD so you’ll need another one to work with and your Compaq Recovery Disc as you’ll loose the Recovery Partition. They charge $900.00 for a Quote and this gets taken off the Finial Bill.
However as the drive is working it should be reasonably cheap to recover what is possible to within reason. The last dead drive that I had then pull data of cost 46K but that was a rush job that was done in 24 hours for a Tax Audit.
But if you work for QLD ED and really need to recover the data QLD Police Computer Crimes Division can read every bit of Data ever written to a HDD. This requires dismantling the Drive coating the Platters with Green Goo and then reading off the platters in a Special Machine. Not sure how far it can go but I’ve been told that they can recover everything with out problem. As this is used for Computer Crimes it’s Expensive I really wouldn’t even like to begin to guess on the costs involved I’ve just been told that [b]It’s Expensive & if you need to ask you Can’t Afford It.[/b]
Naturally you need a new HDD to replace the one that gets destroyed and not returned. But as this is accepted by the Courts as Evidence it must be fairly good.
Col
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March 13, 2008 at 4:48 am #2576140
Not that far from the Valley,
by computercookie · about 16 years ago
In reply to OK On Tack West End Brisbane is your only real chance
suppose one could always catch a few films or whatever!
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March 13, 2008 at 5:58 am #2575176
What at the Village Twin?
by oh smeg · about 16 years ago
In reply to Not that far from the Valley,
Been a very long time since I worked near that place is it still a Gay Place. 😀
Col
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March 14, 2008 at 3:46 pm #2575713
It would be 32 years since I
by computercookie · about 16 years ago
In reply to What at the Village Twin?
went there.
I’m sure you’d remember that they didn’t have gays in QLD in those days!!
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March 15, 2008 at 6:20 am #2575561
Weill Not Officially at least. :D
by oh smeg · about 16 years ago
In reply to It would be 32 years since I
But when they where mentioned they where called smoothing different and never taken seriously.
However the Village Twin for a few years at least was the Place for the Gay’s to go and as we worked just up the street I got to observe what was actually happening there.
Col
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March 13, 2008 at 2:32 pm #2574895
thank you
by admin · about 16 years ago
In reply to OK On Tack West End Brisbane is your only real chance
hey, thx for the informed feedback.
no, wouldn’t spend 46 thousand but could pay of 2 or three. do you have payment plans?
i wrote a post about my experience at http://psipsychologytutor.com/2008/03/08/back-it-up-colleagues/
,i will share with the others your link, for we are many 🙂regards,
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March 14, 2008 at 7:43 am #2574590
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