Helllllpppppppp!!!!!!

[Guest]

You could extract your hard drive and take it to a computer expert, and MAYBE they could recover deleted files. The more you use the hard drive, even posting here, the more damage you can cause. Anything saved to the hard drive now will contribute to the overwriting of those files.

 

[Rodney King]

Norton's Utilities or SystemWorks (which contains Norton's Utilities) does not need to be installed on your hard drive to recover your files. Norton's Utilities is not a backup program, it contains Unerase Wizard which is a program that looks for the lost address of your deleted files. When you delete a file, all you are initially doing is erasing the first figure in your file's address. All of your data is still on your hard drive, but you have deleted its address so when you go to look for you file your computer cannot find it because it does not have the address to go to the cluster(s) on your hard drive where your file is stored. Those cluster(s) still intially contain all of your data but they are no longer protected against new data from being written to them. That's what addressing does. It tells your computer that these clusters are presently in use and cannot accept new data. But when you delete/erase a file, the computer just strips away the first figure in the address, thereby releasing the clusters to accept new data.

Once new data has been written to these clusters, then your computer assigns new a new address to the new data and your old data is lost. At least for most practical purposes. Part of you data may still exist in other clusters but the possibility to retrieve your old data is basically lost to programs like Nortons Unerase.

Once you've passed this point, you would need to seek the service of a professional data recovery specialist. They have software and knowledge that can retrieve lost data that you or I would accept as lost.

What this depends on is how much your files are worth and how important they are to you. Norton's Utilities costs around $45-$60 depending on where you buy it. A professional data recovery specialist can charge anywhere from a few hundred dollars to thousands. I know, because I accidently re-partitioned a hard drive last year and a data recovery specialist was able to save all of my data at a cost of $1,300. But re-partitioning a hard drive is a much greater issue than simply erasing a file/folder. Re-partitioning basically means I erase all of my hard drives addressing areas. And there is no way to recover lost partition information. All of my data was still on the drive, however, it took a specialist with special software and knowledge to recover it for me. And they did.

You can still purchase Norton's Utilities and try the Unerase Wizard. However, the simple installation of the program itself could potentially write over the data you wish to recover. this is the hazard with this method. However, it could work.

Depending on how important this is to you and whether you can afford it, my suggestion would be to talk to a data recovery specialist and tell him/her your problem. If you just deleted this very recently and have not been writing to your hard drive, the probability is that this would be a very easy operation for them to recover your data.

Good luck.

 

[Guest]

Thank you Rodney, this is very interesting to know. I knew you could recover things, as long as it wasn't overwritten, but now I know why.

Moon

 

[La Huesera]

Thanks for all the help everyone. I have already started over again on my profoilo... I am such a bone head at times. Oh well... I have learned a very good lesson from this. I am off to sleep. Thanks once again.

 

[Rodney King]

If your portfolio is photographs, then it most likely that they are written to thousands of different clusters on your hard drive. Each cluster of which has its own unique address. It is possible for some of the clusters to be overwritten and yet others to still be intact with your original data. A specialist could conceivably recover some of your data, but not all of it. it just depends on how important your portfolio is to you.

If it is more text and not photographs, then you are talking about significantly less data. Therefore, less clusters in use.

Moonwolf, your right. Before I learned about the way the data is stored I use to give up on lost data. Once I understood how the data is stored, I didn't give up so easily. And I can usually recover the data about 90% of the time. Really just depends on how many times the data has been overwritten.

Law enforcement agencies actually have software that can recover data from erased hard drives, destroyed hard drives, even hard drives that have been erased and thrown in salt water. What law enforcement will do in the worst cased is to disassemble the hard drives and take each platter out and try to recover data that way.

When people use their company's computers for personal use, they will usually erase their files or email and think that they are safe and no one can find what they download or saved to the company computer. But 9 out of 10 times, with the right software installed (such as Nortons Unerase), you could retrieve the erased files at the end of the day. That is how so many people get caught.


On the other side, check out Norton's Wipe Info in Norton's Utilities. This is just the opposite program of Norton's Unerase. It allows you to select a file or folder and wipe out the erase area with a quick erase or a more detailed government level wipe. The quick wipe will write a series of numbers between 0-99 over the old data one time and this is usually enough to permanently delete data.

The second option, the government wipe, allows you to write over the old data with a series of three hex values (meaning your wiping a certain area with three different values). And then you can also select how many times you want to repeat this procedure.

If you want to try to use these programs to see how easy it is to recover lost data, set up a phony or temporary folder on your hard drive and then erase it. Then go to Norton's Unerase Wizard and recover it. Then try the wipe info on the data and see how it works. Its amazing how hard it really is to get rid of a program you thought you had deleted.

Well, its time for my bedtime now also. Hope you can recover youri information, La Huesera.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Helllllpppppppp!!!!!!

 

[Guest]

 

[Cuckolded_BlK_Male]

Ontrack 6.0


It'll recover it.

Oh my God! I can't believe that you actually know something of value, you silly fascist prick!