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Article #320Re: Wife is going to kill me
From: Chris McEwen
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 00:00
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Bob Shipley wrote: > > Chris McEwen wrote: > > > > Are you two gentlemen certain the fellow intended to loose all his > > wife's data on that partition? From reading his article, I'd say he > > formatted the drive in a desparate attempt to regain control. Any writes > > to that partition will close the door on recovering the old data. > > He's already formatted the drive. Unless he's willing to spend several > hundered dollars on data recovery, his only option is a fresh install. Bob, I admit it has been a while since I've had to do disaster recovery, but I recall Norton's had an unformat function just for situations like this. It kept a copy of the original FAT which could be restored but only for clusters where there had been nothing written since. This was why I suggested he not turn the machine on and get it to a skilled technician. I have recovered systems in this pickle before. By this time, assuming he has been following the advise he has been getting, I wouldn't put much hope in recovery now. BTW: where is this guy? I was watching the 6 o'clock news and didn't hear about any bizzare deaths. Is he still out there? --Chris McEwen reply to: Socrates Press socrates@sprintmail.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f8e37,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gidf8e37,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: 10a2ed,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid10a2ed,public X-Google-Thread: 112149,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid112149,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,49d919137faf3eec X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public From: Chris McEwen <lmcewen@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Wife is going to kill me Date: 1997/11/04 Message-ID: <345F4193.50F3@hotmail.com> X-Deja-AN: 286986629 References: <3479776b.16050497@read.news.globalnet.co.uk> <344FEBAF.6889@ix.netcom.com> <34519927.58B7@indiana.edu> <630uk7$d2e$1@siesta.packet.net> <631rae$588@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <6345ni$8f1$1@dove.qut.edu.au> <34569f01.3945771@news.v-wave.com> <63757v$dt6@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <63gvrp$h0t$1@news1.epix.net> <345CA2FE.F88F3734@lv.rmci.net> <63l0uc$7q@server4.softdisk.com> <345E1668.6557@erols.com> <345E2747.4169@hotmail.com> <345EDD75.4829@erols.com> Organization: Socrates Press Reply-To: lmcewen@hotmail.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,biz.comp.hardware,comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc