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Advice on data recovery???

thetrailboss

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I used Ms. Trailboss' computer this weekend to write an article for AZ. When I went to save the item to a 3.5 inch floppy, the computer went bizark...last night Ms. Trailboss discovered that somehow the data on that disk was erased or written over inadvertently....I feel :( :cry: and want to help her....she is :angry: right now with me. Technical advice here from any computer techies?
 

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thetrailboss said:
I used Ms. Trailboss' computer this weekend to write an article for AZ. When I went to save the item to a 3.5 inch floppy, the computer went bizark...last night Ms. Trailboss discovered that somehow the data on that disk was erased or written over inadvertently....I feel :( :cry: and want to help her....she is :angry: right now with me. Technical advice here from any computer techies?

Which disk? The floppy of her hard drive?

Best to save DOCs to a hard drive then copy to a floppy...
 

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Floppy disk.

These items were "important," and yet she didn't save them in two different places :-?
 

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Yeah, just get a data recovery software that will probably cost you around $20, but it's worth the money to just have around - I used something like that when the pictures on my compactflash card got corrupted and couldn't get recognized. The software was excellent in retrieving all the pics and ones from months ago that I had erased.
 

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thetrailboss said:
Floppy disk.

These items were "important," and yet she didn't save them in two different places :-?
I feel your pain...the last time my system got totally messed up, I forgot to back up my files to a CD and I had to pay a computer support person $200 to get the files back before reinstalling the OS. :(
 

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Good advice here...thanks guys! Your advice, of course, is not to do anything with the disk so that data recovery can be done, right?
 

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thetrailboss said:
Good advice here...thanks guys! Your advice, of course, is not to do anything with the disk so that data recovery can be done, right?

yes...
 

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i haven't useed a 3.5 disc on my home computer in over three years. when i rebuilt my last system, i didn't connect the floppy drive correctly and it has never worked. due to CD's and data transfer via network, i have never needed a floppy disc.
 

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riverc0il said:
i haven't useed a 3.5 disc on my home computer in over three years. when i rebuilt my last system, i didn't connect the floppy drive correctly and it has never worked. due to CD's and data transfer via network, i have never needed a floppy disc.

I suddenly became the computer repair guy in my town... I dont know how it happened... But I'm fixing PCs for barter... cool...

Anyrate - it forced me to get a USB floppy for my laptop... So I could make boot disks and copy driver etc... Just enough to get a CD drive up so I can use my LINUX boot cd... :)
 

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I used a program called Active file Recovery to recover erased data from a compact flash card.

Its real purpose is supposed to be to pull in from disks, both floppy and hard.

They are at WWW.file-recovery.net.

If the demo won't do it for you, but says the full version will, let me know. :wink:
 

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riverc0il said:
i haven't useed a 3.5 disc on my home computer in over three years. when i rebuilt my last system, i didn't connect the floppy drive correctly and it has never worked. due to CD's and data transfer via network, i have never needed a floppy disc.
I recently discovered the magic of a "thumb drive". :D :idea: About 6 months ago I bought a 128mb one at Staples for $30, and it plugs into any USB port. If the machine is running Windows XP, it is recognized automatically without the need for pre-installing a driver. You can get 1gb ones for under $100. They work just like a portable hard disk, or an ultra-huge floppy. Woth the investment, IMHO.

If there are drawbacks out there, I haven't encountered any.
Smitty
 

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smitty77 said:
If there are drawbacks out there, I haven't encountered any.
Smitty

They are cool!

The drawback is when your trying to restore or recover a computer... You need a floppy for a boot disk...
 
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