Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] A fine example of screwing up

[Chris Wolfe <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I tried several and the winner is Zero Assumption Recovery (for Windows) at
http://www.z-a-recovery.com.  Got the quicken files and also some Favorite
URL files that I assumed were long gone.  Even used it later on a different
system to pull jpgs off a smartmedia card from a camera that had not
formatted the card right before saving pictures to it. 

Very cool stuff, and I highly recommend it for those last ditch attempts at
data recovery.
--Chris

--- Camden Daily <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> There's a program called Lost & Found by the makers of Partition 
> Magic.  You need a Windows machine to create the boot disk from the 
> executable, but then you boot off the disk and it will attempt to recover 
> files.  I believe it will work okay with NTFS, since it kind of ignores the
> 
> FAT anyways.  As long as everything is defragged, it will just go through 
> the disk sequentially and attempt to reconstruct the files.  You'll need a 
> second hard drive on the machine to copy the new files too.
> 
> It's neither free nor open source, but I've got an older copy if you need 
> it.  It saved my entire mp3 collection before, so it's certainly capable of
> 
> working wonders...
> 
> -Camden
> 
> At 09:59 PM 12/24/2002 -0800, Chris Wolfe wrote:
> >Does anyone know of a free or open source file restore application, for
> >either Windows or Linux, that can go beyond a simple "undelete"?
> >
> >I did an upgrade on the in-laws PC from Win98 to Win2000 a few days ago. 
> I
> >basically took the Win98 partition which was using FAT32 and waxed it,
> >recreating the partition during the Win2000 install and formatted it with
> >NTFS.  It had been fully defragged in Win98 previous to the new install
> >(which is very beneficial it turned out).
> >
> >My boo-boo was not backing up their C:\QUICKENW directory prior to doing
> the
> >win2k install.  I've tried a couple shareware windows file restore
> programs
> >and one does show that the Quicken DB files are still there and
> recoverable,
> >but of course I'd have to pay upwards $100 for the full version to
> actually
> >get them.  Of course, I'd rather spend that trying to make up for my
> mistake
> >to the family in some other fashion.
> >
> >Thanks for any suggestions!  Hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!
> >--Chris
> >
> >
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