Help with data recovery....

[Asheville Joe]

In addition to what Bob said, If you can network the machine and use 
rsync on it from Linux (or even use the Windoze version of rsync backup 
to another partition, you'll have quick and easy backup.  Also, 
partimage works great to backup anything except ntfs partitions as a 
single image that can be just slapped back into place overwriting (and 
restoring) everything without you're having to figure out what got 
hosed.  For that, I think you would need to make the PC dual boot with 
just enough Linux on it to support partimage.

Joe

Darin Perusich wrote:

> before you go any further DO NOT make any writes to the 
> filesystem/partition that you are trying to recover. it would be best 
> to mount it read-only, mount -o ro,remount /filesystem.
>
> professional data recovery services are expensive and can range from 
> $1000 to $5000+ dollars. i had the drive in a laptop crash like 2 
> years ago and i sent it to one of these companies, the laptop belonged 
> to the president's of my company and he didn't think it was necessary 
> to backup files. we paid like $3500 to pull the data off of it. 
> basicly the more data you want restored the more $$$.
>
> undelete program.
> http://recover.sourceforge.net/
>
> this howto works, i tried it out like 3 years ago to recover some data 
> that an employee removed from a machine.
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html
>
> Jeffrey Blank, P.E. wrote:
>
>> Hi all... I am looking for some help/recommendations...   I kinda 
>> FUBARed my wife's computer over the weekend...  Here's the story:
>>
>> I was working on my machine (gentoo linux) and looking to move some 
>> work files to my wifes computer (Win98) for work (I need to use 
>> AUTOCAD).  I created a link in xffm (xfce4 filemanager) and then 
>> tried to delete it.  It deleted my wifes entire 'E:' drive with all 
>> of the pictures of our daughter from her birth a year and a half 
>> ago.  I don't have any good backups...  Well in my rush to fix the 
>> problem, I grabbed an undelete program from the web and went to 
>> town..  It ended up copying the deleted files to the E: drive, the 
>> one with the deleted files.  I was only able to get back about a 
>> third of the pics.  Running norton unerase gives me nothing now.
>>
>> What I am looking for is any recomendations of someone who might be 
>> able to perform more of a low level recovery and what the costs might 
>> be.  My wife is ready to kill me!!!!  Thanks for any and all help.....
>>
>> Jeff (Longtime lurker, rare poster...)
>>
>>
>>
>

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