Guest Hans Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 I had to restore my computer ot the original factory settings. I lost all my files. Is thera progrma that is good at finding lost files such a ms word, powerpoint, excel, and picture/video files? -- Hans
Guest Alias Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 Re: system restore Hans wrote: > I had to restore my computer ot the original factory settings. I lost all my > files. Is thera progrma that is good at finding lost files such a ms word, > powerpoint, excel, and picture/video files? Yes, but it's really expensive, like over a grand type expensive. Now you know that back up is a computer user's best friend. -- Alias To email me, remove shoes
Guest HEMI-Powered Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 Re: system restore =?Utf-8?B?SGFucw==?= added these comments in the current discussion du jour ... > I had to restore my computer ot the original factory settings. > I lost all my files. Is thera progrma that is good at finding > lost files such a ms word, powerpoint, excel, and > picture/video files? If the files were simply deleted/reformatted non-destructively, then, yes, you can find programs that can recover lost files. I don't know any, but Google is your best friend. If you totally fail, there are computer forensic specialists in the $100- 200/hour range that can recover anything that is even remotely recoverable, but what they can NOT do is name them as you once had. Now, what backup regimen do you practice, if any? If none, why not? The time most people decide to start backing up their HD is right AFTER a crash or a reinstall. Don't you have opticals or an external HD? These things are dirt cheap on a per-GB basis these days and very, very effective. Also, I would strongly recommend that you buy a good imaging utility like Acronis True Image that can take a full bit-by-bit binary image of an entire partition or just part of one. That is FAR better than restoring to your OEM's as-sold condition, plus True Image can do individual file and folder restores in the advent you just accidently deleted some files or they became corrupt. Next, don't forget malware protection. It takes a whole LOT more than a freebie AV program and MS's malicious software removal tool to protect yourself today, and should be used very rigorously, especially just prior to doing a full partition image. One last one: Create an extended partition, D:\ or whatever, to hold just the data YOU create. That way, if malware infests you or you're forced to totally rebuild your system, you don't lose everything, likely you won't lose anything. And, if I were a betting man, I'd bet you had all your stuff stored in hundreds of folders under My Documents. Not the best way to do data management if you have more than a trivial amount of data, YOU want to be able to find it again, and, you want to facilitate easy and effective backups. -- HP, aka Jerry
Guest HEMI-Powered Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 Re: system restore Alias added these comments in the current discussion du jour ... > Hans wrote: >> I had to restore my computer ot the original factory >> settings. I lost all my files. Is thera progrma that is good >> at finding lost files such a ms word, powerpoint, excel, and >> picture/video files? > > Yes, but it's really expensive, like over a grand type > expensive. Now you know that back up is a computer user's best > friend. I know a couple of Cyber friends that recovered several hundred gigs for only about $200, but they were left with literally 100,000 files of all types, none named, and they do not differentiate between the tens of thousands of itty bitty bitmaps and other things Windows scatters around, thus he lost his entire car picture collection, got it back, and spent weeks and weeks laboriously renaming some 10,000+ pictures. As you say so correctly, and as a play on words to the real estate biz, backup, backup, backup are the 3 most important things for ALL PC owners to get a firm grip on. -- HP, aka Jerry
Guest Mike Lowery Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 Re: system restore "HEMI-Powered" <none@none.sn> wrote in message news:Xns999575FDE27DEReplyScoreID@216.168.3.30... > =?Utf-8?B?SGFucw==?= added these comments in the current > discussion du jour ... > >> I had to restore my computer ot the original factory settings. >> I lost all my files. Is thera progrma that is good at finding >> lost files such a ms word, powerpoint, excel, and >> picture/video files? > > If the files were simply deleted/reformatted non-destructively, > then, yes, you can find programs that can recover lost files. I > don't know any, but Google is your best friend. Run this demo and see if it finds anything: http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm
Guest HEMI-Powered Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 Re: system restore Mike Lowery added these comments in the current discussion du jour ... >>> I had to restore my computer ot the original factory >>> settings. I lost all my files. Is thera progrma that is >>> good at finding lost files such a ms word, powerpoint, >>> excel, and picture/video files? >> >> If the files were simply deleted/reformatted >> non-destructively, then, yes, you can find programs that can >> recover lost files. I don't know any, but Google is your best >> friend. > > Run this demo and see if it finds anything: > http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm > I don't have the problem, the OP does, but now I have a question of my own: I know utilities exist, I'm just not at all informed because I have taken precautions for decades to protect my personal data and have fortunately never had a major loss. What is this exactly? The reason I ask is that while I trust you Mike, I generally do not just blindly click on a link to someplace I'm not familiar with. Best way I can explain that is sometimes a friend will send me an E-card for my birthday or something which turns out to have dozens of pop-ups some of which are highly dangerous malware on a phishing expedition, and my sending friend didn't realize it. Thanks. -- HP, aka Jerry
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