I"M CRYIN' A DAMN RIVER!!!!!

[bcp]

Good idea for the future, but...........

Doesn't nortons have to be installed "pre" files gone missing for it to pull files that are gone?

When it happend to my system I installed nortons on a secondary computer then I made the emergency disk and used it on the corrupted system.
I recovered almost all of what I had lost by doing it that way.


it does take time though, you end up with a few thousand files to be searched to get back what you want.

 

[LooseTooth]

Are you running XP? If so I can probably help you. I will check it out for free. If I find your photos, I will charge you a fee based on how much data you want to recover. If you want to do this, DO NOT use the computer. Shut it down, and leave that way...

 

[LexiGirl75]

That may be the best thing to do. They are still there I am sure, you just need to try to fish them out...have you done back ups before? If so, they are on your backup tapes, take them with you. Even if you delet the pics, they will still be on your computer somewhere....take it to a professional so they can find them for you.

See this is why I have two old computers with outdated systems Windows NT and 95 and a hard drive with Windows 95 that I need to have stuff recovered.

Someone told me that things are not ever really gone from your computer, how do you get rid of stuff on an old pc so that you can give it away or trash it without anyone else getting your info?

 

[LooseTooth]

See this is why I have two old computers with outdated systems Windows NT and 95 and a hard drive with Windows 95 that I need to have stuff recovered.

Someone told me that things are not ever really gone from your computer, how do you get rid of stuff on an old pc so that you can give it away or trash it without anyone else getting your info?

Hey I can help you too! I just need to update my software to handle the FAT file system. You can be my first 'old skool' customer! Let me know.

 

[LexiGirl75]

Hey I can help you too! I just need to update my software to handle the FAT file system. You can be my first 'old skool' customer! Let me know.

Thanks for the offer, do you have any forumite references as well as the DriveSpace file?

 

[LooseTooth]

Thanks for the offer, do you have any forumite references as well as the DriveSpace file?

I might have one after I help fttrsbeerwench this week.

As far as DriveSpace and WINn9x recovery in general, I have some stuff to try.

 

[fttrsbeerwench]

Just your willingness to give my POS a lookie has made you my new hero!!!!!

 

[LooseTooth]

Just your willingness to give my POS a lookie has made you my new hero!!!!!

You better be posting from SOMEBODY ELSES computer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shut down the computer and step away arghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[sleuth]

See this is why I have two old computers with outdated systems Windows NT and 95 and a hard drive with Windows 95 that I need to have stuff recovered.

Someone told me that things are not ever really gone from your computer, how do you get rid of stuff on an old pc so that you can give it away or trash it without anyone else getting your info?

Simple... remove the hard drive and destroy it.
I always remove hard drives before I pass a machine on to someone else.

 

[Josimmon]

See this is why I have two old computers with outdated systems Windows NT and 95 and a hard drive with Windows 95 that I need to have stuff recovered.

Someone told me that things are not ever really gone from your computer, how do you get rid of stuff on an old pc so that you can give it away or trash it without anyone else getting your info?

Well I am not completly sure at this moment (I am in computer school) but you can do what we did....take the hard drive out and keep that...get rid of the rest. The hard drive looks like a box with cables coming out of it and it usually sits below the CD Rom or floppy drive. We hold on to the old drives at least until I am sure I know how to completly wipe them clean.

 

[Josimmon]

Simple... remove the hard drive and destroy it.
I always remove hard drives before I pass a machine on to someone else.

Didn't see your post....we just keep them in case we want to play spanned or striped....

 

[mainman]

Well I am not completly sure at this moment (I am in computer school) but you can do what we did....take the hard drive out and keep that...get rid of the rest. The hard drive looks like a box with cables coming out of it and it usually sits below the CD Rom or floppy drive. We hold on to the old drives at least until I am sure I know how to completly wipe them clean.

 

[kingofbeers8]

They are not gone. There is a tool called 'get data back'. It is a recovery tool. I can retrieve data off of a formatted drive. Works very well. You will need to hook an external drive to your machine and save the recovered data to the external drive. It costs about 75.00 and works on fat,fat32 and NTFS file systems. Ask around or search google for a free data recovery tool. There are a few of them. do not download and save to your drive until you run the tool or you will write over the file space and THEN your screwed and can sit down and cry

 

[Tigerlily]

They are not gone. There is a tool called 'get data back'. It is a recovery tool. I can retrieve data off of a formatted drive. Works very well. You will need to hook an external drive to your machine and save the recovered data to the external drive. It costs about 75.00 and works on fat,fat32 and NTFS file systems. Ask around or search google for a free data recovery tool. There are a few of them. do not download and save to your drive until you run the tool or you will write over the file space and THEN your screwed and can sit down and cry

Hey big guy how ya doin

 

[itsbob]

Simple... remove the hard drive and destroy it.
I always remove hard drives before I pass a machine on to someone else.

Unless you are keeping secret documents on your personal computer what's the point?

You do a low-level format, and it actually changes each individual bit on the hard drive.. no more data.. and from there I don't think you can recover anything unless you spend BIG money to POSSIBLY detect the minute changes in the magnetic or electonic field(I really don't think that it is possible) on each bit that has been changed. The ones that have been caught in the past, are the ones that thought de-fraggin was the answer.. They would delete files, then de-frag their computer in hope of writing over the files they deleted, that does NOT work. Many a child porn afficianado's have been caught that way.

Magnets do not work either.. You see it in the movies, a house gets raided, and they swipe a huge, 20lb or so, magnet across their harddrives and their media.. doesn't work.. maybe against an older Floppy disk, but not against a Hard Drive.

Remember it's all ones and zeroes(electrical charge, NO electrical charge).. if you can erase all the ones, and make them all zeroes there is NOTHING there.

 

[sleuth]

Unless you are keeping secret documents on your personal computer what's the point?

You do a low-level format, and it actually changes each individual bit on the hard drive.. no more data.. and from there I don't think you can recover anything unless you spend BIG money to POSSIBLY detect the minute changes in the magnetic or electonic field(I really don't think that it is possible) on each bit that has been changed. The ones that have been caught in the past, are the ones that thought de-fraggin was the answer.. They would delete files, then de-frag their computer in hope of writing over the files they deleted, that does NOT work. Many a child porn afficianado's have been caught that way.

Magnets do not work either.. You see it in the movies, a house gets raided, and they swipe a huge, 20lb or so, magnet across their harddrives and their media.. doesn't work.. maybe against an older Floppy disk, but not against a Hard Drive.

Remember it's all ones and zeroes(electrical charge, NO electrical charge).. if you can erase all the ones, and make them all zeroes there is NOTHING there.

I just do it to protect from identity theft.
Maybe overkill. :shrug: But it's easy.

 

[LooseTooth]

I think FBW will have a HAPPY ending to the story to tell when she is able to log back on!

Who's the man?

Who's the man??

 

[fttrsbeerwench]

I think FBW will have a HAPPY ending to the story to tell when she is able to log back on!

Who's the man?

Who's the man??

YOU DA MAN!!!!

YOU DA MAN!!!!

 

[LexiGirl75]

Thank you all for your info. I have one hard drive out of an old pc of mine but I worry it will be ruined being out and unprotected (its in plastic wrap) and it has a lot of my poetry on it as well as old IM's from friends and all of my emails and writings.

The other two pc's I want to give away to someone who may not be able to buy a new one at the time. One use to be my children's pc and when I found the monitor on the floor cracked open I said you won't get a nothing in this room til you get much older. There was no internet just loaded software games.