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GTPatrick

Oct 30 2008, 02:23 PM

Gentleman , long story short here . 2 weeks ago my home computer commited harikiri and in the process of restoring it I lost all of my files, i.e. pictures, documents, internet favorites, etc . .

My question being , there were several links in postings here concerning , 1-welding , 2- sheetmetal, 3- electrical and 4- transmission to other werbsites for information on those subjects . I either saved or bookmarked them but now they are all lost .

If anyone out there can remember if they posted a link to another website concerning these 4 subjects could you please repost them here so I could check them out again ? I know that this may be a big request here but I am at a lost of recreating my list of websites in " Saved As . . . ." or "Bookmarked as " files . My PC is now working but as far as teeners go my files are now extincet.

If anyone could hep me I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

GTP

RJMII

Oct 30 2008, 02:41 PM

if you have two harddrives you can still use software to extract information off of a fromatted harddrive... I bet a bunch of it is still there. Data extraction is quite easy, and I bet there are a few of us on the board that wouldn't hesitate to help you out with getting YOUR data back for you.

r_towle

Oct 30 2008, 03:02 PM

QUOTE(GTPatrick @ Oct 30 2008, 04:23 PM)

Gentleman , long story short here . 2 weeks ago my home computer commited harikiri and in the process of restoring it I lost all of my files, i.e. pictures, documents, internet favorites, etc . .

My question being , there were several links in postings here concerning , 1-welding , 2- sheetmetal, 3- electrical and 4- transmission to other werbsites for information on those subjects . I either saved or bookmarked them but now they are all lost .

If anyone out there can remember if they posted a link to another website concerning these 4 subjects could you please repost them here so I could check them out again ? I know that this may be a big request here but I am at a lost of recreating my list of websites in " Saved As . . . ." or "Bookmarked as " files . My PC is now working but as far as teeners go my files are now extincet.

If anyone could hep me I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

GTP

I can only offer the suggestion that you use search and play around with your search phrases to get the results you seek.

rich

abbott295

Oct 30 2008, 07:45 PM

It's a couple of months now since a computer of mine, with a couple of other users, did something like that maybe(?) Not knowing much about the problem or the proper solution, I also lost access to all the data that had been on it I got it going again finally with the F10 Restore method, but I miss some of those photos. I never learned to use the computer for anything more important. I hope that anything that would help GTPatrick would help me. I will keep an eye on this space.

RJMII

Oct 30 2008, 09:02 PM

the process for data recovery involves another BIG harddrive with data recovery software. This harddrive needs to be set up as the primary harddrive. it's good to just have another computer handy to toss the harddrive with the lost data into (I think I have 5 computers in my home network now, so not a problem for me) this might be a problem for non-IT types.
Most of the work I do is for doctors and medical professionals, and I have become quite good at ignoring content and just looking at 1's and 0's when doing data recovery. (Unfortunately I'm not sure that I can use incredibly busy surgeons as a reference because they have lives to save.)
If either of you want to me to see what I can find for you on your hard drives, PM me. The process is getting a little more difficult to walk non-IT people through because of the new technologies. (RAID setups on the SATA drives esp)

GTPatrick

Oct 31 2008, 08:18 AM

Doing data retrieval seems to be a complicated project .

Does snyone out there have any links to welding , sheetmetal , transmission or electrical websites that they could share with us data challenged individuals ???

Thanks .

GTP

Richard Casto

Oct 31 2008, 08:33 AM

r_towle

Oct 31 2008, 10:29 AM

QUOTE(RJMII @ Oct 30 2008, 11:02 PM)

the process for data recovery involves another BIG harddrive with data recovery software. This harddrive needs to be set up as the primary harddrive. it's good to just have another computer handy to toss the harddrive with the lost data into (I think I have 5 computers in my home network now, so not a problem for me) this might be a problem for non-IT types.
Most of the work I do is for doctors and medical professionals, and I have become quite good at ignoring content and just looking at 1's and 0's when doing data recovery. (Unfortunately I'm not sure that I can use incredibly busy surgeons as a reference because they have lives to save.)
If either of you want to me to see what I can find for you on your hard drives, PM me. The process is getting a little more difficult to walk non-IT people through because of the new technologies. (RAID setups on the SATA drives esp)

I need help.
Sons laptop died. I have a few extra computers for doing the data retrieval.
I need a cable...desktop to laptop HD cable....
Ever seen something like that??

Rich

RJMII

Oct 31 2008, 11:06 AM

QUOTE(r_towle @ Oct 31 2008, 09:29 AM)

I need help.
Sons laptop died. I have a few extra computers for doing the data retrieval.
I need a cable...desktop to laptop HD cable....
Ever seen something like that??

Rich

yup, I sure have. =o)

I'm done hijacking this thread. PM sent

GTPatrick

Oct 31 2008, 11:10 AM

Richard C. ,

. . . . Thanks for the leads/links .

I'll check them out when I get home if the little gobblins , trolls and witches

don't keep me busy handing ouat candy . I thought of going out dressed up as a Divorce Attorney but scared the hell out of myself just thinking about it , so I shelved that idea for later .

GTP

bd1308

Nov 1 2008, 10:41 AM

If you all need help, I do work on the side now (semi-professionally, not like before)

PM me or email me