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Originally Posted by cyrnel
If it helps at all take some consolation that most home users put less importance in their data disappearing than those of us who spend mucho time with computers. Of course, losing photos, financial data, or a serious gamer's saves might mean you're on dish-duty for quite some time.  |
Thank god they didn't have any financial data on it.... at least i don't think they did. It's mainly my little bro that I'm worried about - he's got all his music, pics, videos and crap like that on it :-/
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I'd try GetDataBack or one of the other recovery utils. You may have written over important pieces but these filesystem forensic utils are pretty good about getting files that haven't been written over, even if their directory entries are toast. First thing though, pull the drive. Do the recovery on a box you know isn't going to access the drive. No chkdsk, no indexing, no nothing.
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I'll try GetDataBack then. However, what do you mean do the recovery on a box that isn't going to access the drive? I've already pulled it and I'm installing XP on the RAID array now. I'm gonna have to plug it back in and copy some of the install files over so I don't have to DL everything from the web. I have to leave in three and a half hours and I won't be back for a week!
I guess it's a fair punishment. I talked to my mom over the phone about it, and she didn't care. Then she reminded me why I'm doing this in the first place - she flicked the breaker on a surge protector that destroyed their eMachine in the first place
It was either this or build a new eMachine. Without me, they would have been f'd anyway, so it doesn't matter.