Hard Drive Help

[SESbb30]

the external drive isnt that big, i only had about half the music on there and alot of stuff from school.

[emath2432]

Damn, that sucks. Dude would be on my **** list too.

[SESbb30]

can anybody explain why he did that? i mean, he moved my documents folder from THE MAIN DRIVE TO THE BACKUP WITHOUT TELLING ME!! i mean, c'mon! this is bullshit. he's a "professional" rotfl, what a joke.

[mcoll]

i am i it, and yes he should have told you, but a lot people now seperate folders like from the os for the reason of if the os goes and you half to redo it, the stuff isnt lost. he should have told you, or created a disks or something else for the reason you just gave. i'd complain. its a little unsueal for a shop themselves to do that, or at least if they thought they might need to, asked if you if you wanted them to do it, or where you wanted them stored to.

as long you dont do anything else to that partition. i mean anything, there ia a possibly the material is still there. its a long and hard issue, but it still could be there, bdepending on how it was formatted and what been written. don't do anythig further and have someome with recovery lodge see if there any chance its still there.

[SESbb30]

whats that?

[stevieaces]

Is everyone getting pissed at me now? lol. I have used that program many many times without any problems, thats why I suggested it too you.

[mcoll]

all im saying dont do anything more, there is a slight possibly the stuff is still there. you need to not do anything and have some who filimar with recovery software and know the right program see if the data still there if that important to you. format makes dats not seeable, but its not until files are written over there actually turely gone. it depends the format and what been done to the area of the disk its on to know if its still there. writing files or anything like it does make them gone. depending on the format matter, they may still be there, just not reaable in the normal matter. it someone who knows data recovery software, or in that area of computer and see waht they say.

[SESbb30]

its not you're fault steve. its that guy that fixed my computer after i had the virus.

[SESbb30]

i accidentally made a new my documents folder on the new one. would that be a problem? and the only guy i know that has that kind of software is the fuckface that fixed my computer. (not you steve) the guy that removed the virus from my computer.

[SeaTrane]

its too late now but....didnt you look in that other partition to see what was there before you did this?

[SESbb30]

well the mydocuments thing is the only problem i had with this, how was i supposed to know that he moved the folder? he didnt tell me ****.

[SeaTrane]

I just sent you an email about a data recovery program

[SESbb30]

yeah, go ahead, i downloaded one and im running it right now, if it doesnt come up with anything ill give you're a shot.

[mcoll]

hopfiully something. just take it slow, and do the very lest you can until you determine if there files there or not. then proceed from there. your on the right track doing what it sounds like your doing now.

[SeaTrane]

send me your email address, i tried through here , i dont know if you got an email from me

[SESbb30]

omg guys, i was able to recover EVERYTHING! hahaha YES! thanks so much everybody that helped me, you dont know how much easier this made my next 2 weeks! i cant ever thank you guys enough! Seatrane, that program worked like a charm for me.

[Homer]

that's great! lesson be learned to look at what you're deleting first, and to make sure you back up everything before you do also. by the way, what did you do to get it back?

[SESbb30]

urm, used a recovery program seatrane sent me, and then saved the files to my hard drive.

[SeaTrane]

Glad it worked.Happy to help.

[mcoll]

glad it worked out. that why we were saying don't do anything but run the program, because odds were the stuff was there, unless you had started writing and saving stuff over it. the problem is people don't know that formatting isant exactly making data disaaper forever. there are some variables involved in if gone or not. formatting and installing an os os will make it gone uselessly, or if you use a gov grade eraser program, it gone. the key is depending on what time eraser program or formatting is used and as soon as you realize a problem don't do anything but run a recovery program as quickly as possible to give you your best chance to it back.