Competition: ‘Get out of jail’ card from CBL Data Recovery
Remember that Ten Commandments of Data Loss Prevention we ran a few days ago? Well the team at CBL has decided to extend the hand of love to one lucky Giz reader, in the form of a special ‘Get out of Jail Free’ card. Just like Monopoly, only this time the escape is from one serious disk meltdown. CBL puts the value of this card at $3500 – so if your system gets fried, burned, flooded, stabbed, shot, whatever, they will go the distance to try and restore as much of your data as can possibly be restored.
Like the sound of that? All you have to do is comment below and tell us your data loss horror stories. Entries close Friday August 17, so you’ve got more than a week to visit the therapist and unleash those repressed memories of woeful data disasters. Terms and Conditions
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Ah geez where to start?
I’ll go with the latest, installing Ubuntu in dual boot with xp, and it killed everything on the disk, the linux partition, and the windows one, *most* of my stuff lives on another disk, cool, but all settings saves and all my work stuff was saved in my profile, on c:/ YAY!
So after eventually getting everything working again, i realised that i’d lost about 2 and a half months work on the project.
awesome
Its that exact reason i keep all my images, video and music on another disk
( i have since learnt to use the disc AND a dvdrw for storing the work stuff..
I know the horrors of data recovery all too well. My most recent nightmare was with my own laptop, who for reasons unknown being a long time computer technician I forgot to backup on a regular basis.
Anyway, I was using my laptop the weekend before last at a friends place and was just in the process of hibernating it before going home. I pressed a little too hard on the corner of the Dell laptop (which has not caught fire yet) while picking it up, and suddenly the hibernate process stops…
Cue the infamous click of death. The hard drive has stopped working and the machine refuses to boot. Six months worth of data, email, and other stuff now totally lost to the gods.
Another nightmare was at a previous workplace, a university where after all things have been tried by one of my colleagues to fix a client’s Apple Mac laptop had been attempted they decided to re-image the unit. Except he failed to do one thing before starting the re-imaging process, back up the clients data (despite this being standard procedure). The client just happened to be a senior professor who saved all their data locally and not on the network drives as was normally the case.
Queue an expensive data recovery on the east coast, with rush fees due to the fact it had his only copy of a major overseas conference he was presenting at the next week.
Augh, worse time was when I attempted to use Partition Magic to move, then resize a partition. Being the lazy and foolish man I am, I decided to do this without a backup. Bad mistake.
The process stalled about 3/4 of the way through and resulted in total data loss, including all documents, email and calendar information :(
After a bit of searching I found some old backups, about 6 months old. I like keeping an archive of everything, but there is a six month period of my computing life that I’ll never get back. *sigh*
My horror story was from a few years back when my computer burned up..literally! It was in the middle of bush fire season in Sydney. As i sat working on my PC at home, I noticed a strong sulfur type smell wafting into my study. It was a 40 degree day, the bushfires were raging in the mountains and i was half dead from heat stroke, so i decided to think nothing of it.
You can guess the rest. My computer suddenly shut down. Most of my hardware was fried. I discovered later that my fan had stopped working sometime that day. Why? I’m not sure. Probably melted from the heat…
I lost everything…
Regards
*Anonymous Bushfire Victim*
Back about 15 years ago I spent my student loan, about 2 grand on a P1. It was great, I got a modem, discovered BBS’s and eventually the internet. As you can imagine having access to these technologies lead to the gradual filling up of the my 2 1 gig drives with games, screamtracker modules (s3m and mod), school assignments and low quality porn. (flics, flacs and bmps) I shared the love by starting my own BBS (renegade) and passing on the files. I also held an interest in coding and had a massive collection of Viri, source code and tools.
ANywho, it came to the stage where it came apparent that Kiwi Land was not going to lend itself easily to a career. So I left my PC in the capable hands of my little Sister and little brother and went to live in the UK for a few years. I set up my PC so it was fool proof. The Porn was well hidden, the viri folder was excluded from scans, and everything was categorised and easy to find.
About a month in of the eventual 5 year OE I got a call from my mother.
‘mum’ Im not very happy about those pictures on your PC…. Your brother has been looking at them. (Tom was 12) I have asked your sister to delete the system.
‘Feral’ What?
‘Mum’ Its infested with dirty pictures and viruses. You sister says we need to start again. Infact she has formatted and re-installed windows.
‘Feral’ Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, WHAT?, Son of a biatch!
My sister in her infinite wisdom and total n00bism, (servant of mother) went ahead and blew everything away, including the data drive.
It transpires, that whilst Tom was looking at dirty pictures, he got busted by my sister, who accidentally decided to execute one of the viruses. So much for my skills at hiding stuff away.
I only really miss the mods and s3ms! ;)
Mine is from work. The guys transferred a critical SQL system to a new server and it worked fine for a while, then its SCSI disk failed. Ofcourse the network team had not installed any backup software as they expected the SQL team to do their SQL backup and the SQL team did not backup the database as they expected the network team to take a full system backup. Now we have not database to go back to and our main system is down. A few heads have already rolled and I expect a few more to go. We have endded up going to our old box but lost around 2 months of data.
My computer had been running slower than it normally does, which was odd, as I still had plenty of room left on my hard drive. I was puzzling over this when all of a sudden my computer restarted by itself. I thought this was odd, but I’m like “Oh well, it’s Windows, it happens every now and then.” The only problem was that now when I started up my computer, it kept getting to the Windows loading screen, and starting up again.
This worried me, so I hunted down my original hard drive that came with my PC, re-installed Windows, and then hooked up the non-booting one to see if I could recover anything. The odd thing was that when it detected the hard drive, it said that there was only about 50 megabytes of space in total on the hard drive. Which was originally 120 gig. So while I was hunting around on the internet to try and see what might fix this, I noticed the window that had the hard drive displayed disappear. I went into My Computer to try and open it back up, but the hard drive was no longer detecting, so I had no chance of recovering any of my files.
You think that story isn’t to bad? Well it happened about a week before I had three major assignments due for university that I hadn’t properly backed up. I had partial copies of the assignments on my laptop, but I’d lost the major items. Which means not only did I have the stress of losing all my music, programs and documents, but I also had the stress of having to stay up overnight on more than one occasion to try and get my assignments finished again, as my uni doesn’t accept computer failure as a reasonable excuse for an extension.
Sigh… So much lost time :(
It started innocently enough, i had just got back from overseas, and my computer had built up quite the dust pile, so, as i had done many a time before, i opened the case and started removing everything so that i could get the air compressor, done a hundred times, never a problem, untill this time….
Some time during the process of taking it apart and reinstalling all my drives, i managed to puch a pin on my 2nd hard drive, which contained all my fun files, games, music, videos, install files and serial codes… GONE!!!
Frantically i ran around trying it on other computers, but to no avail… luckilly my whole music collection was backed up to my 80gb iPod, and i had an fairly up to date printout of my serials… but still a lot of good stuff lost.
still have the drive stashed away in my draw ready for the time i can figure out a way to get it back…
This is not my story, but happened to my little sister. Earlier this year she travelled with her boyfriend to the USA. Before she left she read about a cool feature of the iPod that allowed her to plug her Canon IXUS into a “camera module” which allowed her to dump photos directly on to an iPod. Fantastic!
The first problem occured when the first iPod she ordered was broken. After fighting with Apple for a week, it got replaced.
She finally had the thing working, tested the transfer of photos to the iPod everything seemed great.
Of they went on the holiday they had saved a year for. They visited the World Series of Poker and they got photos with all their favourite poker pros, including Doyle ‘Texas Dolly’ Brunson. She visited ‘The Rock’ in San Fran and even had some awesome shots at Disneyland.
Across the entire country, and 2000 photos later she returned home.
She plugged in the iPod to her PC and in a single synchronous moment, all 2000 photos were gone.
According to Apple, if your “My Pictures” folder on your PC is empty, then surely your iPod should be too?
After some further reading, it seems that the “camera attachment” for the iPod wasn’t really made for that purpose. Apparently its good to upload photos to your iPod, but not good to use as a backup.
At the time, I remember reading a few websites and no one actually knew how to get the photos OFF the iPod and on to a PC. And when they did, they were not full size, only thumbnails anyway.
2,000 photos of the best (only) holiday of your life. Gone in an iSecond.
We actually wondered at the time if a data recovery place could recover such data. I assumed that the cost of recovery (to a uni student) might outweigh the price of such precious photographic memories.
Perhaps the worst data horror of all! Id just started working with this compand 2 weeks beforehand. The freakin luddite boss decided to let his kids play around at work. All the workstations were in use by people doing this mysterious thing “work”. So the dumbass takes his kid to the server out back and leaves him alone in there for a few hours. The kid thought he was “L337″, and decided to make a few “tweaks” to the system. Specifically he decided it would run a lot better with his mates cracked copy of vista ultimate.
Too bad it wouldn’t let him do the upgrade option, so he did the whole complete restart installation. I got into work about 2pm to find the boss asking me to have a look at the server, because it was “down”.
To make matters about a thousand times worse, when i asked where the backups were stored, i got the simplistic answer “huh?”
Formatted server, no backups and newarly 200Gb of customre, product and tax data GONE!
BTW I quit not long after, i can stand technofools…
well, where to start.
i finally saved the money needed for an OS holiday and set my sights on Japan, i had a friend living there and thought i could go visit him at the same time… maybe not such a good idea.
my GF decided that we shouldn’t take my apple laptop but her PC, using the old “what if it gets stolen” excuse, again not such a good idea.
the holiday was great, lots of photos loaded onto the laptop each night until the hard drive started to get full. Thats OK i thought, i can just burn some CDs at my friends place in a couple of days, but first a trip to the monkeys in the snow… What an awesome experience, till the next day, i couldn’t find my wallet. It had been stolen with 30,000 yen inside from the place we were staying at. Great. Japan of all places to get my wallet stolen, OK, i can deal with that i thought, its only money. After returning to my friends place we started to organise and copy off the pics on the laptop so we had room for all the cool pictures of the monkeys, when his 3 year old son decided to get my attention by banging a hammer on the thing that was hogging all my attention, the laptop.
After trying to restart it once (no joy) and then running the BIOS thing (hey im a mac guy ok) it seemed the hard drive was fine, it was the motherboard that was broken, cool, i can still get the last 3 weeks of photos off when i get home… but it wasn’t the motherboard, it was the hard drive which the IT dept. at work kindly showed me by simply placing another hard drive into the laptop and starting it up.
that was nearly 3 years ago.
to top it off, my GF dropped my ipod at sydney airport waiting for a taxi and broke that too.
(total loss = 1 laptop (with holiday snaps), 1 wallet and 1 ipod)
i think that because of all this, we went to the US for our next holiday, and i shot 10 clips with a uzi into a target of osama, and 100 round from a .357 into one of saddam…
man was that fun, and i took my apple laptop, i have all the pics from “that” holiday…
would dearly love to relive that holiday in Japan… HELP
well, where to start.
i finally saved the money needed for an OS holiday and set my sights on Japan, i had a friend living there and thought i could go visit him at the same time… maybe not such a good idea.
my GF decided that we shouldn’t take my apple laptop but her PC, using the old “what if it gets stolen” excuse, again not such a good idea.
the holiday was great, lots of photos loaded onto the laptop each night until the hard drive started to get full. Thats OK i thought, i can just burn some CDs at my friends place in a couple of days, but first a trip to the monkeys in the snow… What an awesome experience, till the next day, i couldn’t find my wallet. It had been stolen with 30,000 yen inside from the place we were staying at. Great. Japan of all places to get my wallet stolen, OK, i can deal with that i thought, its only money. After returning to my friends place we started to organise and copy off the pics on the laptop so we had room for all the cool pictures of the monkeys, when his 3 year old son decided to get my attention by banging a hammer on the thing that was hogging all my attention, the laptop.
After trying to restart it once (no joy) and then running the BIOS thing (hey im a mac guy ok) it seemed the hard drive was fine, it was the motherboard that was broken, cool, i can still get the last 3 weeks of photos off when i get home… but it wasn’t the motherboard, it was the hard drive which the IT dept. at work kindly showed me by simply placing another hard drive into the laptop and starting it up.
that was nearly 3 years ago.
to top it off, my GF dropped my ipod at sydney airport waiting for a taxi and broke that too.
(total loss = 1 laptop (with holiday snaps), 1 wallet and 1 ipod)
i think that because of all this, we went to the US for our next holiday, and i shot 10 clips with a uzi into a target of osama, and 100 round from a .357 into one of saddam…
man was that fun, and i took my apple laptop, i have all the pics from “that” holiday…
would dearly love to relive that holiday in Japan… HELP
doh (just checked back and noticed i double posted), i was having a bad day ok, any chance of removing the double entry mods?
My own hellish experience:
I work for a medium-sized training administration company. In 2005, our IT Officer left, and as people had been impressed by my desktop support skills, I was offered his position.
Six months later, though I didn’t recognise it at the time, I was struggling to keep my head above water, filling multiple roles and having no real prior experience in network and server management.
On Monday, December 19 (it’s not a date I will ever forget), I attempted to add an extra SCSI drive to the RAID array of our one and only fileserver. Wading my way through the process without any documentation or prior experience, I inadvertently hit the ‘Initialize’ button. At this stage I was oblivious to the significance of what had just happened, and I rebooted, thinking all was well.
Needless to say, the server didn’t come back up, and as I saw the boot error appear, I realised what I had done. Being the cool cookie that I am, I didn’t panic.
“It’s not so bad, I’ll have to rebuild the machine and restore from Friday’s backup. We’ll lose a few of today’s documents, but that’s it,” I thought. So I called in a friend, and together we rebuilt the server.
After a few hours of installing software and drivers, I called my boss.
“I have some bad news – I think we’ve lost today’s work. But don’t worry, we should be back up and running by the morning.”
We got the backup software installed. Friday’s backup tape went in, and whirred away.
:::: No data found on disk. Please insert next backup media. ::::
“Oh no.”
Thursday’s tape. No data. Wednesday’s. No data. Tuesday, Monday, the Monthly… nothing. By this time I was starting to get pretty worried. Finally, we had success when we loaded up the six-monthly backup tape, which, as Murphy’s law would dictate, had last been backed up almost six months ago. For whatever reason, the backups that the previous IT Officer had set up hadn’t been working. I had naively not been testing the backups.
I called my boss again and detailed to her the gravity of the situation (boy, that was fun).
Upon hearing the news of the huge loss of data, staff reactions were most commonly tearful and mistrusting. Over the course of the next five days, I worked almost 90 hours, scanning printed documents through an OCR scanner, re-creating shares, missing out on my family’s Christmas holiday, and generally totally busting my ass to the point of exhaustion. This was probably the worst week of my life (although I’m glad I can say that data loss is the worst thing I’ve suffered). The whole event cost my company about $10,000 up front, and lord knows how many dollars’ worth of work.
Amazingly, I retained my job, and still hold the same position. I now work with an IT consultancy firm on large jobs, and have recently completed a Microsoft course on server management. We have set up an offsite tape backup, the onsite tape backup, and three separate network backups, plus Volume Shadow Copy. And I would have more backups if the budget allowed.
Thankfully, I have passed my lesson-by-fire, and will never, ever neglect backups again!
PS. My grandchildren better appreciate that story when I am an old man!
ok, well this has only just happened in the last two months, so I am still hoping that this might be rescueable!!
I have, or had a g4 laptop. 60gb. I have had it for a number of years and have been using it for business, building my website, answering client emails, ordering, pricing etc. I have an inventory of over 400 items with differing pricing structures and weights that I get shipped over from the States. My business took me about two years to build and all my data was stored on this laptop.
Adding to the above, I have recently been audited by the Australian Taxation Office, within the last couple of years and have been fighting them in court. Of course, all of my data that I need, including rulings, letters from companies asking for sales, emails from suppliers, orders and taxation information is stored on my computer. (not to mention all my pricing schedules etc) and contracts.
I also have a 4 and a half year old son, and due to my family being in the UK, I have religiously recorded every moment of his upbringing, videos, and photos..over 2 thousand photos. I send this to my mum as she doesn’t get to see him often as she has breast cancer and is recovering with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
I was about to go overseas to find some information on my business for my courtcase, and was in Dubai going through the airport. You know how you have to take your laptop out of your bag now? Well, I did this, gave it to the guard and he then sent it through the conveyor, it went through the machine fine. Great I thought. He then proceeded to place my laptop into my bag and hand me the laptop bag………without doing the zip up and upside down. My laptop slipped out of my bag, crashed on the conveyor, and fell to the floor.
cracked screen. failed logic board. I tried booting it in the hotel a couple of times and it would fail, with a big crack down the screen.
I took it to a place in the uk who wanted to charge me 2000 pounds to recover data.
I have a court case to fight, and every single recorded memory of my son’s first 4 and a half years, not to mention my website and every email and piece of music I have, all gone!
I am desperately in need of this get out of jail free card as it might literally be just that! If I can’t defend myself and prove that I have been running a business legitimately, I will face fines of over $100k, and possibly bankruptcy! I pulled my website down a few weeks back to work on it, and don’t even have copies on the server, nor of my email.
Can it be much worse? (my insurance company has so far refused to cover the laptop, and definately won’t cover the data recovery).
The irony is, I was going to buy a hard drive in Dubai to back up all my data as I figured I could get better value for money in the duy free electronics there!!
ok, well this has only just happened in the last two months, so I am still hoping that this might be rescueable!!
I have, or had a g4 laptop. 60gb. I have had it for a number of years and have been using it for business, building my website, answering client emails, ordering, pricing etc. I have an inventory of over 400 items with differing pricing structures and weights that I get shipped over from the States. My business took me about two years to build and all my data was stored on this laptop.
Adding to the above, I have recently been audited by the Australian Taxation Office, within the last couple of years and have been fighting them in court. Of course, all of my data that I need, including rulings, letters from companies asking for sales, emails from suppliers, orders and taxation information is stored on my computer. (not to mention all my pricing schedules etc) and contracts.
I also have a 4 and a half year old son, and due to my family being in the UK, I have religiously recorded every moment of his upbringing, videos, and photos..over 2 thousand photos. I send this to my mum as she doesn’t get to see him often as she has breast cancer and is recovering with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
I was about to go overseas to find some information on my business for my courtcase, and was in Dubai going through the airport. You know how you have to take your laptop out of your bag now? Well, I did this, gave it to the guard and he then sent it through the conveyor, it went through the machine fine. Great I thought. He then proceeded to place my laptop into my bag and hand me the laptop bag………without doing the zip up and upside down. My laptop slipped out of my bag, crashed on the conveyor, and fell to the floor.
cracked screen. failed logic board. I tried booting it in the hotel a couple of times and it would fail, with a big crack down the screen.
I took it to a place in the uk who wanted to charge me 2000 pounds to recover data.
I have a court case to fight, and every single recorded memory of my son’s first 4 and a half years, not to mention my website and every email and piece of music I have, all gone!
I am desperately in need of this get out of jail free card as it might literally be just that! If I can’t defend myself and prove that I have been running a business legitimately, I will face fines of over $100k, and possibly bankruptcy! I pulled my website down a few weeks back to work on it, and don’t even have copies on the server, nor of my email.
Can it be much worse? (my insurance company has so far refused to cover the laptop, and definately won’t cover the data recovery).
The irony is, I was going to buy a hard drive in Dubai to back up all my data as I figured I could get better value for money in the duy free electronics there!!
I was doing everything right. I was backing up my data regularly to an external drive. I even kept a copy of my data on my laptop (mostly family photos). Then, for no reason, my pc stopped working. The drive was making horrible noises. Purchased a new drive, reinstalled everything, plugged in the external drive, half way through copying data it started making noises. That died shortly thereafter. No problem. I had my laptop. Next day my laptop was stolen. I got managed to save most of my photos but all in all it could have gone better.
I lost the final draft of my Honours thesis and my 2 backup floppies when my bag containing my laptop and floppy case was stolen from my car.
I had a month old copy on my home desktop but had taken to sitting outside and typing in the sun when the weather improved…
Normally I kept the backup floppies, one at home, one with my laptop, but in my caffeine induced zombie like state that morning after a long night’s typing I’d packed both…
I’d been told horror stories of people having no backup at the start of the year and was determined to do things right!!
From that moment on, I kept a backup on the Uni server, the Uni desktop, my laptop, one floppy and my home desktop…
I existed to write, backup, and occasionally sleep for the remaining 6 weeks of the year…
I still have the floppy, it’s wonderfully corrupted!! There is an infinite loop of folders on it somehow… you open Folder A, inside is Folder B, inside that is Folder A, and inside that is Folder B etc etc etc…Folder B contains an uncorrupted copy of my final thesis..(when last I checked anyway, I don’t have a floppy drive anymore!!) So, I have infinite backup copies all on the one 1.44Mb…the ultimate backup device??
My recovery story is as follows:
I work as a software engineer developing embedded software and I have a very complex development environment setup on my PC at work and had to travel to the US (I’m based in Australia) for 3-4 weeks for customer witness testing (and fixing of bugs/issues before the customer notices them) so I needed a development environment on my laptop which took over 2 weeks to setup. Since I got given the laptop and it had all the software I needed I was very careful with it making sure it never left my sight in transit and made sure to be extra gentle with it. After around the 2th day of work in the US, the laptop suddenly froze when I was compiling something and wouldn’t reboot with the usual “cannot detect system disk” error. From there it was obviously quite quickly that the hard drive had died and over 2 weeks work lost.
After the hard drive died management agreed it was best to try recover the data and I ended up taking the hard drive to a drop off location (we were under the impression that the work was going to be done in the state we were in but ended up being done in California) but on the way as I was stressed, jet lagged in a rush, I walked (actually ran) across a main one way street and a police officer decided to book me for jay walking. My fine was around $50 USD which I went to the local court house and filled in an appeal form to appeal it on “extraordinary circumstances” and they said they’d send me more documentation in the mail (I put my Australian address) but they never sent anything and hence I never paid the fine. After a few days the data recovery company (it wasn’t CBL) told me that the hard drive couldnt be recovered so I had to work for 2 or so weeks using remote desktop from the US to Australia (hint – incredibly slow). To make things worse the laptop was basically unusable without a replacement hard drive which Dell wouldn’t supply initially without having the broken hard drive which I assume was in bits.
Now earlier this year I went to the US with my girlfriend for a holiday it seems now every time we go through security procedures at airports we get the major pad down and bag search. I don’t want to say it’s because of my jaywalking but you never know ;).
Regards
Mark Jaywalker
My story is one that happened a few years back.
I was doing a few essays for school. I had a folder on my desktop pc which contains folders of my subjects and inside each subject folders were my essays. I always start off creating blank documents and saving them just to get the impression that I’ve actually started something. Last day of submission is the next day, so I stood up all night just to finish the essays. As I finish an essay, I saved it on my flash drive so I wont forget to bring it to school. As soon as I finished all of them (3 essays for 3 subjects), I closed everything down except for 2 windows… Windows Explorer that shows the folder for my subjects. I had them one on top of each other. So I made the windows smaller and placed the one which contains the files on my flash drive on the right side and the other one (the empty ones on my desktop) on the left side. I made sure that I knew exactly which side contained the finished essays, the one on the right did. But for some reason, I right clicked on the taskbar and selected Tile Windows Vertically. Assuming that the right side still contained the finished essays, I selected all (Ctrl+A), then cut and pasted it onto the left side. And then asked me to overwrite and I said Yes. Then after that, I checked the folders and was horrified to find out that they are empty!
I had no other choice but to start over. Luckily I still knew bits of what I wrote so I was able to re-write my essays.
Mine is pretty simple. I had an internal 300gig hard drive and i had just finished writing my SAC for school (a SAC is a test in victoria that if you fail you fail matric, so it’s pretty damn important). I had been meaning for a while to put my hard drive into a dodgy external hard drive case that i had got at a swap meet. I stupidly didn’t back up my essay, and soon after transferring the hard drive it started ticking and wouldn’t show up on the computer. I tried to swap it back but that didn’t help either. It turns out I had lost all my essay plus all my data (music, vids, games). This was at 1:30pm. I started re-writing it at 3:00 and finished at 8:00 and managed to get to school on time for 8:30 to hand it in. I managed to get an A (score!!!) and ended up sleeping through the rest of the day with my head on the desk
AHHHHHH!!!!!
I LOST 1 YEAR OF FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGN WORK ON SUNDAY!!! 1 YEAR PEOPLE!!!
Finally saved up a bit of money working freelance to put back into the business so I went out and bought a 500GB external hard drive to back up all my precious little files.
I installed some backup software that I downloaded from the Apple website (a staff pick none the less) and set it all up to copy my work across. After a test with some dummy files I started the sync and then stopped it after only a minute in because it was going to take 2 hours and I needed to finish some work…
… and then…. gone….
all the files… 40 freakin gig of files gone…
The directories are there but no files. None on the original drive. None on the external hard drive. I’ve tried using Techtool Pro, File salvage and Disc Warrior to recover them but I get nothing.
If anyone has any ideas PLEASE POST THEM HERE!
To make it all worse IT ALL HAPPENED 2 DAYS TOO LATE TO ENTER THE FREAKIN COMPETITION!
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