[GreenKeys] BIG DUMMY!!

[Steve Schlink]

Tony,

You almost certainly will NOT need to pay for a recovery service, which can 
easily run into the thousands.

As long as you haven't written (e.g. saved) any files to that drive, you 
should be able to get most if not all of the files back.

FWI, when you "delete" a file in Winblows, it doesn't really (waste the 
time to) delete the data, it just marks the sector as available. So until 
that sector is subsequently used, the data is still there.

As stated there are numerous undelete programs available.

As a recommendation, if the data is really that important, I would make an 
image (copy) of the drive before you start messing with it.

The usual method is a Linux (or unix) based program called "dd" which does 
a sector by sector copy, which will result in an exact copy of the drive. 
No Winblows utility (that I know of) will do this.

I seem to recall a sig of a list member that was something along the lines 
of: "There are two kinds of people - those that have lost data and those 
that will."

Good luck,

Steve

At 12:10 PM 2/14/2010 -0500, Mark T. Regan, K8MTR wrote:
>Go to www.tucows.com and do a search for undelete and you will find several
>programs that might help. As long as you haven't reformatted the drive, it's
>possible to recovery the files.
>
>Mark T. Regan, K8MTR, <><
>CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1991)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>[mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Tony Snider
>Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 09:59
>To: RTTY Greenkeys
>Cc: Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [GreenKeys] BIG DUMMY!!
>
>yes that would be me. I was trying to back up my tech manual pdf
>collectionfrom one external to another. I intended to delete the old copy
>and deleted the new copy instead and lost 13 gigs worth. they were stored on
>an external drive. and were too big for recycle.   ANY HOPE?? running XP
>
>THANKS