[NJARC] HARD DRIVE CRASH !

[John Tyminski]

Hi Thanks guys for all the suggestions and support! The hard drive was a
external hard disk drive. What happened was I brought the hard disk drive to
Infoage with the plan of backing up everything on it on my computer in the
Infoage library. Unfortunately When I tried to do this in mid file copy from
my HDD to my PC a error message came up, when this happened everything was
wiped from my HDD.

I have a offer from a NJARC member to try and recover everything that was on
my HDD. I will not be doing anything with my HDD until he looks at it. The
chance is their that I may be able to recover all I have lost but I'm not
counting on it.

So if any one out there has any photos, manuals or Documents I have sent
you, or photos you may have taken. I would really appreciate it if any one
out there could please send me anything of mine you may have

Thanks John T

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Sean O'Sullivan <sosull at optonline.net>wrote:

> Hi John,
>
>
> I don't post here much...I joined intending to some day restore my
> grandparents radio....haven't gotten to it yet.
>
> Anyway  I saw your post...   I'm a computer geek by trade and thought I
> would throw some info your way.
> I apologize for bothering you if you already know and have tried this
> stuff.
>
> It's a bummer losing files....maybe I can offer some help....
>
> First of all check the recycle bin on the computer....sometimes you can
> find deleted files there and restore them easily.   (maybe you did this
> already but I thought I'd bring it up)
>
> Second...   Windows has an index of sorts that tells it where on the hard
> drive files can be found.  When files are deleted...all windows does is
> update the index (file allocation table)
> It doesn't actually erase the files.....it just marks that space available
> again.    This means that if you haven't written a lot of data to the drive
> since the deletion you may be able to get files back.
> There are several utilities that can help you recover your files.....go
> over to www.download.com and search for undelete...there are several
> utilities that can help.  Most modern window machines (XP or better) use an
> NTFS file system, so look for an NTFS undelete utility.
>
> The best thing to do is to go to download.com on another computer...(not
> the one with the files....because you don't want to overwrite
> anything)...and put one of the utilities on a thumb drive.
> Take that thumb drive back to the computer with the files and run the
> utility to see if you can recover your files.
>
> Another thing to try is a recovery utility on your media....camera flash
> cards and such.....you may be able to get erased files off of them too.
>
>
> One last thing....from you note it sounded like an accidental erase rather
> that a real disk crash...if it's a disk crash and you want some things to
> try...... drop me a note back and I'll give you my list for that.
>
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Sean O'Sullivan
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Tyminski" <
> tubeularelectronics at gmail.com>
>
> To: <njarc at mailman.qth.net>; <infoage at freelists.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 3:35 PM
>
> Subject: [NJARC] HARD DRIVE CRASH !
>
>
>  Just remember
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>> _________________________________________________________
>> Last weekend I was trying to back everything up on my hard drive, anyway
>> in
>> the process something went wrong and every thing was erased ! All my
>> personal photos, Before and afters of restorations, Photos of ebay sales
>> and
>> listings. everything gone ! Luckily I had most my PDF scans backed up so I
>> only lost a few hundred pages of scanned documents.
>>
>> Anyway if any of you guys out there have any photos of mine Could you
>> please
>> send them to me ?
>> I would be so thankful.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> John T
>>
>> Ps anyone on the Infoage reflector Please Respond to my email directly I
>> am
>> no longer on that reflector !
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