SOS Computer Help - Please

[Classic Finn]

Has this happened to any of you?

My computer crashed!! I rebooted back online. I lost my Sent
and All my incoming - email!! Photos that were attatched to them
as well.

I lost sent out email copies from July of this year plus all incoming email.
from Inbox.


Is there a program or a way to recover these.. This included nice photos
from fellow teardrop builders as well!! Im saddened..

Best wishes
Classic Finn

[madjack]

...Finn, you may well be screwed BUT here is something to try http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/download.htm and here is a google page of stuff
madjack

[Will Smith]

this is a program I have used. this is the description:
http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/amd/8 ... index.html

and this is the direct download:
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/driverescue19d.zip

Hope it helps

[Classic Finn]

Thank you Both! Ohhhh boyyyyyy this is tiresome!! UGH!

Persistence - Persistence

Madjack - used that program - nuttin so far!! But Im smilin still -

I,ll try the next programs now that will mentions - Glad the wife and lil one is sleeping.
Nice and quiet listen to www.cmt.com at the same time.


Classic Finn

[Classic Finn]

Will - I downloaded the program and then scanned - It came up with a lot of Data ... It shows Green MFT and then numbers.. What the next procedure to open them???

PS This program is for lost email as well right? As well as attatched photos with them?

Classic Finn

[madjack]

...Finn I really can't help past what I posted as I have not had that problem before. I do know that you lose stuff and then in the process of D/L something else, that the new data may be written over the lost data and then no recovery is possible. I use the Mozilla browser and have a program that backs up all email, favorites, ect. it has saved me some greif in the past...I backup my whole PC, on a regular basis, using Acronis True Image
madjack

[Classic Finn]

Madjack I sincerely appreciate all the info. And I take it openly.
Thank you - Kiitos in Finnish!


I did retreive a lot of the stuff lost with the program that Will gave.
The only thing is that this happened to be our Business Labtop as well
and it Really gave me a Bad Hair Day.. I just got to try to open it now.



This Computer World is great: If it dont crash... But ok this can happen to any of us....which I never hope..

Dont stop me from building the Teardrop though. PS Madjack I did loose
your email too. All of it. Could you resend it to me?

Classic Finn

[Will Smith]

when you find a file you want to save, right click on it another menu will appear, select save. Just be aware the files you see are all the files you have deleted from the first day you had your computer, could be a lot of stuff you do not need. Find the folder you saved your e-mail in and search it, see if anything looks familiar.

Will - I downloaded the program and then scanned - It came up with a lot of Data ... It shows Green MFT and then numbers.. What the next procedure to open them???

PS This program is for lost email as well right? As well as attatched photos with them?

Classic Finn

[westover]

If the Photos you seek are trully intact and in your machine (You did NOT reformat the drive and completely reload the computer!) Then you can try the simple search feature that came with Windows!

Click 'Start", go to 'Search' and click (Windows XP) Choose 'files ar folders' Then click! Then choose "Photos, Music or Video' click on that. Then check 'Pictures and Photos' and in the space under 'All or part of the file name:' Type one of the following " *.jpg " and search for that. Save all that you find to a folder. Then search again and try " *.gif " Keep trying all the extensions that are on the ends of Photos that you have saved and, if they are still IN the computer, You shuould find them intact.

AND NEXT TIME, get another hard drive and Back-up everything to that Second Hard Drive. WHen a computer crashes, it normally only effects the 'C' drive. Your CD-ROM is always "D:" normally, so your second Hard Drive should show as "E:", Back-up everything to this drive.

OR

Use your cdrw drive and burn Back-ups of your collections. Select the "Leave open, so I can add to the compilation." button and you'll be able to use the entire cd before you start another.

Example! The computer, from which this email ariginated, crahed last Friday, two weeks ago. It has a "C:", "E:" and "F:" drive. The 'F' drive is a SATA drive that holds 300 Gigabytes. I lost nothing afdter reloading EVERYTHING back into the computer. BECAUSE I had a full back-up running at all times. The extra expense is worth every penny. After rebates the 300 was only $119. I think you get the "picture" now!

[Classic Finn]

Yup its always like this: I,ll go and back up everything tomorrow and tomorrow and oooops - bang and crash - computer is down...


The computer crashes when you least expect it to.. I have to save on a teardrop part and run out to get some computer things now for sure.
Cant let it happen again... or should I say try to avoid it from happening again.

No computer - No Teardrop Buddies!!! As far as Finland is concerned
with anyway... most of them here have rv,s and fancy campers but no
down to earth Teardrops..

I did get some email retreived and still working on it..had to put our lil
one down to sleep but I guess its back to the grindstone again..90 percent
of the files I lost was important email with a few photos....


To Each and everyone of you. thank you for your help..

Classic Finn

[mikeschn]

Backups should be a way of life, unfortunately, we don't back up enough...

I use 2 external harddrives. One to store my data on, and one to make backups.

Every month I backup my Outlook Data to a pst file, and put it on my data drive.

Then, I copy all the files from my data drive to my backup drive. Voila! Backed Up!!!

How you restore is an important consideration also...

If I have a computer crash I reload my programs, and I am done. My data is still in tact on the data drive. Import the Outlook data, and you've got all your mail back too!

Now if you're really smart, you'll load all your programs on a clean hard drive, and then create a master image of your harddrive using ghost. Then any time you crash, you just reload your master image, and you're back in business. And your data is still safe on your external drive!

Mike...