[access-uk] Re: All 55 gig of my music gone!
- From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:35:25 +0100
Hi,
I wouldn't do a system restore. It sounds like the FAT table has got
damaged and needs further investigation - as its FAT32 there is a bigger
chance of recovery than on NTFS, because you can do some stuff from a
dos boot disk.
Andrew.
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of simon.dowling
Sent: 23 October 2005 12:14
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: All 55 gig of my music gone!
hi Donna, there are some data recovery programs out there but not very
accessible for the blind.
have you tried a system restore?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna Waring" <donna@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Access-UK" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 6:39 AM
Subject: [access-uk] All 55 gig of my music gone!
> Hi guys
>
> Thankfully I have two drives on my computer which is XP Home. The
> smallest one has all my university books and work, and the bigger one
has
> backups of these books and work, plus a load of music and audio
described
> videos.
>
> The big one is the F drive, and I defragmented this yesterday. There
was
> no indication at all that anything was wrong, and I also downloaded
some
> priority updates from the Windows Update website.
>
> I turned off the computer as normal, and in turning it on this
morning, I
> found that some of my shortcuts didn't work. Then it told me that my
F
> drive was not formatted, and when I looked in the properties, it said
0
> bites when I knew there was 55 GB of stuff there.
>
> I can't take the computer to the shop today as it closes on a Sunday,
and
> although I'm sad at losing all my music and videos, I'm more relieved
that
> thankfully I still have all my books for uni and my work, which is
> aditionally backed up onto cd. However the music isn't backed up as
there
> is so much of it, so I will have to see what if anything the shop can
> recover.
>
> Several questions I wanted to ask:
>
> I've run Add Aware and my anti-virus. All fine. So does anyone have
any
> idea what could have caused this?
>
> Also, if the stuff has gone and the drive is reformatted by the shop,
> should I ask them for NTFS or Fat32? Which is best? The drive was
> originally fat32.
>
> I just can't think at all what could have made this happen. One
minute
> all the stuff was there and then it was gone.
>
> Donna
>
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