[pchelpers] lost data

Got into work this morning and found that our main computer with the message
"Strike F1 no drive found"
You do and it asks again and again.
Took the drive out and put it into my bench computer.
Bios sees it. XP sees it and wants to partition and format it.
This is a 60 gig drive with a NTFS and 1 years worth of
invoices. And the girls decided that they didn't need to burn
no stinking backups. They back-up to the root drive. So all
is lost.

I ran 3 hard-drive tests programs and there is no problem
with the drive.
Except that it is empty!! No partitions no nothing.
It is like someone came in and took out our drive and
replaced it with a brand new one.

I tried Easy Recovery Pro 6. It didn't fine a thing not
one bit of data on the drive. Even in RAW mode.

Then I tried R- Studio No file system to be found.

Then PC Inspector File recovery, it to couldn't find
a file system.

I ran Easy Recovery Boot disc and after 5 hours and it
found 2 files. Fil0.pcx  190mb big and Fil0.jpg  37mb big
but couldn't recover them.

So anyone who has other people that does the back-ups
for you, check to see that they are doing it right.

Pc


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