[pchelpers] Re: lost data

Scott McNay wrote:

>Hi PcCowboy,
>
>Tuesday, August 30, 2005, 5:54:08 PM, you wrote:
>
>P> If a program was used to wipe the drive then it was a DOD one from
>P> as clean as this drive is.
>
>You said that one program was able to find a couple of files... which
>means there's SOMETHING there.
>  
>
Yes I did, but it was only one program that found them and in dos mode 
on raw scan. It found a
pcx file that was 190 mb. Now what graphic file would be on a XP 
computer that is 190 mb big?
We didn't have one. And when I tried to recover it I got the message 
that there was nothing to recover.
Also this program did a raw scan in windows and it didn't find them again.
I tried spinrite 6 and it report that every sector was clean and empty.


>If you have a disk editor, you might want to look at the drive
>directly, to see what it looks like. 
>
Could you point me to a disk editor

> I remember, in the MFM drive
>days, I'd sometimes come across drives from which nothing could be
>recovered.  On a surprising number of them, it turned out that one bit
>in each word was forced on or forced off. 
>
I read that was how some programs delete files. But the recovery 
programs that I use take that
into account when it scans. The Easy Recovery Pro cost around $1500 so 
it better take that into
account.
I have used this program to recover my son's data after he 
re-partitioned it and formated it. That is why
I'm so surprise that it can't find one bit of data.

All of this isn't as important as it was. I found one backup from 7/15 
for one of the invoicing program. It
was that one that I made showing the girls how to do it. This invoicing 
program was being phased out
and we had switch over to Quicken. It only had around 70 invoices in it 
and I was able to replace these
by hand from the hard copies that we made for the customers files. We 
only made hard copies of the invoice
as the customers paid them. So the ones who hasn't paid, there isn't 
anything to type in. I got to thinking
on the way home today that I have copies of all my work orders for this 
month that I havn't turned in yet
for my commission. I should be able to go through those and find some of 
the missing invoice numbers since
I write the invoice # on my work orders when I enter them into the 
computers when the work is done.

Pc


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