[access-uk] Re: All 55 gig of my music gone!

  • From: "Donna Waring" <donna@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:59:55 +0100

Hiya Simon, I was about to do a system restore but it said it couldn't do it on my F drive as it wasn't formatted. Very weird. I think it's to the shop for the computer tomorrow! Grins.

Donna

----- Original Message ----- From: "simon.dowling" <simodowl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 12:13 PM
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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