mac soft ware recovery
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There is no way to recover data?
I am sure some one on here told me they could recover data on my PC if lost same way. So why not Mac?
Way back when I bought me MDG desktop... remember Cimo? My Fu and I both had same prob shortly after we bought them. Took them down to MDG and they reinstalled Windows XP. Then someone on here told me they could put my puter 'on a rack?' and get back my lost pics and music files etc. I never did go and get it done though... just reloaded everything by hand.
Anyway ... welcome to the board. Look around, have fun.
I am sure some one on here told me they could recover data on my PC if lost same way. So why not Mac?
Way back when I bought me MDG desktop... remember Cimo? My Fu and I both had same prob shortly after we bought them. Took them down to MDG and they reinstalled Windows XP. Then someone on here told me they could put my puter 'on a rack?' and get back my lost pics and music files etc. I never did go and get it done though... just reloaded everything by hand.
Anyway ... welcome to the board. Look around, have fun.
Here Here, didn't you know that nothing ever goes wrong with macs and they do everything including BBBJCIM?Radio_Shack said:
Shit cimosabe, you MUST have a pc on your hands made to just LOOK like a mac.......
But hawk, you don't get it. My buddy says you can not have any issues with Mac so I think this is a joke thread.TheNiteHwk said:
Of course Mac is THE Best. Da shit my man .
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant
Yes, I posted that before.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant
Yes, I posted that before.
Save your money. By reinstalling your OS, the computer overwrote the files. You might want to run out and try Tech Tool Pro, to see if it can recover files, but you want to have an external drive as large or larger than your drive.cimosawbe said:
But an external drive anyway, and start using "Back up" nightly
Not necessarily. For example, when you "delete" an application or file, the contents on the hard drive will still be there, it's just that the computer no longer knows where they are. If you were to install fresh applications and files then yes the computer will overwrite the data.Compromised said:
I'm not sure if TTP is a data recovery tool.Compromised said:
If the files are really that important and the OP has not used his computer since installing the new OS then some of his files may be recovered by a data recovery service.
I have an idea for recovering your software: Since Macs never fail, never corrupt or ever do anything you don't want them to do, why don't you just wave your magic pencil over the monitor? That will fix everything!! lol
I found it !!!!
It's all there, even the stuff I did not know I had,(delete later), I used Boomerang data recovery as a demo and it showed me all my old files! now I just have to buy it, or find it in a P2P site and score it . Thanks for all the help,( well at least to most,lol)
It's all there, even the stuff I did not know I had,(delete later), I used Boomerang data recovery as a demo and it showed me all my old files! now I just have to buy it, or find it in a P2P site and score it . Thanks for all the help,( well at least to most,lol)
WHAT??? the magic pencil didn't work? FUCK me I thought macs were PERFECT???
ahhh the horror, the horror......
ahhh the horror, the horror......
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If you did a good job of your reinstall, you wiped the HD clean and everything's likely gone. The good folks at Carbon or BEam can probably figure that out at the counter just by questioning what you did.
If there's anything that can be recovered, the standard advice is: DO NOT USE the computer/HD for anything until you have done all the recovery. In a 'quick and dirty reinstall' that just overwrote the existing stuff, what wasn't overwritten and destroyed is still there, just 'orphaned'—no recognizable ID—so your new OS can't 'see' it. Like Customs and Immigration can't see you when you don't have your passport. But everytime you turn on the box a little more of it disappears forever.
User-level file recovery software, like FileSalvage™ or Boomerang™ (about $100) hunts thru the drive for characteristic file features, gives likely possibilities generic names like Excel 0001 thru Excel 7863, and it's up to you to inspect and re-name the salvage. And you need to run it from an external boot drive or disk. As a freebie, an outfit called VirtualLab™lets you DL their client app., run it and pay only if the results seem promising.
Best of luck to you.
If there's anything that can be recovered, the standard advice is: DO NOT USE the computer/HD for anything until you have done all the recovery. In a 'quick and dirty reinstall' that just overwrote the existing stuff, what wasn't overwritten and destroyed is still there, just 'orphaned'—no recognizable ID—so your new OS can't 'see' it. Like Customs and Immigration can't see you when you don't have your passport. But everytime you turn on the box a little more of it disappears forever.
User-level file recovery software, like FileSalvage™ or Boomerang™ (about $100) hunts thru the drive for characteristic file features, gives likely possibilities generic names like Excel 0001 thru Excel 7863, and it's up to you to inspect and re-name the salvage. And you need to run it from an external boot drive or disk. As a freebie, an outfit called VirtualLab™lets you DL their client app., run it and pay only if the results seem promising.
Best of luck to you.
Same applies to Windows.
A friend did a format then reinstalled Windows without backing up files he wanted to save!
After the reinstall he wondered if any could be found. Ran 3 recovery apps and only found some fragments of old files that weren't overwritten but he lost all the files he was looking for.
He now uses an external HDD to store his important data, in addition to what is saved on his PC.
