Laptop update

[ceebaby]

I borrowed a USB cage from a co-worker to see if I could suck the data off my laptop's hardrive. And it works - except for the My Documents directory - the one with all my data. Insert lots of cursing here

Comments

[bene]

See if someone with a Linux / Unix machine can get the data for you. When my last desktop windows machine ate it, that was the only way I was able to salvage the data .

[ceebaby]

A friend sent me a Data recovery program - which appears to have worked. I got windows reinstalled yesterday & started loading files & preferences back on. My outlook file is definitely ok.

Yay!

[tranceboy]

I'll put some data recovery software on my website. It can take 8-12 hours to run depending on the condition of the drive, but I've had pretty good success with it.

I'll e-mail you with the URL.

[ceebaby]

thanks honey!! That is so very appreciated!

[tranceboy]

Key places to pull files from :
My Documents
X:\Documents and Settings\[username]\My Documents
Desktop
X:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Desktop
Favorites
IE
X:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Favorites
Firefox
X:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[arglebargle]\bookmarks.html
E-Mail
Outlook
X:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\Outlook
Outlook Express
X:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\[foo]\Microsoft\Outlook Express

[ceebaby]

thanks! *fingers crossed* that it can access My Documents folder!

[chrisfs]

MY Documents folder is tricky because it's not necessarily where you expect it to be. Did you grab the Windows folder ?
It has some long folder name
c:/windows/blah/username/desktop/mydocuments/

something along those lines. When I had to copy from one drive to another I had to look around for it for a while before I found it.

[redstickman]

doh. i'm sorry, hon. wish you said something when i stopped by, i could have tried to take a look at it.

[ceebaby]

Thanks sweetie. I don't want to jinx myself, but the data recover program tranceboy gave me, is running right now & seems to be working. I'll have a better idea in 18 more hours!

Wug.

[owlslight]

Honey.

I'm sorry.

That's LAME.

*hands you a big stick to beat it with*

Re: Wug.

[ceebaby]

No stick! Tempting - but I want it to still work after! :)

And, so far, so good. The data recovery program appears to have worked & I have my laptop up & running again! My hard drive appears to still have some issues - so I should probably get a new one. I'm going to try & hold out til Christmas & just back up frequently between now & then!

*big sigh of relief*