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[toodlez2000]

For ages now my computer has been being a bitch and playing up on me. I kept asking Tim if he could back up all my stuff for me so that we could format it but he never got around to it. And then Wednesday night my computer decided that was it. Found out yesterday that EVERYTHING on my computer is gone :-(

My first question is to nerds - are you

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[7lifeuncommon7]

Bugger!

There are ways und means, but they tend to be expensive. Unless you know an ubergeek who could do it for you, you'd have to go with a shop. The one I saw that advertised recovery did it at $85, but I'm not entirely sure how the fee is applied, i.e. per so many gigabyte, or per hour of technician time?

Suck0rz. Hope days get better, soon.

[guiltyschu]

It'll cost to go see if you can get it recovered, but ultimately cheaper than rebuying your music and losing all your photo memories.

And after you read this comment, do NOT do anything else on the computer until you take it in to get recovered! Not a thing! I read about this once, and I'm not sure if I'm recounting the details perfectly, but when stuff gets deleted on your computer, some of that data still remains and can be recovered. But everytime you use your computer, the new data that's being processed saves over a little of the old data that's being stored. Or something. But stop using your computer immediately!

[7lifeuncommon7]

True dat. But I suspect she's not using her computer, if it's as dead as it sounds.

Yeah, it remains until written over, which is what formatting is, in a sense. Unless things went really fubar. ;)

[guiltyschu]

Unless things have changed recently, Leanne's computer is the only one in the house. And if she's at work, someone else may even be on it now, not realising they're potentially screwing things up. Hmm. Maybe I should SMS her and let her know.

[toodlez2000]

*sigh* I am quite pissed off. Tim and I argued last night about it. He reckoned there was no way to get everything back and I knew I had seen things were they can recover deleted stuff off a computer - police do it all the time. So he reinstalled windows and refused to call Chris, his friend who is like a genuis with computers. So I used the computer for about half an hr before work this morning to put my plea out there but Tim has been playing computer games on it all afternoon grrrr.

I already feel like he is partly to blame for things stuffing up in the first place and I asked him not to do anything with the computer cuz a) he doesn't know what he is doing. b) someone might be able to fix it but not if we've been using it.

Men never listen. so pissed off.

uhm

[slavick]

Formatting doesn't do shit to your computer. It only changes the file format (ntfs, fat, fs3) whatever and cut the links towards the files.
And then it looks like it has been deleted. When u reinstall windows there might be a good chance u have like 80-90% left of the previous install. Deleting is actually overwriting bytes and that will happen over time... Don't touch and go on a installing rampage and check this link:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/collection/collid,1295-order,1-c,downloads/files.html
and pick ur flavor.

ciao