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    Alienrespawn 2.0...

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by MyWK99, Mar 22, 2009.

  1. MyWK99

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    Heres the scoop, I have some important papers due tomorrow. Recently, I restored my system because it was running weird. I completely forgot about the papers, I used advanced restore from alienrespawn 2.0.

    It said I will be able to choose specific files from a folder created with a backup, there is one problem though, where is the backup?...

    I am running Recover My Files and so far it has found one of the papers I need, but I need a lot more. Any suggestions?

    Thanks guys!!
     
    MyWK99, Mar 22, 2009
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  2. whizzo

    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    ooh, that's bad. your only hope is that when files are "deleted", their disk space is merely marked for rewriting, so the data is still there, as long as it hasn't been overwritten yet. the problem is getting it back. if you can, hook up the HDD to another PC and creat a physical dump of the entire HDD (not sure if that's the right word, i mean to copy the raw data on the disk). if you can't do this just now, i think you'll have to hope the recovery tools find your data.
     
    whizzo, Mar 22, 2009
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  3. MyWK99

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    Recover My Files found a lot of old stuff, like formal labs, research papers, etc. I really hope I won't have to type it again... So far it has like 75-80% left to search.

    Thanks bro.
     
    MyWK99, Mar 22, 2009
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  4. whizzo

    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    are you on your m15x now?
     
    whizzo, Mar 22, 2009
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  5. MyWK99

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    I don't own an m15x.
     
    MyWK99, Mar 22, 2009
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  6. whizzo

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    your alienware laptop then.
     
    whizzo, Mar 22, 2009
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  7. MyWK99

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    Funny thing is, I own an area 51 desktop. This place just seemed like a great forum for help.

    And yeah, I'm on it now.
     
    MyWK99, Mar 22, 2009
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    If you end up NOT being able to find files this time I might have a suggestion:

    Is there any way you can create a "ghost image" of the drive's contents via Symantec? If you can just burn the drive's contents to a DVD (or multiple DVD's) then insert the DVD's and search manually for the titles of those papers. It might take 3-4 DVD's but it would be well worth it not to retype!
    -Alex
     
    FirecatF7, Mar 22, 2009
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  9. MyWK99

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    Is Symantec free?
     
    MyWK99, Mar 22, 2009
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    right. if you're lucky (pardon the sarcasm), the temp files you're creating this very second are overwriting your important papers.
     
    whizzo, Mar 22, 2009
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    Well there is a way to just create the ghost drive manually in Command Prompt. It's been a while since I have done this but it involves inserting a DVD into the drive, then coding in Command Prompt. It uses the same code symantec does, just no Graphical user interface so to speak.
     
    FirecatF7, Mar 22, 2009
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  12. MyWK99

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    Recover My Files was successfull, however I have to pay 69.95 to actually get the file. F that, I can see a preview of it, I will just retype the whole thing from what I can see in the preview...
     
    MyWK99, Mar 22, 2009
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    ouch, that really sucks. no freeware versions/alternatives?
     
    whizzo, Mar 22, 2009
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    Not that I know of, I'm searching for some now.
     
    MyWK99, Mar 22, 2009
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    WaR Notebook Virtuoso

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    Honestly because I know how it feels to lose important documents like that, I would just suggest using a torrent to find the program. You would just be borrowing it for a second...
     
    WaR, Mar 22, 2009
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