Re: Data Recovery Service

Andy Civil <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.ottawa.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm slightly surprised that no one has mentioned this:
http://linuxappfinder.com/package/photorec
The only problem is that wherever you run it from, you have to have somewhere to 
save the found files TO. That might require some Garth-intervention. The 
wikipedia site claims that it works "with" vista:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoRec
Note that despite the name, it finds other document types too. I guess he first 
wrote it to fish deleted photos off memory cards.

It's also completely indiscriminate, and will find everything.

-- 
Andy



Garth Boyd wrote:
> The only other reply I have received is on list for Tunstall & Tunstall 
> at http://www.datarecoveryservices.com.
> 
> So if you have heard something different then I too would like to hear it.
> 
> Thanks
> -garth
> 
> 
> Jacques B. wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Garth Boyd <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the very kind offer but its:
>>>
>>> - not my disk. It belongs to an acquaintance and would rather not get
>>> involved with the data, or risk.
>>> - Its got vista (eeeewwwww!!!!)
>>> - then there is the time factor. If it was mine I would spend the 
>>> time but
>>> right now I have family considerations at the moment to spend on someone
>>> else's drive.
>>>
>>>
>>> Again, thanks for the kind offer.
>>>
>>> G
>>
>> You're welcome.  I understand.  I remember a co-worker of mine getting
>> high speed at home and was going to pay the cable company for the
>> install.  I told him don't bother, I'd do it figuring it would be a
>> five minute favour.  Well his computer was running at a snail's pace
>> (over 5 minutes just to boot) because of P2P software that littered it
>> with adware/spyware.  I ended up doing a complete re-install of the PC
>> after backing up whatever data was important and then getting their
>> Internet working.  A 5 minute favour turned into a 3-4 hour favour.
>> Someone replied to me offlist about a company in Nepean I believe that
>> did a 20gb recovery job (copying data to a DVD) for $60.  That's more
>> than reasonable for a home data recovery scenario.  Perhaps they've
>> already passed on that info to you off list.
>>
>> Jacques B.
> 

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