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  • The FBI Can Do It!

    Posted by Zeno Pierre on March 17, 2009 at 1:54 am

    But I was wondering if anybody else knows how to do it.

    I accidently erased my external Iomega hard drive using Disk Utilities.

    Is there any way of reversing my actions?

    How can I spend all moth gathering and down loading hours upon hours of information only to select the wrong drive and erase it!!!

    Is suicide illegal in California?

    Baz Leffler replied 17 years, 1 month ago 5 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Tom Wolsky

    March 17, 2009 at 2:03 am

    I believe it is. California prosecuted a Golden Gate bridge jumper who survived.

    You might try DriveSavers. They really do quite extraordinary work.

    All the best,

    Tom

    Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
    Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

  • Zeno Pierre

    March 17, 2009 at 2:16 am

    Thanks Tom.

  • Zane Barker

    March 17, 2009 at 3:14 am

    As long as you have NOT started putting anything onto the drive then try a program called Data Rescue (If you have written files onto the drive then your chances are slim because you have written over the location where the files were)

    https://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php

    You can download the demo and run it and it will tell you if it can recover anything. If it can you will have to purchase the program.

    You will also need s completely different drive to rescue the files so because you cannot save them back onto the original drive as that would right over the original files.

    There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
    Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

  • Zeno Pierre

    March 17, 2009 at 9:44 am

    Thanks, Zane,

    This is a little more around my price range. DriveSavers is more for the rocket scientist type. ..too pricy for me.

    Thanks!

  • Dave Johnson

    March 17, 2009 at 5:01 pm

    Yes, Drive Savers and the similar companies listed below are typically very expensive so, unless your data is extremely critical, you’re usually better off to either take the best you can get with a software solution (which can fall anywhere within a range between total recovery and no recovery) or accept your loss as the hard-learned reason why you always back up your important data from now on, then go on about the business of rebuilding. Either way, best of luck!

    Data Recovery Labs
    Drive Savers
    ESS Data Recovery
    Salvage Data

  • Baz Leffler

    March 17, 2009 at 11:19 pm

    [Zeno Pierre] “Is suicide illegal in California?”

    I have never spoken to anyone successful at it to know.

    In fact I have never even met a successful suicide bomber.

    Baz

    What would I do without the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!

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