I poked around the web and found some software which said "try the demo, it will tell you what can be recovered. if it works, pay for the software and recover the data." sounds like a good business model.
anyway, it did extract just about everything, but the directory tree was trashed,
so I have 140+ "lost folders", files intact but with no name or links, to sort through before everything is back in order. so the software worked, and was worth the $$ to me: Stellar Pheonix NTFS I'm sure there are other solutions out there, but this one worked for me and goes in my tool kit. and I'll be looking into the shadowing recommended here, as well as doing a full backup. 73 paul At 05:10 PM 2/1/2006, Robert McGwier wrote:
Well I have returned home to a couple of disasters. I downloaded email, etc. on Monday morning at 1:30 AM when I returned home. My antivirus service updated the engine and asked me to reboot. I did and went to bed. I got up the next day and Read Error Ctrl-Alt-Del and that is all it will do. I had a day long presentation at Rutgers yesterday and this morning I attempted install the drive on another machine. It is hopelessly gone. I have lost about two months stuff plus/minus. I got lazy about the beginning of my trip to Germany and then I had the business trip to Reno, etc. etc. I just did not do the backups I was supposed to do for six weeks and got bit. If you have sent me email in the past two weeks, consider it lost. It is possible that I may eventually get enough stuff off this drive to find some of it useful but I am in reconstruction mode. Bob _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
