Re: recover data from formated drive?

2005-02-11 Thread Frank Mamone
Can you share the companies name so we don't use it? - Frank On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:42:08 -0600, Phill B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our hosting company loged into the server and accidently fired off a > script that formated the drive. They also forgot to set up the server > for daily backups.

Re: recover data from formated drive?

2005-02-10 Thread Phill B
Even worse is that SOP requires the script to be placed in the startup folder for an admin account. The same account that the idiot used to log in with. :-| On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:48:56 -0600, Dawson, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeez. Who in the world would be silly enough to write a sc

RE: recover data from formated drive?

2005-02-10 Thread Dawson, Michael
:42 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: recover data from formated drive? Our hosting company loged into the server and accidently fired off a script that formated the drive. They also forgot to set up the server for daily backups. :-| I really hate them right now

Re: recover data from formated drive?

2005-02-10 Thread Phill B
Our hosting company loged into the server and accidently fired off a script that formated the drive. They also forgot to set up the server for daily backups. :-| I really hate them right now. On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:12:07 -0600, Dawson, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We had the same issue la

Re: recover data from formated drive?

2005-02-10 Thread Jim Davis
>If a drive was formated and then had a couple files put on it, could >it still have pre-formated files recovered? >-- >Phillip B. It depends a lot of the type of format. A "quick" format in Windows just deletes the file allocation table (the "table of contents") and can usually be recovered d

RE: recover data from formated drive?

2005-02-10 Thread Dawson, Michael
We had the same issue last year. It was a disaster created by an inept sys admin. "I thought there was a backup tape." ;-) We sent it to Ontrack (http://www.ontrack.com/) and they were able to recover about 25% of our data. Our main problem was the drive went through three different RAID array

Re: recover data from formated drive?

2005-02-10 Thread Kevin Graeme
Yes. On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:59:15 -0600, Phill B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If a drive was formated and then had a couple files put on it, could > it still have pre-formated files recovered? > -- > Phillip B. > > ~| Find out