Well, first you have to determine what caused the problem eg. Disk crash,
Virus, idiot turning off PC when middle of application , etc..
It would all depend on how many *.chk files are there.
If less then 30 then view some of them to see what the contents are and I
find that alot of the 4096 byte files are usually crap anyway.
If there is a file that's recognised then rename it.
Over 30 files is a major hassle.. good luck..
PS: It's amazing when people take to time to backup often AFTER something
disasterous happens....... ;-)
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
Citadel Computer Systems P/L
http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Des Wass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 24 May 2000 12:39 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [SLUG] OT: HDD Salvage
Importance: High
A friend of mine has a disk which had some problems. He rand scandisk over
it to see if would fix the problem but it didn't (suprise). All the data has
now been renamed fil00000.chk, fil00001.chk, etc.
As it turns out, this HDD has his entire thesis on it and the last 5 years
of uni. Backups don't exist.
Can anyone recommend a data-recovery surgeon? I have heard of a place in
North Sydney called Dr Disk.
Anyone had any experience here at all?
Thanks,
Des.
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