Sad Stories

[Gadiantor]

Here is the saddest news ever.....The comm folks finally figured out that thresholdrpg.com is not a site that I need to do my job and has blocked it...I can still get to threshold-rpg.com, but that doesn't do me any good for the forums

[Katidyd]

OMFG! it happened again!

This time my whole second drive with all the recent Threshold stuff got wiped. Not just logs but histories, events and future plans. The drive just sits there taunting me with unformated messages now.

Is there anyway to recover the files from an unrecognized drive? It wont even show up in Norton's unerase prompt.

[Llywellyn]

There are companies that specialize in data recovery. Not sure it is worth it to you to spend the money for that, but many of these companies can get data back from even burned, mutilated other wise "destroyed" disks.

[Enosekel]

awww man. Well I don't have any advice to give Kati but wow, that really sucks, I'm sorry!

[Aristotle]

Katidyd,

You've got some insane stuff going on with your PC.

I would highly suggest you invest in some offline storage. Perhaps an old HD that you put into an external HD enclosure and then use as an external USB HD or something like that.

[Pyrosama]

I'm not sure if this will help, but my last effort would be to remove the hard drive itself and see if you can't mount it in someone else's computer. If it is an unrecognized drive, your data may still be accessible. Don't give up too early. Call around to some friends or family members with computers who can help you recover if possible.

I had a neighbor who helped me retrieve 'My Documents' folder once (it had two years worth of stuff in it) when my power box shorted and I thought I had lost everything. I was able to mount the drive in his machine and copy my files to a CD.

[Katidyd]

Yeah I should get really big storage drive for backups but where to find a 500 gig drive.....

I found out all the data is still on the drive, only my computer wont recognize the file system. So how would I restore the file system without writing over the data?

The drive was first formated in fat32 for my old computer (win98se), then reformated into nfts and used for storage in my new computer (win2000).

[Thalia]

My computer was very sick, so my husband decided to fix it. He dropped it. Now it needs transplants of vital computer organs.

If you see Thalia now it's cause I braved the MALE room. That's not a place to get mail, it's the icky room that floods where I banish everything male to. It's hot and stinky and home to all the missing socks in the house - all dirty. Oh and they look at me funny (the males, not the socks) cause girls are not supposed to be here.

That's my sad story.