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Solve : Lost or deleted docs - "shadows?"? |
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Answer» Lost .docs due to a major computer crash (naturally only the most important ones ). Have tried EVERY conceivable search/retrieval method without success - save for trying under DOS. Have read that a "shadow/ghost" of everything ever created REMAINS on the hard drive in DOS -- unsure whether this is correct? If it is correct then could someone please help this new chum out with info on where/how to locate such "shadow/ghost" files in DOS. Have tried every conceivable search/retrieval method without success - save for trying under DOS. Having tried all of that I reckon you might have to consider some REAL heavy forensic type software, very good and v-e-r-y expensive. You don't give us an inkling as to what OS you were/are using but assume that it's XP in either form and that your file SYSTEM was/is NTFS which NO Dos version will recognise. Your files will still be on your hdd partition unless they have been overwritten during your recovery process, whatever that was (no info given), but looks likely you have lost the Master File Table and/or some such other index. Dos can run a utility named Undelete.exe but is only useful in a FAT file system. Undelete.exe is not available in XP, even in the XP Dos emulator. Sorry, my knowledge level means that I can't be of help to you, I hope someone more knowledgeable picks up the thread.. Good luck |
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