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Answer» I was having problems with my computer crashing all the time so I called HP Technical Support. They decided the best thing to do would be to do a full system recovery. As my files were all backed up with McAfee I thought that would be fine. But it turns out McAfee never backed any files up like it was supposed to. tell me if it's possible.It's "possible" but very unlikely that you'll be able to recover them. Try Quantos's suggestion.An excellent time to seriously consider a good solid backup strategy... Quote from: Quantos on May 08, 2010, 09:21:21 AM You could try Piriform Recuva, the odds are stacking up against you each time you use the computer though. Recuva will work better if you don't recover the data to the same drive. I've been running the program the last couple of days and have recovered some of my files, although not all. I got some of the ones I wanted though so thank you Qantos Patio, I was using McAfee and thought that they would do the backup but a friend I was talking to had the same problem as me. I unfortunately don't have the money at the moment for an external hard drive or a decent online backup otherwise I would have done that already. Quote from: mle on May 10, 2010, 12:46:17 PM I unfortunately don't have the money at the moment for an external hard drive or a decent online backup otherwise I would have done that already. Exactly my situation some years ago. I QUICKLY learned that the source code for about 40 of my programs that took three years to write was worth more then a small hard drive. I imagine the same sort of thing goes for most of the stuff people make themselves- their documents aren't just files, but they represent hours of effort. You're not backing up files- you're backing up effort. If you just bite your lip and hope that drives won't fail, that you won't accidentally delete files, that a program won't delete your files, etc, you are way too susceptible to murphy's law then what should be considered comfortable. Besides, you don't necessarily need an external drive- CD-R's are rather cheap, and DVD-R's and DVD-RW's can be used as well, depending on how much you need to back up. Remember, it's not about backing up any of the programs you have installed, or your system configuration- that type of stuff usually only takes a few minutes to set back up if you have to reinstall- it's the major time investments like you're documents that are important.As BC stated there is no excuse... I personally use Acronis True Image but it is not Free... However Macrium Reflect is.... My Review... Quote from: patio on May 09, 2010, 08:01:20 AM An excellent time to seriously consider a good solid backup strategy...carbonite, and idrive to name a couple. Maybe invest in an external HDD be ready to pay sum money to get the data back. find someone who does ferensics and they will be able to retrive lost info |
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