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data recovery

  • 20-10-2010 12:31am
    #1
    Es Mono
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭


    My laptop was left into pc world for health check. service docket was signed. when i picked it up all my data was lost. anyone got any ideas about how i can get my data back?


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  • #2
    Lu Tze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭Lu Tze


    What did they do?


  • #3
    Es Mono
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Es Mono


    Not sure exactly, i left it in for a health check. they found a fault with something else and sent it off for repair. the guy in the store told me that my stuff would have been shredded and it could not be retreived. is this true or is there a way i could get my photos back?


  • #4
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    Es Mono wrote: »
    My laptop was left into pc world for health check. service docket was signed. when i picked it up all my data was lost. anyone got any ideas about how i can get my data back?

    theres where you went wrong, truth be told


  • #5
    Lu Tze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭Lu Tze


    Es Mono wrote: »
    Not sure exactly, i left it in for a health check. they found a fault with something else and sent it off for repair. the guy in the store told me that my stuff would have been shredded and it could not be retreived. is this true or is there a way i could get my photos back?

    If they didnt tell you before hand that the data would be lost i reckon you should take it back in to them and ask them to pay for a data recovery specialist. Dont go copying or saving any new files to the hard drive in the meantime though.

    Seems odd that they wouldnt clone the drive before carrying out any work on it. Maybe if you hang on until morning somebody here might have been in this situation before and could advise?


  • #6
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    You could post in the Currys/PC World forum (http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1333). Declan might be able to help you out. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but if the hard drive was destroyed or damaged then you might not be able to get the data back. Even if it wasn't you might still not get any or much data back.

    I hate threads like this, makes me realise how crap I am at backing up.


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  • #7
    Lu Tze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭Lu Tze


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    You could post in the Currys/PC World forum (http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1333). Declan might be able to help you out. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but if the hard drive was destroyed or damaged then you might not be able to get the data back. Even if it wasn't you might still not get any or much data back.

    I hate threads like this, makes me realise how crap I am at backing up.

    Excellent suggestion - Declan seems to act directly on anything brought to him here, after reading through a few of the threads over the last few weeks i would be more likely to buy from currys than i was before (if i was still in ireland).

    Yeah, these kind of threads normally remind me to back up anything important - but a couple of weeks on that goes out the window again.


  • #8
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Lu Tze wrote: »
    Yeah, these kind of threads normally remind me to back up anything important - but a couple of weeks on that goes out the window again.

    Ha ha. Same here. I wouldn't mind but I nearly lost a college project a few years back. It took me ages to get it back and even then it was messed up and I had to fix a load of code in it just to get back to where I was.


  • #9
    Es Mono
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Es Mono


    Thanks for the suggestions. I have posted it to that forum. Hopefully i will get something back.:)


  • #10
    Lu Tze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭Lu Tze


    Best of luck with it, dont get your hopes up too high though as it may be irretrievable :(


  • #11
    karl bracken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭karl bracken


    use this its free easy to use and recovered stuff loads of times for me

    http://download.cnet.com/File-Scavenger-Data-Recovery-Utility/3000-2094_4-10028488.html

    theres also a pro version


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  • #12
    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    karl bracken wrote: »
    use this its free easy to use and recovered stuff loads of times for me

    http://download.cnet.com/File-Scavenger-Data-Recovery-Utility/3000-2094_4-10028488.html

    theres also a pro version

    Hi,

    Thanks for all your help in resolving this matter.

    Sincerely,
    2010

    :pac:


  • #13
    duckysauce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭duckysauce


    very prompt service :)


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