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greycorsa
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Registered: 12th Jan 03
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4th Nov 03 at 22:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i just deleted all my mp3's by accident! is there anyway i can get it back to how it was 5 mins ago?!?!?!? HELP PLZ!
greycorsa
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4th Nov 03 at 22:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
tried system restore. it wont do.

not in recycle bin as i have a habbit of duin shift+delete. gets rid of it immediately
dan_sri
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4th Nov 03 at 22:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
why wont system restore work?
greycorsa
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4th Nov 03 at 22:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
dont know. thers no restore points according to it
dan_sri
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4th Nov 03 at 22:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
it should make them autoaticly as far as i know when ever a major change is made, go back a month or something?
greycorsa
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4th Nov 03 at 22:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
thers no restore points. what shal i do? change the date back? that wont do nothin will it?
dan_sri
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4th Nov 03 at 22:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
not if theres no points saved, i wouldnt think there is anything you could do other wise unless youve got em all saved to cd?
Trotty
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4th Nov 03 at 22:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Depending on how computer literate you are, there's a program called R-Disk which can do a low level scan on the disk and recover data most of the time, even after several formats.

Can send it your way if you want?
greycorsa
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4th Nov 03 at 22:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ive got most of em saved to CD. just the recent ones. like last 3 months worth. not many, about 50 - 60 mp3s lost.
greycorsa
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4th Nov 03 at 22:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
how big is that R-disk program m8?
Richie
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4th Nov 03 at 23:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Only way to permanently get rid of stuff is by doing a low level format (zero fill)
John
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5th Nov 03 at 00:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
If anyone ever wants to get rid of anythin and leave almost zero chnace of gettin it back dl autoclave. Even a low level format doesn't irreversibly get rid of everything.
Richie
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5th Nov 03 at 00:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
A zero fill does, replaces everything with zero's.

[Edited on 05-11-2003 by AustinPXX]
John
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5th Nov 03 at 01:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Thats not totally erased. It is for most purposes but its possible to get back data from many previous writes. The head never writes exactly the same place. U would hav to use electron microscopy but.
Richie
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5th Nov 03 at 01:53   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
If the head never writes in exactly the same place then you would have double the storage capacity? Your incorrect in what you say there.

Taken directly from Seagate:

Zero Filling an ATA (IDE) Drive destroys 100% of the data on the drive. Make sure the drive is completely backed up before proceeding.
Richie
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5th Nov 03 at 01:56   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Actually, you are partly correct. There is some of the previous magnetic domain left after a zero fill, about 2 or 3 zero fills would permanently get rid of everything.

And anyway to read stuff off whats left of the partial magnetic domains would cost quite a bit, i would imagine only the police ect had access to that kind of equipment.
John
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5th Nov 03 at 02:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I can't be bothered finding the sites but do a bit of research and u will find an explanation of it. It wouldn't double the storage capacity. Nobody knows where exactly it will land. I'm not disputing the fact it would cost quite a bit becasue it would, i was just saying. I've not got anythin to hand to back up sayin the seagate site is wrong but it is. They always give warnings like that. Even when you only do a quick format which obviously doesn't wipe any data.
Icy
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Registered: 31st Jan 01
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5th Nov 03 at 02:14   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
jus dl em again

 
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