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Originally Posted by cd34
I hope you get your files back, but, time machine has now saved me twice.
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Glad to hear your problem was solved so easily. That's why I was preparing this external drive. Unfortunately this is a case where Time Machine won't be of any use since this was an external hard drive used for backups and archiving, not an internal drive with Time Machine keeping it all safely backed up.
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Originally Posted by MeatPounder
I'm amazed how many windows users have full shadow copy turned off
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I'm amazed how many people use Windows.*
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Originally Posted by Damian
Data Rescue 2 is meant to be good. Or, you just use the back up of the data you lost. You *do* have that backed up right?
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Not all of it. Some is duplicated on my other external hard drives, and in most cases the originals will be on one of my notebook computers, but since the accidentally-formatted drive was used to hold backups of data including some archives, it may have had some data that doesn't exist anywhere else.
At this point I'm looking to scan the drive and see exactly what's on it that I'd want to recover. Some of what's on there I don't really need to recover if I have good copies somewhere else. But I think there are some things on there I'd like to get back.
ProSoft sent me the download link for the Data Rescue II demo so I'll be running that this morning. Hopefully it'll show me what it could recover if I had the full version and I can see what's still there.
* I say this as someone who just spent days upgrading and tweaking a Toshiba notebook running Windows XP. I've used both, but I only use Windows when I absolutely have no other choice or want to see check out a site using it.