Got data back
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
at : 11/01/2005 07:52:00 am
at : 11/01/2005 07:52:00 am
Well, as a matter of fact I got back just about every single file, only a small part of the Games partition was unrecoverable but that contained some old Need for Speed 5 files so that doesn't really matter.
I have to say that this little program I've been using for the recovery, GetDataBack, is nothing short of being brilliant. It has helped both me and people close to me out a couple of times when for as far as other programs were considered all hope was lost.
It's costs about one hundred and fourty Euro's which I guess is not too bad considered what it has saved us over time. It beats the price of being awake at night over your lost data, that's for sure.
Sure it takes time to get the job done but when it's a job this fine done I don't really mind. After all what I wanted was my documents back and now I've got them.
Actually I got them back Sunday morning already but due to a slight misunderstanding between me and the RAID configuration tool I lost everything again, meaning I had to do a new recovery from scrap.
The fact that I knew I'd get it all back was a slight comfort at that point but still I was pretty mad at things. It just threw my complete Saturday out of the window and for what? One option that the manual did actually warn about but neglected to tell me when or where to look out for it.
The message was simple: make sure you determine which drive is the source and which is the target, because if you would mix them up you'll overwrite the data disk with ... nothing!
Fair enough, so I proceeded with caution. And just when I was expecting the imminent 'which drive is the source' question that little bugger of a configuration tool told me 'RAID volume successfully created' and I knew that was bad.
Still of course even though you know better you check and double check but in the end, just like when dropping a sandwich with butter it always falls top down on the floor, all data had gone in a split second and I was just about back where I started.
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