Data recovery - Saxperience

Gabbastard · 1st November 2014, 10:24

Need some help, PC boffins.

I used a recovery program on my PC a good while ago to get back deleted uni work. Now I need to try and recover documents from the mrs' grandad's laptop, mostly legal and financial stuff as he went mental with a UTI and deleted a load of stuff lol. However, I was thinking that installing the recovery prog to his laptop will maybe overwrite what we're trying to recover, so is there a way to install the recovery prog to my machine and run it on his drives?

Also, any recommendations on which prog to use? Been that long I cant remember what I used.

Advice much appreciated. Cheers!

Giraffe · 1st November 2014, 13:24

I can't remember the tech terms but surely you can plug his drives in your machine as slaves and run the software from your machine that way? I did it many moons ago and it worked sort of I think.

Alex^p · 1st November 2014, 13:36

I'd use something like this http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/compon...28753-pdt.html
(You'd need to check his drive would fit tho) with this https://www.piriform.com/recuva

Mickswan · 1st November 2014, 14:00

You can plug his hard drive to your of and use it as a slave drive. Varies from drive to drive, but there's a good tutorial on youtube.

Ross^p · 1st November 2014, 17:00

most programs designed to recover data will run in standalone mode where it can run from a USB stick or somesuch, so nothing needs to be written to the disk you're recovering from.

Brettles1986 · 1st November 2014, 20:45

You're all correct pretty much. Data is my actually deleted straight away, the portion of disk is just marked to be used again.

I would slave it to another computer personally as a preventative measure.

Ross^p · 1st November 2014, 22:18

I know I'm correct. I've been working in IT for ... A little while

chompy · 3rd November 2014, 08:25

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Originally Posted by Ross

I know I'm correct. I've been working in IT for ... A little while

You're wrong

Ross^p · 3rd November 2014, 08:59

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Originally Posted by chompy

You're wrong

I was wrong back in 1996 I think (somewhere round there). But it's rare.

Brettles1986 · 3rd November 2014, 13:22

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Originally Posted by Ross

I know I'm correct. I've been working in IT for ... A little while

Not sure you could user the word "work" tbh. Attend is probably more apt.

chompy · 3rd November 2014, 14:30

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Originally Posted by Brettles1986

Not sure you could user the word "work" tbh. Attend is probably more apt.

Certianly more apt. for you.

"i'll just pm chompy, he'll do all my work for me"

Brettles1986 · 3rd November 2014, 14:31

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Originally Posted by chompy

Certianly more apt. for you.

"i'll just pm chompy, he'll do all my work for me"

Fuck off, I hassled you twice and still I sorted it myself you useless bastard

chompy · 3rd November 2014, 15:02

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Originally Posted by Brettles1986

Fuck off, I hassled you twice and still I sorted it myself you useless bastard

If only I hadn't deleted they PMs

Brettles1986 · 3rd November 2014, 15:24

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Originally Posted by chompy

If only I hadn't deleted they PMs

I have them!

What you need?

marshallbrown · 15th January 2019, 12:13

I don't know much about it but there is maybe software through which you can recover the deleted data.

Manu · 21st January 2019, 18:29

Dude bumps 5 year old thread, to say he doesn't know anything.

MartinObviously · 21st January 2019, 21:54

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Originally Posted by Manu

Dude bumps 5 year old thread, to say he doesn't know anything.

What's your point m9

U WANTIN BACKED UP, I'LL BACK YOU UP!

Manu · 22nd January 2019, 11:41

There is no point, I was merely looking at the funny. Other than that I'm good, I have 4 separate hard drives backing up about 2.5 Tb. Data recovery is irrelevant in my house.

HELL YEAH CAPS LOCK M7