# O S!\*t
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/o-s-t/42951
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [February 4, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/o-s-t/42951 "2008-02-04T23:26:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@greenbull](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/greenbull)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/o-s-t/42951/1 "2008-02-04T23:26:31Z")
So im supposed to be fixing a laptop for a girl at work. Now i have had no problems in the past getting trojans and worms off of PC’s using simple software and tracking files down. But this time i was out of luck. So my stupid ass does not back up any files (her main concern was pictures). I toss in a windows CD to run the repair console. Well i somehow miss the moment it mentions to hit F2 to go to the repair console and it begins a fully automated install. Quick format blah blah. So my question is, is there ANY way i can get ANY of the files back? Have the drive imaged? Or what? Im at a complete loss and really don’t want to have to tell this girl i lost all of her pictures. i have no problem doing this to one of my computers but it is not a good feeling to lose all of some other person’s data.
Thanks for any help…
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### Author:  [@Violator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Violator)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/o-s-t/42951/2 "2008-02-05T00:09:08Z")
yes, find a Undelete or recovery program.
Dont do anything else with the drive. Most of the data is still there but as soon as you write to the drive, you damage/destroy it.
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### Author:  [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2008, 1:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/o-s-t/42951/3 "2008-02-05T01:13:34Z")
greeenbull…whats up dudeeee… i know who you are now…
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/o-s-t/42951/4 "2008-02-05T04:31:51Z")
so is XP installed now? or nothing is on the drive?
PM Crazyjon
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### Author:  [@9c1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9c1)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2008, 5:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/o-s-t/42951/5 "2008-02-05T05:33:00Z")
I’ve used EasyRecovery Pro in situations similar to that and it helped me out.
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### Author:  [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2008, 5:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/o-s-t/42951/6 "2008-02-05T05:53:44Z")
if you really care about the drive. send it to me. turn off the laptop. any access to the drive directly will effect the data.
edit:
and please dont pull the amature recovery tools is the answer here. :ham2:
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### Author:  [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2008, 6:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/o-s-t/42951/7 "2008-02-05T06:06:44Z")
^^^
The safest answer is the above.
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### Author:  [@zwarbyt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/zwarbyt)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2008, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/o-s-t/42951/8 "2008-02-05T06:36:40Z")
dumbass, throw lighter fluid on it and burn it up, tell that slut some one hacked it so bad the hard drive exploded and nearly burned your house down
she’ll feel bad for you
oh and make sure to say the hackers were from iraq, and gay, and black… and had aids
works every time
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### Author:  [@greenbull](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/greenbull)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2008, 7:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/o-s-t/42951/9 "2008-02-05T07:37:42Z")
> [@Willybeen](#):
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> greeenbull…whats up dudeeee… i know who you are now…
lol hi will
> [@zwarbyt](#):
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> dumbass, throw lighter fluid on it and burn it up, tell that slut some one hacked it so bad the hard drive exploded and nearly burned your house down
>
> she’ll feel bad for you
>
> oh and make sure to say the hackers were from iraq, and gay, and black… and had aids
>
> works every time
im sure that saying they were black would not make the situation any better. but thanks for the kind words.
> [@Dr.Stevil](#):
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> so is XP installed now? or nothing is on the drive?
>
> PM Crazyjon
xp is now installed
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### Author:  [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2008, 8:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/o-s-t/42951/10 "2008-02-05T08:08:17Z")
> [@greenbull](#):
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> im sure that saying they were black would not make the situation any better. but thanks for the kind words.
You also have to hit on the point that they were smelly too.
Did you PM the resident drive specialist yet? Because he knows stuff, leet haxory stuff.
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### Author:  [@greenbull](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/greenbull)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2008, 10:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/o-s-t/42951/11 "2008-02-05T10:34:38Z")
yea i sent him a PM.
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### Author:  [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/o-s-t/42951/12 "2008-02-05T14:44:51Z")
> [@Locutus](#):
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> if you really care about the drive. send it to me. turn off the laptop. any access to the drive directly will effect the data.
>
> edit:
>
> and please dont pull the amature recovery tools is the answer here. :ham2:
Any luck with that drive I sent you or is it a lost cause?
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### Author:  [@greenbull](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/greenbull)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/o-s-t/42951/13 "2008-02-19T13:33:47Z")
Here is an update. The girl ended up telling me that she didn’t really care everything was gone, but she had me hold on to her computer because she had cancelled her internet as she was getting ready to move. So i thought that i might as well read up on some things. So i read up on some disk imaging softwares and what not but didn’t really want to image the entire drive just to get pictures and a few documents back. So i then found a few softwares that find deleted pictures and the such. I ended up buying an adapter so i could hook the 2.5 laptop drive to my desktop and then downloaded the trial software. Started running it before i left for work. After 30 minutes it had picked through less than 20% of the pictures files on the drive but it was definitely finding a lot of the pictures i thought were lost forever. So hopefully when i go home tonight i’ll be able to restore most of the pictures. I’ll post up what the software is when i get home and how well it did at recovering the pictures. So far so good.