[quote=“Dr.Stevil”"]
I use mozilla thunderbird as a mail client on my home PC. Last night, after having some really goofy stuff happening to my computer, I decided to re-format. I used a mozilla backup utility to backup my Thunderbird emails/account settings/ect aswell as all my firefox bookmarks/settings/ect for an easy re-install (I’ve used it dozens of times without a problem).
well, my main HDD was split into 2 partitions, 100 GB and 80GB… I decided that I didn’t need all that space on the C: drive, so I deleted both and resized C: to about 70GB and used the rest of the space on the D: drive. (did a “quick format” to both BTW)
When I finally re-installed windows and got everything back up and running, I realized that my thunderbird backup file was actually saved to the my documents folder, not to the G: drive where the Firefox backup was and it’s obvously long gone now.
I downloaded a little freeware file restore program, but when I search drive C: or D: it doesn’t give me any kind of listing for any files I can un-delete. Likewise, I tried looking on E: F: and G: for an older backup that I’ve done (I usually re-format once every few months) but no luck with the exception of 2 firefox backups.
Can you reccomend me a way to get this back? Or any software I could use? I have alot of stuff in my email that I really don’t want to loose (moonlighting projects and contacts most importantly). The really shitty part about it is that I have gmail setup to delete emails once they’re downloaded via thunderbird.
fuck
-steve :tdown::tdown::tdown::mad::mad::ohnoes:
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stop now. unplug your drive and pm me. reinstalling windows will not necessarily destroy files.
[quote=“boxxa,post:2,topic:32254"”]
For $20 bucks I can run it through nCase, the FBI forensic problem but a specific file is going to be hard to find after you installed a new operating system and write to the drive.
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first of all. its not the fbi forensic program, its spelled EnCase and i happen to be certified to use it. who are you and why do you have a copy of encase?
[quote=“boxxa,post:2,topic:32254"”]
Once you install over it, its almost guaranteed to be gone.
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wrong.
[quote=“Dr.Stevil,post:3,topic:32254"”]
damnit… I figured I’d get a response like that.
I’m just wondering why it’s not showing any files for the d: drive though. Was it because I deleted the partitions and re-created them? I may take you up on that man. I’ll get back to ya about it.
I’m such a tool…
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once you change the file system of a physical device you change the MFT, which is where … never mind. ya. you messed with the drive = your files are “lost”… think about it this way. you are in a library, and you take a card out of the card catalogue system… it will be a little hard to find the book, but its still there.
[quote=“boxxa,post:4,topic:32254"”]
Dont write anything to a drive. If you deleted the partition ,you might be able to rebuild the drives files.
Once you start to write a file on the drive, you start to lower the chances of saving anything.
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true
[quote=“Dr.Stevil,post:6,topic:32254"”]
thanks man… I’m running this now (TestDisk Download - CGSecurity) in hopes that it’ll find it. If not, I’ll be pm’ing you
thanks again
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STOP NOW. if you care about your data. dont run anything on this drive.
