[data recovery] Need help ASAP!

[bazookaman]

Data Rescue is the ticket.

[mattkime]

i THINK TimeMachine might help you out even if you haven't been using it. worth trying.

[Bo]

MartyStickle wrote:
Time Machine? Maybe from an hour previous???

We've been begging for external drives and TM for months and those in charge have been dragging their feet. This could and should have been a non-issue. Very frustrating!!!

lafinfil wrote:
Another Data Rescue ++

It will take a long time so you need to be patient. It has to inventory the disk and find recoverable files. IIRC I had to let it run all evening & overnight (12+ hours) You will also need an external drive with enough free space to recover files to.

Duly noted...she might have to start it and I'll take over once I am in the office.

[Bo]

mattkime wrote:
i THINK TimeMachine might help you out even if you haven't been using it. worth trying.

TM has not been enabled on her machine nor has an external drive been connected...are you saying that there might be something we can still use it for in this situation? Intrigued...

[lafinfil]

Bo wrote:
[quote=MartyStickle]
Time Machine? Maybe from an hour previous???

We've been begging for external drives and TM for months and those in charge have been dragging their feet. This could and should have been a non-issue. Very frustrating!!!

lafinfil wrote:
Another Data Rescue ++

It will take a long time so you need to be patient. It has to inventory the disk and find recoverable files. IIRC I had to let it run all evening & overnight (12+ hours) You will also need an external drive with enough free space to recover files to.

Duly noted...she might have to start it and I'll take over once I am in the office.
I haven't used the latest version, but in the version I did use there was an option to save a file that is a map of the drive. IIRC you could stop the scan if needed and save the file, allowing you to restart the scan without losing the files you have already mapped.

[Bo]

Thanks to everyone for the quick help! She is downloading DR3 and will give it a shot. I am not at the office but will keep you posted on the success as I hear anything or when I get in to look at her machine on Monday.

[mattkime]

just pop open time machine and see what it does. i think i saved a file for someone with this method recently.

no risk, just try it and report back.

[Lew Zealand]

Data Rescue saved my bacon when I erased a drive I'd recently backed up only to find the backup failed. Erase wasn't secure erase, of course. Downloaded DR and it recovered every file on the entire HD. Whew!

Goooooo Data Rescue!

[space-time]

Bo wrote:
[quote=mattkime]
i THINK TimeMachine might help you out even if you haven't been using it. worth trying.

TM has not been enabled on her machine nor has an external drive been connected...are you saying that there might be something we can still use it for in this situation? Intrigued...
I think matt was talking about a real time machine, you know, like in SciFi movies.

[cbelt3]

Good luck, been there. I once justified backuP drives after a power surge cost my grouP 4 days work.