Documents lost completly! Happened to anyone else?

[hovenas]

I used diskmaster2000 from IBM to copy over the entire WinME I had on an older drive to a new RAID IBM setup. Somewhere along the way, all my documents got lost (over 100mb of work. ARRRGH, I'm an idiot for not using my ZIP before Copy) on both original drive and new.
What's up with that? Does anyone out there share similar xperience?

 

[cavingjan]

I'm very religious about that type of thing. You don't have your old drive anymore? I don't touch the old drive for at least two weeks to determine that I have everything off of it that I'm going to want. In fact I still haven't done anything with my drive I replaced last October even though I need another drive in another system.

 

[hovenas]

The thing is that the old drive was sold to a friend and had to be installed in order for the system to work. The partition where WinMe resided is gone, could the OS have hid the files somewhere?

 

[medic]

Run this on your computer and take it to your friends in the hope you can save something thats not overwritten yet.

Directory Snoop-Recovery tool (fully functional shareware)

 

[hovenas]

Thanx CRV, what happened? Everything else was there, I even installed the old one before wiping the partition to install his Win98, and the doc's were gone in both places!!! Is this a safety thing on Microsoft's behalf so that sensitive documents won't be read by others? Why does it wipe it on both original HDD and new HDD? Beats me...

 

[medic]

Very odd..
You didn't have them encrypted or attributes set to hidden?

Maybe fire an email to IBM about a possible bug in Diskmaster2000..

Hope you find something!

(Could try Lost and Found by Powerquest, but it costs $)

 

[hovenas]

I think I will mail IBM.
What do you consider the chances of salvaging my files?
I copied the entire ME to a depot area on my new HDD setup, should be identical to the one on his drive, which any case no longer exists since Win98 now resides on that partition.
I would love my documents folder, 3 years at law-school, all work on the drive

 

[medic]

It's very hard to say..if by chance the files haven't been overwritten then you may find some of them.
The most important thing though is to try to avoid using the computer until you can run those programs.

 

[hovenas]

Thanx for the support, alas, prayers seem like the only REAL solution. I will confine myself to sack and ash....