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I think I am going to kill myself...

GasX

GasX

Lifer
I have two PCs. My fiance, who is starting up a new company, was using the older one when there was a catastrophic HDD failure on the main storage drive that lost a lot of files. Most of hers were recovered, but some important ones were lost as well as my entire MP3 collection... (there are threads here on that issue).

After this disaster, I gave her my Uber box (AKA PC from Hell). Yesterday, it started spontaneously rebooting. I did the RPC fix, updated WinXP pro, updatedg AVG, ran Spy Bot and Ad Aware. Unfortunately, either it wasn't the RPC problem or one of the reboots happened at the wrong time and the ntfs.sys file got fvcked up... 😡

So, this morning, I got up and tried to repair the problem to no avail. The repair install simply would not finish, so I had to do a clean install, which I did without reformatting. Eventually, it completes and I re-establish the user profiles etc. Unfortunately Office was on the C drive and I reinstalled it bad fvcking move The pst files are no longer available and although I backed up all the critical files before the install, I failed to back-up Outlook and a crapload of stuff was lost.

Please post either you condolences or your miraculous advice for getting out of this mess.

Thank you.
 
since the drive has been written to already, its going to be difficult to get anything else of it. not impossible, but damn near. the only advice i can give, is that hindsight is 20/20 and you should invest time in developing a backup strategy that will keep this from happing again.

hdds now days are pretty cheap so you could easily setup a mirror drive. or get more creative and use a backup fileserver solution with rotating backups <-- solution I use. the price of a hdd and cheap pc (compgeeks for 50.00) is far cheaper than the cost of having to recover files like that...not to mention I can sleep better at night knowing that I would have to have 3 physical failures to lose all my data. I too learned this the hard way many moons ago.

Hope all works out, and I know my advice wont get your data back now, but at least you'll be better prepared next time.
 
same problem with me and selling my laptop, i backed everything up except for my outlook pst file, am eating crow every day for the past two weeks now.
 
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