sigh - lost everything on my laptop...

[sovietsong]

just had to reboot my stupid laptop and lost everything I had, photos, all my poker programs including PT3, HEM, the applications themselves and obv a bag full of porn.  what a nightmare! 

i also deleted lots of emails the other day, which will have all my receipts for PT etc so if i want to re-download them i will have to pay again!  FML

[Indestructable]

No that is a bad beat. UL 

[sovietsong]

No that is a bad beat. UL 

all jokes aside i've lost loads of photos that i didnt back up!  first job tomorrow - external hardrive.

[Indestructable]

Thats a definite, they don't cost much and great for keeping all your photos and music on.

[gatso]

can't you just do one of those restore thingies that people are always on about? I've never needed one but they seem to get everything back

[sovietsong]

can't you just do one of those restore thingies that people are always on about? I've never needed one but they seem to get everything back

it seems like i had some serious issues lots of viruses, one of them shut down the antivirus stuff on my system and also blocked ad-aware.  I couldnt get signed on at all so had to use the restore disc which deleted everything.  I have two drives on my lappy but like a fool i saved everything in C:/ which has foooed it for me!

[Scottish Dave]

Thats a definite, they don't cost much and great for keeping all your photos and music on.

If you try ebuyer.com, you'll get a 640Gb one for about £60!

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/149453

To give you an understanding this will store 900+ Full Movie's, or 100,000+ Songs, or 1,000,000+ Pictures!

So basically this will do you for Life!



For Power Downloaders they also have a 1 Tb Hard Drive for £70

[G1BTW]

There are probably loads of files still 'there' even though it looks like they're all wiped. You can use loads of free software for recovering them, like

http://www.winundelete.com/

How much you get back depends on how much activity you have on that drive after the 'delete'

[sovietsong]

There are probably loads of files still 'there' even though it looks like they're all wiped. You can use loads of free software for recovering them, like

http://www.winundelete.com/

How much you get back depends on how much activity you have on that drive after the 'delete'

do you know if you can find specific files as if i restore i will just bring back all the issues i had and am happy my laptop works again at a normal speed.

[G1BTW]

There are probably loads of files still 'there' even though it looks like they're all wiped. You can use loads of free software for recovering them, like

http://www.winundelete.com/

How much you get back depends on how much activity you have on that drive after the 'delete'

do you know if you can find specific files as if i restore i will just bring back all the issues i had and am happy my laptop works again at a normal speed.

Yer, most of these undelete programs do a scan, then give you a list of recoverable individual files, their quality, and you just click 'repair' or suchlike and it brings them back.
Pictures and documents won't harbour the virus, you may be able to get email archives back too and there are a few techniques for restoring them into a new Outlook setup once you have the repairs done.
Avoid restore though yer, you're right. Sounds like you got hardcore spyware, it will have latent copies of bits of itself left around the place, to bring itself back to life once you have thought you killed it, like some digital mimetic polyalloy terminator baddie.

[sovietsong]

There are probably loads of files still 'there' even though it looks like they're all wiped. You can use loads of free software for recovering them, like

http://www.winundelete.com/

How much you get back depends on how much activity you have on that drive after the 'delete'

do you know if you can find specific files as if i restore i will just bring back all the issues i had and am happy my laptop works again at a normal speed.

Yer, most of these undelete programs do a scan, then give you a list of recoverable individual files, their quality, and you just click 'repair' or suchlike and it brings them back.
Pictures and documents won't harbour the virus, you may be able to get email archives back too and there are a few techniques for restoring them into a new Outlook setup once you have the repairs done.
Avoid restore though yer, you're right. Sounds like you got hardcore spyware, it will have latent copies of bits of itself left around the place, to bring itself back to life once you have thought you killed it, like some digital mimetic polyalloy terminator baddie.

LOL - thanks for that mate, i will have a look into it and see if i can find the photos, we still have some on the camera but would be nice to get some of the ones of the breakfasts i made for the blonde rate my fry up thread!!

[Swordpoker]

Think I'll do a back up.

[sovietsong]

Think I'll do a back up.

lol!

[thetank]

The bird has a Mac with one of those time machine things.

She sets it to automatically back up all her guff every day. It's pretty cool coz she can restore her computer to any position it was in the last month or so. Useful for the habitual fiddler.