I've lost an important folder...

Easy my UAN forum browsers, hope you are all good.

I have managed to accidently reformat my computer whilst I was a little drunk and forgot to back up one of my vital folders that I use for my documents. I have re installed vista, and I was hoping that you guys could recommend me a particular type of software which you may have used to recover your own files in the past with ease and 100% satisfaction.

Sucks big time, I have 4 hard drives installed and all im tryin to do is get XP and Vista to dual boot and then I managed to go and cock it all up.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Ammo @ Sep 27 2009, 01:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

IF there is a hope in hell...I use WinHex...but having installed files to a formatted hard disk, I am afraid that it is a miniscule hope....

there is no magic for your problem

there are a few utilities out there you can try but none are guaranteed to work 100%


lesson here is "Dont Drink and Format"

thank god its not exe's im trying to recover... i fucking writtern a big ass business plan and fucking other organised shit into one folder now i think i duplicated the folder onto an external hard drive but it didnt seem to copy over my subfolders... i cant even punch my computer to get it back... booooooooooooooooooooooo... will try minipe... i was using getback data but there's so many fucking folders to go through it'll take me a month to go thru it all one by one... i used one ages ago it was as a torrent and it was fkin amazing it restructed the folders list exactly like it would have sat on my computer (getbackdata is showing me every file in its own folder)... computers suck! wheres muddr?

sniper the more im trying the more you post is annoying me lol... u seem to be right on the 100% guarantee that it'll work...

art i looked at winhex and man it looks way to complicated for me to master how to use it... will try a few other programs and then if not ill resort back to it...

my fear now is that the more shit i keep re installing and then downloading at the same time its gonna write over the files that i want... bad times

This wont help you now, but I use Jungle Disk, and Amazon S3 for backing up. Best thing I ever did. I recommend it to anyone. If you guys aren't backing up your shit, Ammo's predicament should be enough of an incentive.

but dude, they can see your information

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Ammo @ Sep 29 2009, 01:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

lol... It's encrypted, They can't. That's the beauty of using JungleDisk to control and encrypt my backup. I'm not too worried about it. I have been using it for over a year, and my identity hasn't been stolen yet. It has also saved my ass a few times.

I backup all my important info to a 500GB external drive and disconnect it when I'm not using it. Currently I do all my backups manually but if I really wanted to, I could set up a .bat file to backup whole folders on a daily basis. That saves me from having to encrypt everything I do because my external is password protected fairly well and I can take it anywhere that doesn't have internet.

I've almost never recovered anything successfully other than a few pictures.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Cletus @ Sep 29 2009, 02:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

I used to do the same, until the external HDD failed... Then I cried... Then I got S3.

boba.. im looking between s3 and mozy, but i can't decide... im wondering what it would cost for s3.. whats your usage and how much do you pay a month?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (bobalobabingbong @ Sep 29 2009, 12:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Yeah, I've only had 1 HD fail in 10 years... lucky me.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Cletus @ Sep 29 2009, 05:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

I've had 2 fail in 5 years... Unlucky me.

Try this: http://www.piriform.com/recuva

I use their other software, and I love it. I noticed this when I went to get an update.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Butzie @ Oct 2 2009, 10:09 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

who didn't? I was backing up my TI-99 BASIC programs to audio cassettes when I was 8.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Butzie @ Oct 1 2009, 07:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Who said it was an external drive? I've had my external for 3 years... my current internal HD for 6 years... and before that, one for 4 years...

sure they are good hard drives.

I had to lose two hard drives, ... suddenly ruined.