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I accidentally quick formatted my 2TB HDD PLEASE HELP!
- Thread starter Syther101
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Indeed this!. This has most definitely persuaded me to buy a new backup HDD. The prices has come back down to a pretty much reasonable price now.
Also just to say to everybody else. THANKS! so far for all the information. Shall keep the original post updated as the recovery process happens. Sadly it being such a big drive it's going to take quite some time
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Search the net for ROBOCOPY, I've got a 256 ssd from games et al, 500gb primary storage (music etc) then 2X1tb drives (USB) out the back of the machine and use robocopy in a bat file to copy between the storage to usb 1 then from usb 1 to usb 2. Quick simply and effective.
I've also got it running to a networked NAS but those commands are slightly more advanced and if its all local its REALLY easy to use and setup.
Once you have your BAT file then use Scheduler to run it 1 a day/week however you want. First run obviously takes a lot of time, follow up runs only take in changes.
BE CAREFUL WITH THE /MIR extension though it makes everything a mirror of the source drive, and if you had extra files on the backup drive they will be removed. ( if your using the route drive locations, this can be avoided using a deeper folder structure).
I've also got it running to a networked NAS but those commands are slightly more advanced and if its all local its REALLY easy to use and setup.
Once you have your BAT file then use Scheduler to run it 1 a day/week however you want. First run obviously takes a lot of time, follow up runs only take in changes.
BE CAREFUL WITH THE /MIR extension though it makes everything a mirror of the source drive, and if you had extra files on the backup drive they will be removed. ( if your using the route drive locations, this can be avoided using a deeper folder structure).
I tend to swear by Active@ UNDELETE but i'm sure there's plenty of others (I'll take a look at this Recuva on a random old drive I don't care about, see what it finds). Active@ has saved my ass twice in real life situations, the first time with a raid-0 that I was pretty sure was toast (it just put it all back on it's feet again, no recovering files to anywhere).
Can Recuva just set a file back to being "live" again (i.e not "recover this file to here" more "just make this folder live again") cos i'm pretty sure i've got Active@ to do that before. It might have been just a file allocation table or MBR rebuild that fixed things though, I forget.
Can Recuva just set a file back to being "live" again (i.e not "recover this file to here" more "just make this folder live again") cos i'm pretty sure i've got Active@ to do that before. It might have been just a file allocation table or MBR rebuild that fixed things though, I forget.
By the way you have described it that software does sound better but the only problem is it costs XD. Recuva is made by the same people as CCleaner and is completely free. Although I have no idea how many files it is going to find. Fingers crossed it works 100% but I have no idea yet. 75% and counting. About 2 hours remaining. Certainly is a quick process that's for sure XD. Damm mechanical drive!
Yup, Active@ isn't free unfortunately. I think I downloaded the demo, saw it could see everything and started throwing my money at the screen, realised that was futile and pulled out card.
It's one of the few bits of none gaming software that I think has earnt it's money. Not sure what it runs at now, I think I paid about £15 for it which seemed fairly reasonable at the time.
I really would love to use things such as Dropbox but with fibre not being available in my area and having 7MB Down/0.2MB Up it's really not great to upload to XD. When I get fibre I will most definitely be using cloud services more but until then it's just to painful to deal with. Especially as it renders my internet useless in the process of uploading XD
Actually, while we are on the subject of cloud storage is there anything around that interfaces itself as just a folder that's synced in the background? I think dropbox does this?
Have fibre now so I should probably make use of something like this for older stuff I'd be bothered about loosing. If it's one that I can tell to use a certain amount of bandwidth to sync in it's own sweet time (like "here, you can use 4Mb up, sync it when you can") that would be ideal.
Have fibre now so I should probably make use of something like this for older stuff I'd be bothered about loosing. If it's one that I can tell to use a certain amount of bandwidth to sync in it's own sweet time (like "here, you can use 4Mb up, sync it when you can") that would be ideal.
Yep Dropbox makes a folder in you're User folder called Dropbox and whenever a new file is added from that current computer or another device connected to you're Dropbox account they will automaticly sync on all machines. Pretty damm handy tbh. Gad damm I want fibre XD
Does it have it stored somewhere online too though or just on the machines set to sync? (sorry to do a mini hijack on your thread btw 
) i'd go find out but at work and the firewall blocks online storage sites.
Edit: Ignore. Found my answer, you can recover stuff within 30 days but it's not actual online storage as such. Maybe this + googledrive then.
) i'd go find out but at work and the firewall blocks online storage sites.Edit: Ignore. Found my answer, you can recover stuff within 30 days but it's not actual online storage as such. Maybe this + googledrive then.
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Does it have it stored somewhere online too though or just on the machines set to sync? (sorry to do a mini hijack on your thread btw
Yeh they are also included in the cloud storage. Also the files are synced but you can decide if they are actually stored on you're machine or if it just displays that they folder is their and will download the files from the cloud if you need them
Does it have it stored somewhere online too though or just on the machines set to sync? (sorry to do a mini hijack on your thread btw
Edit: Ignore. Found my answer, you can recover stuff within 30 days but it's not actual online storage as such. Maybe this + googledrive then.
Damm never knew that. Strange seeing as you can pay to upgrade the storage. Swear there is a way to directly upload files to it as I have a shared folder on there with friends
I think the shared folder thing just copies stuff straight to friends so you all get a copy but there's not one on the server as such.
I think skydrive looks like the winner at the moment, 25GB, online storage and the whole folder sync thing if i'm reading it right. I guess using them all as suits works tho
U got your stuff back yet?
I think skydrive looks like the winner at the moment, 25GB, online storage and the whole folder sync thing if i'm reading it right. I guess using them all as suits works tho
U got your stuff back yet?
I think the shared folder thing just copies stuff straight to friends so you all get a copy but there's not one on the server as such.
I think skydrive looks like the winner at the moment, 25GB, online storage and the whole folder sync thing if i'm reading it right. I guess using them all as suits works tho
U got your stuff back yet?
15 Minutes left of the file discovery part of the process. Then to find out what it thinks it can recover and then to leave it copying the files over night to a different drive. Wish me luck XD
PROGRESS UPDATE
So the scanning of my drive just completed with Recuva after 7 hours which is what it original guessed so 10/10 for that.
As far as what it has found. It found some of my files. But 1. None of them had any kind of naming to them and 2. Their where a whole bunch missing. I have no idea how seeing as I have not even touched the dive since so the files should still be pretty freash. Trying some other software mentioned. Safe to say this sucks hard! :/
So the scanning of my drive just completed with Recuva after 7 hours which is what it original guessed so 10/10 for that.
As far as what it has found. It found some of my files. But 1. None of them had any kind of naming to them and 2. Their where a whole bunch missing. I have no idea how seeing as I have not even touched the dive since so the files should still be pretty freash. Trying some other software mentioned. Safe to say this sucks hard! :/