BIG PROBLEM NEED TO RECOVER COURSEWORK

hellarda · 27 Mar 2011 at 17:38

hi,

sorry for the caps but i am having a slight panic attack here.

please do not have a go at me for not having backups at the moment, i know its stupid and i should have done but i didnt, so theres no point having a go. productive advice is what is needed.

basically

installed SBS 2011 on my server, started to connect my computer to it, when it said 'if you want to be able to access your files after please select from the drop down list below' now for some reason i didnt select it because i thought that would mean it would link my documents to the server account.

so anyway finished installing, rebooted, when it booted back up logged in to my original user, most of my icons had gone and my background was changed to the default. **** so i went to my computer and saw that the harddrive had 300gb more free space than usual, double **** (!@"*&"+!"£*

so i immediately shut down, so that nothing was written to the disk, and booted into my 2nd OS that is on a different partition. which is where im writing this from now.

what would be the best course of action here now? the file that i need was located under C:\Users\Alastair\Documents\Caterham School\Music\Tech Piece Write Up

I NEED THIS FILE BY FRIDAY! It is over 3000 words and has taken ages to write..

please dont ask why i dont have backups atm theres no point that will get me nowhere and i do normally have backups but i was reinstalling SBS so i didnt today.

any ideas?

cheers

hellarda · 27 Mar 2011 at 20:51

thanks, well currently i am running 'recover my files v4' and so far its picked up EVERYTHING except my coursework

i hope i have a copy at school :S

hellarda · 28 Mar 2011 at 14:59

basically when you join a computer to and SBS network it basically overwrites the current user data with the stuff on the server.

im at school at the moment so cant take a screenshot, but they have been deleted because i logged onto the same user as usual (Alastair) and i had nothing of mine there, and when i went to the local disk it had another 300GB free than usual.

Under users there are no new folders and the folder that had them before as i said has been overwritten

hellarda · 28 Mar 2011 at 16:55

right am currently running recuva deep scan on the volume, which has an eta of 2 days :S

so i will leav that running,

i would have got drop box but my max upload speed is around about 10kb/s so the amount of time it would take to upload stuff would be stupid :L

oh and i had a copy of the coursework at school PHHEEEWWW so im not completely screwed but i still need everything else back! :L

anyways will report back with what recuva picks up

cheers guys

hellarda · 28 Mar 2011 at 19:37

right i ran a deep scan just for documents, and it found some documents.

i then ran it to look for all file types and it didnt return anything for documents? :confused:

and because i need to basically recover 300gb of data is there anyway to get recuva to order the files somehow? like based on the original location?

cos i cannot possible order 675,865 files myself....