HELP...HAD A DISASTER

cats_five · 24 Jun 2019 at 17:33

Glad you are sorted. It reminded me to sync my photos etc. to the NAS... Not done previously this year!

I use OneDrive & Dropbox as well, for stuff I want to access on the laptop as well.

Semple · 24 Jun 2019 at 17:45

Griff7520 said:
well my files were backed up on 2 hard drives on my pc...

Not to make a dig at you, but that's not a backup!!

It might be stored on a secondary drive, but what if your PC was stolen, or had caught fire, or house had flooded. Along goes your backup.

Backups need to be offsite or on the cloud.

Stephanie Peterson · 24 Jun 2019 at 18:03

Get everything into the cloud, easiest way to back up stuff important to you.

No one does this until they loose precious data lol

Griff7520 · 24 Jun 2019 at 19:34

Semple said:
Not to make a dig at you, but that's not a backup!!

It might be stored on a secondary drive, but what if your PC was stolen, or had caught fire, or house had flooded. Along goes your backup.

Backups need to be offsite or on the cloud.

point taken

labcoattech · 25 Jun 2019 at 10:12

You need to follow the 3-2-1 rule,

3 copies, on 2 different media and 1 off-site.

loltim · 5 Jul 2019 at 10:28

pcfarrar said:
I've always used GetDataBack, going back years. Only last week I used it to recover 95% of 800GB on a USB drive that someone had accidently formatted.

https://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

I went to install this but it's warning about installing it on the same drive as the drive you're recovering files from. I was going to try it to recover items that Windows 10 auto-deleted from my downloads folder... (Storage Sense). Do I really have to remove the drive and recover from another PC or this a precautionary message? :confused:

Akagi · 5 Jul 2019 at 10:31

Fortunately it's quite easy to get data back from a freshly formatted drive, as long as you don't do the type of format which overwrites every sector with blank values.

Glad you got it all back

pcfarrar · 5 Jul 2019 at 10:55

loltim said:
I went to install this but it's warning about installing it on the same drive as the drive you're recovering files from. I was going to try it to recover items that Windows 10 auto-deleted from my downloads folder... (Storage Sense). Do I really have to remove the drive and recover from another PC or this a precautionary message?

It's always best to remove the drive and run the recovery on a different computer. If not you can use a bootable USB/DVD.

https://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-live-cd.htm

Akagi · 5 Jul 2019 at 11:01

pcfarrar said:
It's always best to remove the drive and run the recovery on a different computer. If not you can use a bootable USB/DVD.

https://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-live-cd.htm

True, if the OS is installed on the drive this is best. If not, it wont matter.

loltim · 5 Jul 2019 at 11:08

Right but is it just precautionary? I'm not going to delete anything. I presumed I could mount the partition before recovering, like with veeam etc? I just tried the live cd and the touchpad didn't work unfortunately. It's a surface pro 4 too so only 1 x usb port