i lost almost everything

[alsih2o]

in my time here on the boards i have been exposed to many great products i would not normally have known about.

many i have purchased, and occasionally i have been pleased to find publishers here sending me a freebie....and when my p.c. crashed (motherboard) i lost almost all of it.

all the free pdf's...my purchased copies of many AND my purchased copy of campaign suite.

a decent little collection right out the window

i still have all my creative mountain games stuff (i do some work for mark, so it was in a different folder) but other than that it is all gone and i am seriously funked down hard over it, i had a decent little collection going.......

 

[hong]

D'oh!

Have you tried taking the HD to a data recovery shop? There might be stuff there you can still salvage.

 

[Eternalknight]

in my time here on the boards i have been exposed to many great products i would not normally have known about.

many i have purchased, and occasionally i have been pleased to find publishers here sending me a freebie....and when my p.c. crashed (motherboard) i lost almost all of it.

all the free pdf's...my purchased copies of many AND my purchased copy of campaign suite.

a decent little collection right out the window

i still have all my creative mountain games stuff (i do some work for mark, so it was in a different folder) but other than that it is all gone and i am seriously funked down hard over it, i had a decent little collection going.......

I'm in the same situation... I'm just hoping the can fix my HDD and get my stuff back...

 

[alsih2o]

D'oh!

Have you tried taking the HD to a data recovery shop? There might be stuff there you can still salvage.

the guy at my local shop saved my documents file begfore sending it to the manufacturer, who erased everythign else before sending it off.

i am a compu-dolt, so if that is still possible let me know please

 

[satori01]

You have my sympathies, my hard drive fried around 6 months ago and I lost everything, including about 100 pages of writting that in my foolishness I did not have backuped. I now burn all important files onto cd periodically, and with pdfs immedietely after purchase.

Many companies offer data retrieval for crispy hard drives and often have very high recovery percentages, if you dont mind spending the money you might try one.

 

[Desdichado]

Yeesh! I should do a back-up onto a few CDs of some of my main files that I don't want to ever lose.

Just in case.

 

[Bagpuss]

I had a similar problem my Microsoft XP PC died the other day, thankfully I was able to get round the password protection of the user areas (even though Microsoft told me it would be impossible), and salvage most off my stuff off by setting it up as a secondary drive. Mind you even if I didn't I had backups on CD of all but the most recent downloads I've paid for.

Let this be a lesson to you, backup to CD.

 

[Eternalknight]

the guy at my local shop saved my documents file begfore sending it to the manufacturer, who erased everythign else before sending it off.

i am a compu-dolt, so if that is still possible let me know please

It still may be possible... when you format a hard drive it doesn't actually delete the stuff; a good data recovery program needs to be run on it to see if you can get it back.

 

[alsih2o]

well, as per usual great advice from the crew here...can someone state for me in layman speak exactly what i will be asking this person to do

you folks are the best!

 

[Eternalknight]

well, as per usual great advice from the crew here...can someone state for me in layman speak exactly what i will be asking this person to do

you folks are the best!

Tell him you had some important fils on there and you would like to get them back. He should know how to do the rest.