*EMERGENCY* - hard disk wipe

[dbnoll03]

Don't ask me how, but some dude got a friend of mine to run the command "deltree c:\*.* /y" on her computer. (She doesn't know anything about them, obviosly) The good news is she exited out of it before it completed wiping her hard drive, but she lost many windows files and personal files. Is there any way to recover the data. She has not done anything to the computer since entering the command, not even turned it off. Any software to recover the lost data? She is running Windows 95 by the way. Thanks in advance.

[charmler]

I had a real early version of Norton that had a great undelete. It was DOS only. I still have it on an old 20 meg hd but haven't looked at it in years. I would try running a WIN95 startup floppy and then a Norton Utilities CD and try it that way. Don't boot to the C: drive.

[muno]

If she can start win95 ontrack has easy recovery, quite expensive but worked for me 85% of the files I accidentally wiped by removing the partition.
-M

[dbnoll03]

Ok. Thanks. I have Norton SystemWorks so I will try booting from that on her computer. If that fails I will try OnTrack. Any other suggestions?

[Undeadlord]

My only other suggestion is to find the person who got her to run that command and do something evil to him.


Undeadlord

[vintron]

DO NOT try to boot or add or delete files on that drive.

Take the affected drive out.... connect it to a system that already has a harddrive recovery software installed on one of IT'S OWN drives.

Try the recovery software.

DO NOT modify the contents of the original drive IN ANY WAY. if u do, it WILL NOT WORK properly duirng recovery

[jmatt]

This is for when you have it all back to normal . John .
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3. It is fully automated. It not only backs up the registry automatically, but restores it automatically in case of errors.

[jmatt]

Re my post , it's not that clear . The name of the progran is Registry Backup .

[dbnoll03]

I installed Ontrack EasyRecovery onto my computer, then made a boot disk and booted her computer up with it. It found all the files, but it cannot save them to the drive the files are being recovered from. So I brought over one of my spare drives only to find out she has a SCSI drive. She has a very old '94 Micron with a 90MHz processor and a 1GB hard drive. Any suggestions? Any software that can be run from DOS to recover the files right to the same drive. Oh...she accidentally restarted the comp and windows won't load anymore. Help please!

[jmatt]

Here are some to have a look at . John .

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