[emingeRek]

Just kill him, so in 15 years when you get out of prison you can visit his grave and laugh about the whole thing.

Yeah that kinda shot through my mind,..

@ Dutchforce
Cheepest service i could find is 400€ pro Harddrive !!!!
I don´t have that kinda money atm
Maybe i should resort to beating it out of my brother

[Talicoabilk]

Yeah that kinda shot through my mind,..

@ Dutchforce
Cheepest service i could find is 400€ pro Harddrive !!!!
I don´t have that kinda money atm
Maybe i should resort to beating it out of my brother

For every action there is an equal, but opposite, reaction. In other words, your brothers actions should reflect the only possible outcome from this horrific situation.... he owes you cash

[AgindyMinnife]

If you can't do anything with data recovery programs your only option would be specialized Data Recovery companies but they charge silly money. Get your brother to pay them [xmastongue]

[Avgustslim]

I understand man..

400 is alot of money, what you should being remind of is that the drive doesn't change a bit even waiting for a period of time.. reasonable time that is, so a few months wouldn't change the data on the disk when it is laying around. ( edit- I mean when it is stored in a anti-static bag for example)

so maybe that could help you bring close to 200 euro with some support of relatives and the other 200 by your brother.

I'm just thinking that if you mess with it yourself, you eventually do more harm than how it is now.. I'm not completely sure, but I wouldn't want to burn my fingers on it.

[gtyruzzel]

Found this, don't know if it's any good but no harm trying (free/open source)

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

[emingeRek]

Well thanks to foggy i found a prog that might be doing the job,..
Atm it´s scanning and it´s only at 3 %, which has already taken longer than the other progs to finish scanning.

So i really hope this´ll work.
And if my Brother doesn´t answer the phone in the next 10 minutes i´m gonna give him a visit with a baseball bat !!

Found this, don't know if it's any good but no harm trying (free/open source)

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

If this prog dsoesn´t work, i´ll give that one a chance.

[D6Ri5u13]

I would send it somewhere to have the data salvaged and he would pay for it.

He is 22yrs old...high time he learned some respect for anothers stuff. Especially his own brother.

Don't let him off the hook on this one. He needs to pay whether it comes out of his wallet or ummm....somewhere else.

[emingeRek]

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Guys you are the best !!!!

At the moment, 95% of all my pics are being restored and copied to another harddrive !!!!
(and will be saved to cd´s in a minute !!)

Again Mucho´s gracias !!!!!

Ohh man you guys cant believe how good i feel right now !!!!


A Big thank you go´s out to everybody that helped me out here, escpecially those that pm´d me !!
Again thanks !!!

now to see if i can restore some of the music !!

[DumErrory]

Now dont tell him and make him pay up

[emingeRek]

Now dont tell him and make him pay up

Yeah believe me,..
he´ll pay.

[Eujacwta]

[thumbup] Shiny. Glad you got the info back...

[Avgustslim]

My advice has costed money.... Glad you didn't listen to me.. [ tongue]

Am very happy you got everything back man. Cheers!

[movlabk]

Yeah believe me,..
he´ll pay.

funny - i just found this thread, and you have already fixed everything.
i cannot even imagine how furios i would be.

anyway.
from what i get here are 2 other options for those who want to know

ultimate boot cd for dos
http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/download.html
ultimate boot cd for windows
http://www.ubcd4win.com/downloads.htm

i think both of the above have freeware undelete and recovery programs

just in case you have more files you want to try to get back.

[AALee]

There's a lesson for us all here folks: always make backups of important stuff.

[TainuibeFaimb]

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Guys you are the best !!!!

At the moment, 95% of all my pics are being restored and copied to another harddrive !!!!
(and will be saved to cd´s in a minute !!)

Again Mucho´s gracias !!!!!

Ohh man you guys cant believe how good i feel right now !!!!


A Big thank you go´s out to everybody that helped me out here, escpecially those that pm´d me !!
Again thanks !!!

now to see if i can restore some of the music !!

Good to hear you got most of your stuff back,now I feel kind of paranoid though lol. Thanks for giving me this indirect reminder to back my pics up.

[flowersnewaho]

Why do you save them on CDs and not DVDs?


DVDs made my backups a lot easier and DVD burners are cheap.

[intendepods]

what program did you use btw

[Arbinknit]

That is just disrespectful. Why did he have your disk anyway? Did you say something before that might have led him to believe it was ok to do it?

I have a similar situation with my pickup truck. EVERYONE asks me if they can borrow it. It's my daily driver and I take good care of it, its always clean and shiny. Now I won't let anyone else drive it anymore because they fark it up every time. Last time was the worst, my sister drove it an hour away to pick up a piece of furniture. It was a heavy bookcase that was too big to lay down flat, and I ended up with scratches all over the bedrails. She never mentioned the scratches and she didn't put any gas in it. People try to save some money by borrowing my truck, but they are killing me. It makes me so mad. Nobody ever borrows it again.

[Varbaiskkic]

http://www.ontrack.com/desktop/

Ontrack Data Recovery is quite good.

[Biradallo]

Holy **** Golem. That sucks. I can't believe your brother would do that. Talk about a selfish, idiotic prick. No offense.

Best of luck in recovering the data!

EDIT: I see you've recovered most of it. Good. Now beat the **** out of your brother, preferably with an old hard drive you have lying around.