Before (2006) I learned my lesson to make frequent backups I used this $50 software to recover my files: http://www.quetek.com/products3.htm In one instance I quick formatted a HDD and destroyed the directory structure and I got back almost everything on the drive. Laird
On 5/6/2011 5:14 PM, John Carter wrote: > I have used (expensive ~$300) software to recover files from otherwise > unreadable drives. If there's no physical damage, the odds of recovery > are high. > > If you're in the US, email me off-list for more info. > > John > > >> If all else fails, do not trash the drive. Depending on the damaged >> areas, data is sometimes retrievable. I recovered 90% of my data from >> a crashed drive by mounting it as an external drive when I got the new >> system up and running. Sometimes it works - sometimes it don't. >> >> Larry >> >> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Ron Ferguson<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Howland, >>> >>> Join the club – the HDD on my old XP machine went kaput last >>> Saturday. >>> Following which I would make one point to others, ensure that you have >>> your >>> email copies of your software registrations backed up on another disk. >>> Unfortunately I had not done this for my Tree Draw Legacy program and >>> Legacy >>> Sales are extremely slow in replying to my urgent emails requesting >>> copies >>> of the registration (6 days at the moment). >>> >>> Having got that off my chest (at least for the time being) Legacy stores >>> the >>> back-up for your files on the same HDD as the program in C:\Legacy\Data. >>> Unfortunately if that HDD has gone you are in trouble. Whether or not it >>> will be on your external drive, rather depends on what you have set it >>> up to >>> save. I suggest that you search this drive for it. If your Family File >>> was, >>> say, Ferguson.fdb then the back up will be of the form “Ferguson date >>> time.zip†in which case I would just search for the >>> “Ferguson†>>> bit. You may >>> get a lot of results, but it should not be too hard to pick it out. >>> >>> Ron Ferguson >>> >>> >>> From: Howlanddavisii >>> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 7:34 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Backup Of Family File >>> >>> Listers: >>> >>> My hard drive crashed last week. I always backed up my family file >>> when >>> exiting the file and I had an external hard drive that saved my files >>> once a >>> week. My question is where would the backup file be? What drive >>> would it >>> be in and what file name if I did not change anything from the default. >>> >>> Howland Davis >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Legacy User Group guidelines: >>> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >>> Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >>> Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and >>> on >>> our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). >>> To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp >>> >> >> Legacy User Group guidelines: >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >> Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >> Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and >> on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). >> To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp >> >> >> > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
