Here's something we haven't discussed:
Assume your data is on the drive. You MUST mount the effected drive read
only so that you don't accidentally overwrite any deleted information.
Every bit written is a bit lost.
What type of data were you storing primarily, and what do you want back?
- Sebastian
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Dennis Bagley wrote:
I sent this message to the rlug list (unfortunately several times)
yesterday but got
-0- feedback from anyone. I'm still looking for answers because I do
NOT want to accidentally
repeat the problem.
So anyone have answers besides "42"?
Thanks again
Dennis
Came into my office this morning to discover data missing from my PC.
I am running Ubuntu 5.04
On Friday everything seemed to be intact and okay. I have a dual drive
system
and decided to put the newest version of Ubuntu (5.10) on the second
drive - it seemed to install just fine
and I was also able to reboot into the older version. I must admit that
I did not run any programs
other than email and the browser before leaving my office for the
weekend.
HOWEVER, this morning when I tried to fire up VMWare - my virtual
machine files were GONE. The directory
where the files should have been was there but the files were not.
Also missing:
all the bookmarks in my browser (Firefox)
all the pop3 mail on my system
all of the contacts I had in Evolution
all the "sent" mail
all special email folders I had created that contained data.
All my other primary files appear to be intact. Ideas? Have I been
hacked? Did the the install
screw something up? If so, how?
(Fortunately I had a backup of the VM and the work data is stored on the
server. But I did not have a backup of
the email and contact info and that kinda torques me.)
Thanks
Dennis
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