Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/02

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Subject: [Leica] OT: the horror
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Sat Sep 2 12:00:07 2006

Just had my brother on the phone.
He recently had a major hard disk crash (a 15 months old Dell  
computer), which made him loose all what was on it.
Right, he was one of those many that do not back-up. He does now.

But the interesting part follows below.

After the different stages of trying to recover what was on it  
(important stuff for him, since about everything of and for his  
professional career (a gastro-enterologist) was on it: consumer  
recovery programs, the IT division of his hospital, a friend IT  
engineer, ...
he finally sent the damaged disk to a professional data recovery  
company in Holland that could restore what was on it for about 80%.  
At the cost of a new computer, BTW.

The strange thing was that his data returned, but that the restored  
data were more (11 Gig) that what he had on the disk at the time when  
it crashed (8 Gig). It took him a week to revise everything that was  
on it (since all file info was lost) and he told me that it was  
unbelievable wat they restored: EVERY thing he did on the computer  
since he bought it, was recorded: not only deleted files, but also  
web addresses, things he typed in on the web, search results, ...  
every key stroke was recorded.

Morale: if you have something to hide, do not hide it on your computer.



Replies: Reply from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] OT: the horror)
Reply from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] OT: the horror)
Reply from luisripoll at telefonica.net (Luis Ripoll) ([Leica] OT: the horror)
Reply from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] A couple of "deers" ;-))