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Tech Support?
Topic Started: May 7 2007, 10:36 PM (92 Views)
Ash
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Okay, well, I have a slight problem..

Bought a new PC a few weeks back, finally got it all set up yesterday and transferred a bunch of files across. It was all finished by 1am this morning after nine hours of transfers via a small network. I checked everything was there and working, so I called it a night..

Get up this afternoon (long lay in) and my sister tells me all of her music files have vanished. Not mine, just hers. In place of where these files are is a directory for iTunes, which she had just blindly installed (she's one of those people who click 'next' until the thing is installed, without reading anything). I did a search for the files and it located several of them, but couldn't actually access the files, as it still listed them as being in their original folder - the one with the newly placed iTunes directory.
As a result, I uninstalled iTunes and even went back a few hours to a system restore point. I hated doing this so new into the PC's life, but I had to try and recover the files. No luck.

Then I remembered that you can download data recovery programmes. For the last six hours, I've been trying different combinations and the ones that deep scan my hard drive find all the files. They won't, however, restore them due to the fact that I'm using freeware. It wants, on average, $70 to authenticate the programme and restore the files. I refuse to pay when the files are all on the old PC, but I also refuse to waste another chunk of time transferring the files.

Does anyone know of a way I can recover the files?
Better yet, anyone know a free data recovery programme that actually recovers data for free?
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Xtreme Kitten
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Have you tried using the command console to simply copy the files from directory it says they are in to a new directory somewhere not effected by this problem?
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Ash
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Can't say I have.
Except, I can't even search the files now. They've disappeared entirely.

When the search option listed the files being in the music folder, I tried to open it, but it said that the file location may have changed name or no longer exist. Same for when I tried to actually play the files through the search feature..
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Xtreme Kitten
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You should give the console a try, I've had trouble similar to this and files that refused to do anything and it helped out.

If you don't know how to use the command console well then I guess you could google how to do it or I could explain it.... though if the files aren't there at all anymore it wont do much goo.
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Ash
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I Googled it and I'm not making much sense out of it. Mainly because its telling me how to do it in Windows 2000 and XP. I'm running Vista.

That and it said about having a Windows installation disc. Seeing as I didn't set up this PC, I don't know if it came with one. Most likely did, but I can't be bothered to get up and look in the garage for all the stuff right now :lol:
From what I've read, the command console function is relatively complicated and requires knowledge of MS-DOS, of which I have none.

As I said, though, using the search facility, it doesn't turn up anything. But, these file recovery things actually locate them in various clusters. They just won't restore without money. I tried cracks to cheat the system, but they're all verified as being pirated accounts.

Thanks for the suggestion though XK.
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Xtreme Kitten
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No knowledge of MS-DOS? Yes then you wouldn't be able to make heads or tales of it. I've not had the chance to use Vista so I don't know how to go about using the console in that.

Well my only other tip is, delete the directory they are trapped in then copy them over from the old pc like you had done the night before. Though that's the incredibly simple way of handling it and who does that?
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Ash
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The only reason I want to avoid transferring the files is because it took nine hours to move the lot. Despite there being less this time around, it'll still probably take a chunk of my day..

Looks like my only option -_-
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Steve
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Your problem is that your running VISTA....:(
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Ash
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I know -_-

I've transferred all the missing files again anyway, so it's technically fixed. Technically.
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