Tales Of Lost Data » History » Version 1
Steve Welburn, 2012-11-16 11:32 AM
| 1 | 1 | Steve Welburn | h2. Anecdotal Tales Of Lost Data |
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| 3 | 1 | Steve Welburn | h3. Recovery of Overwritten Hard Disk Data |
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| 5 | 1 | Steve Welburn | 5 October 2005 Linux Forums - http://tinyurl.com/8t7uaop |
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| 7 | 1 | Steve Welburn | <pre> |
| 8 | 1 | Steve Welburn | Hi, a friend of mine just overwrote two months of her |
| 9 | 1 | Steve Welburn | PhD thesis with an older version. I know recovery of |
| 10 | 1 | Steve Welburn | overwritten data is possible, but wonder if I'd need |
| 11 | 1 | Steve Welburn | special hardware to do it. Does anyone know something |
| 12 | 1 | Steve Welburn | about this ? |
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| 14 | 1 | Steve Welburn | Thank You. |
| 15 | 1 | Steve Welburn | </pre> |
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| 17 | 1 | Steve Welburn | h3. Stolen laptop had PhD research |
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| 19 | 1 | Steve Welburn | 19 March 2008 Surrey Leader - http://tinyurl.com/9hmtlv4 |
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| 21 | 1 | Steve Welburn | <pre> |
| 22 | 1 | Steve Welburn | Thirty-five minutes spent in Langley’s Willowbrook |
| 23 | 1 | Steve Welburn | Shopping Centre cost a Surrey woman much more than |
| 24 | 1 | Steve Welburn | she had anticipated. |
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| 26 | 1 | Steve Welburn | Langley RCMP say that while she was shopping from |
| 27 | 1 | Steve Welburn | 1-1:35 p.m. last Monday, someone broke into her |
| 28 | 1 | Steve Welburn | vehicle and stole a number of items, including |
| 29 | 1 | Steve Welburn | a Mac iBook laptop containing the research she had |
| 30 | 1 | Steve Welburn | compiled as she worked towards her PhD. |
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| 32 | 1 | Steve Welburn | “All that information was on that computer and she |
| 33 | 1 | Steve Welburn | has no back-up file,” said Langley RCMP spokesman |
| 34 | 1 | Steve Welburn | Cpl. Brenda Marshall. |
| 35 | 1 | Steve Welburn | </pre> |
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| 38 | 1 | Steve Welburn | Google images of "Langley Willowbrook":https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=50&hl=en&q=Langley+Willowbrook+Shopping+Centre&&tbm=isch |
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| 40 | 1 | Steve Welburn | h3. Happiness is the return of a stolen computer, with data intact |
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| 42 | 1 | Steve Welburn | 27 May 2010 The Press, NZ - http://tinyurl.com/38sznnh |
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| 44 | 1 | Steve Welburn | <pre> |
| 45 | 1 | Steve Welburn | Never has a man been so happy to see a computer full of data |
| 46 | 1 | Steve Welburn | spreadsheets. |
| 47 | 1 | Steve Welburn | |
| 48 | 1 | Steve Welburn | Claudio De Sassi's world fell apart when a car containing almost three |
| 49 | 1 | Steve Welburn | years work towards his PhD was stolen two weeks ago. |
| 50 | 1 | Steve Welburn | De Sassi, a Canterbury University academic, could not hide his joy |
| 51 | 1 | Steve Welburn | yesterday as police reunited him with his stolen laptop and backpack. |
| 52 | 1 | Steve Welburn | </pre> |
| 53 | 1 | Steve Welburn | |
| 54 | 1 | Steve Welburn | h3. Thugs steal Christmas, doctoral dreams |
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| 56 | 1 | Steve Welburn | 22 December 2010 KRQE - http://tinyurl.com/9a5j56f |
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| 58 | 1 | Steve Welburn | <pre> |
| 59 | 1 | Steve Welburn | A tiny television sits where a big screen used to, and a Christmas tree |
| 60 | 1 | Steve Welburn | stands with little underneath it... |
| 61 | 1 | Steve Welburn | |
| 62 | 1 | Steve Welburn | Even worse than the gifts, the crooks stole a MacBook Pro laptop and a |
| 63 | 1 | Steve Welburn | LaCie hard drive. |
| 64 | 1 | Steve Welburn | |
| 65 | 1 | Steve Welburn | The hard drive had … her dissertation and nearly seven years of |
| 66 | 1 | Steve Welburn | research for her doctoral degree she was set to fnish in a few weeks. |
| 67 | 1 | Steve Welburn | Osuna had everything backed up on a separate hard drive in a safe, but |
| 68 | 1 | Steve Welburn | burglars made off with that too. |
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| 70 | 1 | Steve Welburn | "All I could think about is that all that time is gone, all that effort, |
| 71 | 1 | Steve Welburn | everything is gone," Osuna said. |
| 72 | 1 | Steve Welburn | </pre> |
| 73 | 1 | Steve Welburn | |
| 74 | 1 | Steve Welburn | |
| 75 | 1 | Steve Welburn | h3. Laptop Stolen From OSU Doctoral Student |
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| 77 | 1 | Steve Welburn | NBC4i January 06 2011 - http://tinyurl.com/bmybv9x |
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| 79 | 1 | Steve Welburn | <pre> |
| 80 | 1 | Steve Welburn | ...her car was broken into and her chrome Mac book pro was stolen. |
| 81 | 1 | Steve Welburn | She has a back-up for all but the last six months of research, but the |
| 82 | 1 | Steve Welburn | most important part of the research had happened recently. |
| 83 | 1 | Steve Welburn | </pre> |
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| 85 | 1 | Steve Welburn | h3. Lost Thesis Poster |
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| 87 | 1 | Steve Welburn | http://twitpic.com/45t7vu |
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| 89 | 1 | Steve Welburn | !http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/45t7vu.jpg! |
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| 91 | 1 | Steve Welburn | h3. Recovery |
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| 93 | 1 | Steve Welburn | PostgraduateForum.com > Current PhD Students, PhD Life. 29 September 2011 - http://tinyurl.com/ct5e2no |
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| 95 | 1 | Steve Welburn | <pre> |
| 96 | 1 | Steve Welburn | I've 'lost' my thesis |
| 97 | 1 | Steve Welburn | |
| 98 | 1 | Steve Welburn | Yes, I 'lost' my thesis today, at around 12:42pm (thesis RIP), microsoft word couldn't |
| 99 | 1 | Steve Welburn | cope with the size of the document and my file got corrupted. I'd removed a small chunk |
| 100 | 1 | Steve Welburn | of it and did some formatting to decrease its size yesterday but that obviously didn't |
| 101 | 1 | Steve Welburn | stop it happening. After a few hours trying to recover it, I gave in and called for |
| 102 | 1 | Steve Welburn | help. I then found out that, even if I'd managed to recover it, it probably wouldn't |
| 103 | 1 | Steve Welburn | be the whole document, there could be parts missing, formatting gone awol, etc No sweat |
| 104 | 1 | Steve Welburn | though, I regularly back up my work so it's just today's work that's been lost, well |
| 105 | 1 | Steve Welburn | morning and lunch really as I spent the afternoon attempting to savage it,-) bit |
| 106 | 1 | Steve Welburn | stressful but hey ho, not the end of the world. So for those of you who don't back your |
| 107 | 1 | Steve Welburn | work up, start doing it now! And regularly! I can't possibly imagine what would have |
| 108 | 1 | Steve Welburn | happened to me if I'd really lost everything weeks before submission... |
| 109 | 1 | Steve Welburn | </pre> |