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Steve Welburn, 2012-11-16 11:32 AM

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h2. Anecdotal Tales Of Lost Data
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h3. Recovery of Overwritten Hard Disk Data
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5 October 2005 Linux Forums - http://tinyurl.com/8t7uaop
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Hi, a friend of mine just overwrote two months of her
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PhD thesis with an older version. I know recovery of
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overwritten data is possible, but wonder if I'd need
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special hardware to do it. Does anyone know something
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about this ?
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Thank You.
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h3. Stolen laptop had PhD research
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19 March 2008 Surrey Leader - http://tinyurl.com/9hmtlv4
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Thirty-five minutes spent in Langley’s Willowbrook
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Shopping Centre cost a Surrey woman much more than
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she had anticipated.
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Langley RCMP say that while she was shopping from
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1-1:35 p.m. last Monday, someone broke into her
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vehicle and stole a number of items, including
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a Mac iBook laptop containing the research she had 
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compiled as she worked towards her PhD.
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“All that information was on that computer and she
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has no back-up file,” said Langley RCMP spokesman
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Cpl. Brenda Marshall.
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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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h3. Happiness is the return of a stolen computer, with data intact
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27 May 2010 The Press, NZ - http://tinyurl.com/38sznnh
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Never has a man been so happy to see a computer full of data
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spreadsheets.
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Claudio De Sassi's world fell apart when a car containing almost three
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years work towards his PhD was stolen two weeks ago.
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De Sassi, a Canterbury University academic, could not hide his joy
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yesterday as police reunited him with his stolen laptop and backpack.
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h3. Thugs steal Christmas, doctoral dreams
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22 December 2010 KRQE - http://tinyurl.com/9a5j56f
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A tiny television sits where a big screen used to, and a Christmas tree
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stands with little underneath it...
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Even worse than the gifts, the crooks stole a MacBook Pro laptop and a
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LaCie hard drive.
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The hard drive had … her dissertation and nearly seven years of
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research for her doctoral degree she was set to fnish in a few weeks.
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Osuna had everything backed up on a separate hard drive in a safe, but
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burglars made off with that too.
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"All I could think about is that all that time is gone, all that effort,
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everything is gone," Osuna said.
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h3. Laptop Stolen From OSU Doctoral Student
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NBC4i January 06 2011 - http://tinyurl.com/bmybv9x
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...her car was broken into and her chrome Mac book pro was stolen.
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She has a back-up for all but the last six months of research, but the
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most important part of the research had happened recently.
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h3. Lost Thesis Poster
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http://twitpic.com/45t7vu
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!http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/45t7vu.jpg!
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h3. Recovery
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PostgraduateForum.com > Current PhD Students, PhD Life. 29 September 2011 - http://tinyurl.com/ct5e2no
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I've 'lost' my thesis
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Yes, I 'lost' my thesis today, at around 12:42pm (thesis RIP), microsoft word couldn't
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cope with the size of the document and my file got corrupted. I'd removed a small chunk
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of it and did some formatting to decrease its size yesterday but that obviously didn't
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stop it happening. After a few hours trying to recover it, I gave in and called for
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help. I then found out that, even if I'd managed to recover it, it probably wouldn't
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be the whole document, there could be parts missing, formatting gone awol, etc No sweat
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though, I regularly back up my work so it's just today's work that's been lost, well
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morning and lunch really as I spent the afternoon attempting to savage it,-) bit
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stressful but hey ho, not the end of the world. So for those of you who don't back your
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work up, start doing it now! And regularly! I can't possibly imagine what would have
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happened to me if I'd really lost everything weeks before submission...
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