Tales Of Lost Data » History » Version 4
Steve Welburn, 2012-11-16 12:02 PM
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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 | 4 | Steve Welburn | bq. Hi, a friend of mine just overwrote two months of her |
| 8 | 1 | Steve Welburn | PhD thesis with an older version. I know recovery of |
| 9 | 1 | Steve Welburn | overwritten data is possible, but wonder if I'd need |
| 10 | 1 | Steve Welburn | special hardware to do it. Does anyone know something |
| 11 | 1 | Steve Welburn | about this ? |
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| 13 | 4 | Steve Welburn | bq. Thank You. |
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| 15 | 1 | Steve Welburn | h3. Stolen laptop had PhD research |
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| 17 | 1 | Steve Welburn | 19 March 2008 Surrey Leader - http://tinyurl.com/9hmtlv4 |
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| 19 | 4 | Steve Welburn | bq. Thirty-five minutes spent in Langley’s Willowbrook |
| 20 | 1 | Steve Welburn | Shopping Centre cost a Surrey woman much more than |
| 21 | 1 | Steve Welburn | she had anticipated. |
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| 23 | 4 | Steve Welburn | bq. Langley RCMP say that while she was shopping from |
| 24 | 1 | Steve Welburn | 1-1:35 p.m. last Monday, someone broke into her |
| 25 | 1 | Steve Welburn | vehicle and stole a number of items, including |
| 26 | 1 | Steve Welburn | a Mac iBook laptop containing the research she had |
| 27 | 1 | Steve Welburn | compiled as she worked towards her PhD. |
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| 29 | 4 | Steve Welburn | bq. “All that information was on that computer and she |
| 30 | 1 | Steve Welburn | has no back-up file,” said Langley RCMP spokesman |
| 31 | 1 | Steve Welburn | Cpl. Brenda Marshall. |
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| 33 | 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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| 35 | 1 | Steve Welburn | h3. Happiness is the return of a stolen computer, with data intact |
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| 37 | 1 | Steve Welburn | 27 May 2010 The Press, NZ - http://tinyurl.com/38sznnh |
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| 39 | 4 | Steve Welburn | bq. Never has a man been so happy to see a computer full of data |
| 40 | 1 | Steve Welburn | spreadsheets. |
| 41 | 1 | Steve Welburn | |
| 42 | 4 | Steve Welburn | bq. Claudio De Sassi's world fell apart when a car containing almost three |
| 43 | 1 | Steve Welburn | years work towards his PhD was stolen two weeks ago. |
| 44 | 1 | Steve Welburn | De Sassi, a Canterbury University academic, could not hide his joy |
| 45 | 1 | Steve Welburn | yesterday as police reunited him with his stolen laptop and backpack. |
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| 47 | 1 | Steve Welburn | h3. Thugs steal Christmas, doctoral dreams |
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| 49 | 1 | Steve Welburn | 22 December 2010 KRQE - http://tinyurl.com/9a5j56f |
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| 51 | 4 | Steve Welburn | bq. A tiny television sits where a big screen used to, and a Christmas tree |
| 52 | 1 | Steve Welburn | stands with little underneath it... |
| 53 | 1 | Steve Welburn | |
| 54 | 4 | Steve Welburn | bq. Even worse than the gifts, the crooks stole a MacBook Pro laptop and a |
| 55 | 1 | Steve Welburn | LaCie hard drive. |
| 56 | 1 | Steve Welburn | |
| 57 | 4 | Steve Welburn | bq. The hard drive had … her dissertation and nearly seven years of |
| 58 | 1 | Steve Welburn | research for her doctoral degree she was set to fnish in a few weeks. |
| 59 | 1 | Steve Welburn | Osuna had everything backed up on a separate hard drive in a safe, but |
| 60 | 1 | Steve Welburn | burglars made off with that too. |
| 61 | 1 | Steve Welburn | |
| 62 | 4 | Steve Welburn | bq. "All I could think about is that all that time is gone, all that effort, |
| 63 | 1 | Steve Welburn | everything is gone," Osuna said. |
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| 65 | 1 | Steve Welburn | |
| 66 | 1 | Steve Welburn | h3. Laptop Stolen From OSU Doctoral Student |
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| 68 | 1 | Steve Welburn | NBC4i January 06 2011 - http://tinyurl.com/bmybv9x |
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| 70 | 4 | Steve Welburn | bq. ...her car was broken into and her chrome Mac book pro was stolen. |
| 71 | 1 | Steve Welburn | She has a back-up for all but the last six months of research, but the |
| 72 | 1 | Steve Welburn | most important part of the research had happened recently. |
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| 74 | 1 | Steve Welburn | h3. Lost Thesis Poster |
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| 76 | 1 | Steve Welburn | http://twitpic.com/45t7vu |
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| 78 | 1 | Steve Welburn | !http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/45t7vu.jpg! |
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| 80 | 1 | Steve Welburn | h3. Recovery |
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| 82 | 1 | Steve Welburn | PostgraduateForum.com > Current PhD Students, PhD Life. 29 September 2011 - http://tinyurl.com/ct5e2no |
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| 84 | 3 | Steve Welburn | bq. I've 'lost' my thesis |
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| 86 | 3 | Steve Welburn | bq. Yes, I 'lost' my thesis today, at around 12:42pm (thesis RIP), microsoft word couldn't |
| 87 | 1 | Steve Welburn | cope with the size of the document and my file got corrupted. I'd removed a small chunk |
| 88 | 1 | Steve Welburn | of it and did some formatting to decrease its size yesterday but that obviously didn't |
| 89 | 1 | Steve Welburn | stop it happening. After a few hours trying to recover it, I gave in and called for |
| 90 | 1 | Steve Welburn | help. I then found out that, even if I'd managed to recover it, it probably wouldn't |
| 91 | 1 | Steve Welburn | be the whole document, there could be parts missing, formatting gone awol, etc No sweat |
| 92 | 1 | Steve Welburn | though, I regularly back up my work so it's just today's work that's been lost, well |
| 93 | 1 | Steve Welburn | morning and lunch really as I spent the afternoon attempting to savage it,-) bit |
| 94 | 1 | Steve Welburn | stressful but hey ho, not the end of the world. So for those of you who don't back your |
| 95 | 1 | Steve Welburn | work up, start doing it now! And regularly! I can't possibly imagine what would have |
| 96 | 1 | Steve Welburn | happened to me if I'd really lost everything weeks before submission... |
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| 99 | 3 | Steve Welburn | h3. Saving the data! |
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| 101 | 3 | Steve Welburn | AG Daws "Back It Up":http://www.agdaws.com/2011/08/back-it-up/ 1 August 2011 - http://tinyurl.com/dyntczd |
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| 103 | 3 | Steve Welburn | bq. I was busy in the lab one day writing my Honours thesis when the fire alarm went off. I assumed it was a drill. I kept on writing. That is, until the fire warden found me. He said the lab next door was on fire and told me to get the hell outside with everybody else. |
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| 105 | 3 | Steve Welburn | bq. I stared at him, then at the ageing Apple Macintosh computer with all of my precious words painstakingly hammered into place with two fingers. (This was before I could touch-type.) Then I looked at the jars of extremely flammable fixative and solvents and God-only-knows-what-else lining the shelves. (This was also before occupational health and safety was given much credence.) |
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| 107 | 3 | Steve Welburn | bq. I can tell you one thing—Word’s auto-save feature didn’t give me much comfort on that day. I fought off the fire warden long enough to unplug the computer from the wall and disentangle it from various peripherals. Then I carried the damned thing downstairs in my arms. |
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| 109 | 3 | Steve Welburn | bq. That was when I started backing up my work religiously. |