By Dan Ilett
Published: Thursday 16 November 2006
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Who needs a Car?
Location
Australia
Occupation
Engineer
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Funny,
I managed to stump the good people at Ontrack's data recovery software, simply by hitting the "Disk Clean up" button on my Windows XP desktop. The system hung for an entire evening (started it before going home), then when I hard reset the box to regain control, (holding power button) it had lost my OS completely. Got our (mostly competent) IT guys to come have a look, they "repaired XP" with the install disk and *Ta Da*, large swathes of my data were gone. Not even Ontrack's Easy Recovery Pro could retrieve it! Lets see your SUV do that! (Thanks M$, i've always loved your work!)
Haha! Despite continued stupidity from our own han...
james wilmington
But when I send them my hard drive that became unw...
Jean-Michel
This 'news story' stinks of advertisement. OnTrac...
Tom Wagner
That was a very long advertisment.
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Funny,
I managed to stump the good people at On...
Who needs a Car?
One thing you should always do with your data is e...
Amy
Personally, I'd always back up data before doing a...
Clinton
Oh, and don't forget to always test your backups.....
Clinton
Hey, I heard of this bloke who always backed up th...
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