HELP!!!

[SupaCat]

I am trying to restore a lost/saved over file in
powerpoint....does anyone know how I can do this so that I
don't have to say goodbye to 3 months worth of work on a
40 page proposal because of a co-workers mistake?

 

[Eric Lange]

Can you "undelete" the file from the trash bin? Can you restore the system
to a previous date before the file was deleted?
Not sure these will work...but this is all that comes to mind.
Good luck.....

 

[LVTravel]

If you have saved over a file, the data in that file is gone/replaced with
the new data. Hopefully you back up your data on a daily basis to new
tapes/disks. Go back in the backups for the data.

If there is no backup to this important piece of work: 1. Fire the co-worker
for dumping the information. 2. Fire yourself for not backing up the data
every day.

My office keeps a daily backup (full server backup) each day to two sources.
One is a removable hard disk drive (80 GB) with a 30+ disk rotation. One
disk from each week is kept for 30 days and the most recent disk from each
month is kept for one year. The second backup is to another hard disk drive.
This data is never deleted just added/modified each night from the server
(duplicates server data each night). This is for those poor people who dump
their file/s and need to recover it about 3 months later. It's in there.
If you had the first type of system you could go back to the disk/tape the
night before the co-worker overwrote your file and recover at that point.
If the file was simply deleted you could have used the second backup system
to recover the data.

 

[cimex]

System Restore cannot recover your data files.
You will need third-party help if you cannot find the file in the Recycle
Bin. DriveSavers is expensive and a last resort. Look for a program In
Google: "data recovery."

 

[Malke]

Can you "undelete" the file from the trash bin? Can you restore the
system to a previous date before the file was deleted?
Not sure these will work...but this is all that comes to mind.
Good luck.....

Restoring the system probably won't help. If you already emptied the
recycle bin, you can try commercial data recovery tools like Ontrack's
Easy Recovery. Download it and install it on a different machine - you
don't want to do *anything* on the machine with the data to be
recovery. You then make a boot disk and boot the affected machine.

If this doesn't work, then contact DriveSavers (www.drivesavers.com).
They will not be inexpensive, but they are a highly respected
professional data recovery firm. Only you can decide if the $500 or so
for the recovery is worth it.

Malke