Pegasus (MVP) said:
You'd be surprised how many people do actually have a
backup of an extremely important file, perhaps made some
time in the past, and forget about it when the panic sets in.
If not then it's the usual steep tuition fee they have to pay
for the basic lesson in backing up important files.
One of my friends who has his own buisiness was up all night troublshooting
some customer
equipment and was way over-tired.
I stopped by in the morning and he was fooling with his computer...
then I heard heard him say something like : But I don't have a "J:" drive...
and before I could yell: "Don't do that!!!!"
He deleted it! (Well he certainly did not have a J: drive then...it was
his external USB drive)
His backup was about a week old, so it would not have been a complete
"end of the world" situation...but still a major dumb move.
At that point I told him *not* to do anything other than to go to bed...
and do *nothing* with the drive until he got some recovery software.
The next day he used Partition Magic and the drive was luckily recovered...
had he made any attempt to do something with the drive...he probably would
have been out of luck.
But it's amazing what happens when one panics.
One day I was working in a nuclear power plant *no it was not an emergency
situation*
but I was under an extreme amount of pressure. We were way behind on a major
project
and most of the company where I was employed for was working 17 hours a day
, 6 days a week to get the
project completed ASAP. (BTW: The delay was not our company's fault, it was
the utility itself, but that's another story.)
Anyway...I had to call my office from a pay phone. (This was back in the
days when cell phones were dash-board mounted)
Well, as I was saying...I was so tired and over-wrought that my mind blanked
out entirely and I could not remember my phone card credit
number... The only thing that entered my mind was our family's telephone
number back from when I was a kid!!!
Something I doubt I'd ever been able to recall if I tried!
