FabSwingers.com forum: HELP WANTED !!!!!!!

By *ugarboobs2009 OP Couple
over a year ago

chesterfield

Is there anyone out there who could help me

mi looking for someone who can find data on the hard drive ( is it true that you can find data on the hard drive even if its been deleted of the pc )

its a long story but it involves my soon to be ex husband and a the dominatrix he had an affair with

lets just say it's my time now !!!!!!!

p.s I would be sooo grateful

hugs 'n' kisses

sugar

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

" Is there anyone out there who could help me

mi looking for someone who can find data on the hard drive ( is it true that you can find data on the hard drive even if its been deleted of the pc )

its a long story but it involves my soon to be ex husband and a the dominatrix he had an affair with

lets just say it's my time now !!!!!!!

p.s I would be sooo grateful

hugs 'n' kisses

sugar"

You would need to take it to someone who can retrieve it.

It's not possible by a lay person on a pc at home.

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By *emima_puddlefuckCouple
over a year ago

hexham

Ok not computer help but if he is soon to be divorced,why not let it go Moving on can happen then and you will feel better.

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By *ingleguy1973Man
over a year ago

peterborough

google "data recovery" and you will find people who do it but it can be quite expensive... i got quoted £500 to retrieve data from a damaged harddrive, and that was a few years ago.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You can find data thats been deleted but its a big job and only an expert could do that,so may cost a bit to retrive the data

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

" Is there anyone out there who could help me

mi looking for someone who can find data on the hard drive ( is it true that you can find data on the hard drive even if its been deleted of the pc )

its a long story but it involves my soon to be ex husband and a the dominatrix he had an affair with

lets just say it's my time now !!!!!!!

p.s I would be sooo grateful

hugs 'n' kisses

sugar"

As long as it hasn't been overwritten or the drive damaged its possible to do it your self with the right software. Google 'bitmart' they have a program that will do it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There is several free programs on download.com that you can scan a disk for deleted data, they are fairly simple though and won't retrieve data if it was deleted a while back and them sectors on the drive have been written over again.

If it was deleted ages ago then like the others of said, a specialist would be needed and very costly.

Tony

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By *ugarboobs2009 OP Couple
over a year ago

chesterfield

thanks for that hun but i just want whats owed to me alot of lies have been told

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

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I don't think settlements are reached by who wronged who so it might be a costly exercise for no gain

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"thanks for that hun but i just want whats owed to me alot of lies have been told "

are you willing to pay all that money to "prove" that you were lied to??? i cant help but agree with earlier posts and to let him go. point scoring just becomes messy. take care x

ps fab avatar

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By *ominantPerv85Man
over a year ago

Maidstone

Simply put, yes it can be done, unless the hard drive is physically destroyed.

It was simply deleted, and the 'recycle bin' emptied, it is easy to recover, and as stated above, there are numerous free programs that will do that for you.

However, as also mentioned, if it is from some time back, then it gets more and more tricky.

So basically, as I see it, you can download some programs to see if you can recover it yourself. If you can't, then you need to make the decision between paying a fair amount of money (£400+) for a company to TRY and recover it, without any guarantees they will be able to, OR, just to accept that the data is lost....

Sorry I can't be of anymore help....

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By *ensualfire88Man
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"I don't think settlements are reached by who wronged who so it might be a costly exercise for no gain

Correct. It's pretty much a 'no blame' culture these days, though there are exceptions.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

PS, I assume you checked the recycle bin first.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"thanks for that hun but i just want whats owed to me alot of lies have been told "

keep your dignity.... you will feel a lot better for it in the long run rather than trying to prove who wronged who ????

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

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http://www.fabswingers.com/forum/feedback/14562

Only these links allowed please x

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By *i 1 Get 1 FreeCouple (MM)
over a year ago

birmingham

It's human nature wanting to punish / pay back those who've hurt us, only you know your capabilities, if you have the capability to rise above making such allegations / statements, in the long term you'll feel much better knowing you didn't have to resort to such tactics.

What's done is done, no one ever wins in “she done this / he done that / etc., etc., ”

Good luck.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"http://www.fabswingers.com/forum/feedback/14562

Only these links allowed please x"

Ah ok, apparently I can't direct link to what may help you , so instead google for "NTFS Undelete", the top entry should help you. If your file system is FAT32 then google for "File Scavenger" if the first one won't work with it.

Right click on your disc and select properties to find the file system it is using.

If the file has been overwritten then it is gone. It all depends on how full the disc was/is.

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By *he Happy ManMan
over a year ago

Merseyside

" Is there anyone out there who could help me

mi looking for someone who can find data on the hard drive ( is it true that you can find data on the hard drive even if its been deleted of the pc )

its a long story but it involves my soon to be ex husband and a the dominatrix he had an affair with

lets just say it's my time now !!!!!!!

p.s I would be sooo grateful

hugs 'n' kisses

sugar

You would need to take it to someone who can retrieve it.

It's not possible by a lay person on a pc at home. "

It is possible. It is very easy

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By *he Happy ManMan
over a year ago

Merseyside

Go to google and search for recover lost data. You will find a program that will help you out.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"http://www.fabswingers.com/forum/feedback/14562

Only these links allowed please x"

My bad, I thought it was just paid sites we can't link to. sowwy

Tony

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By *ugarboobs2009 OP Couple
over a year ago

chesterfield

thanks for all your help

i have found what i needed xxxxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ive sent you a pm with a link for a guy on here who is a pc nerd, uh gentleman

he can help you, fixed mine i can tell you, faster than a speeding bullet now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"thanks for that hun but i just want whats owed to me alot of lies have been told "

well worth the investment then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It's human nature wanting to punish / pay back those who've hurt us, only you know your capabilities, if you have the capability to rise above making such allegations / statements, in the long term you'll feel much better knowing you didn't have to resort to such tactics.

What's done is done, no one ever wins in “she done this / he done that / etc., etc., ”

Good luck. "

This is so true and if you have kids they can often get drawn in and hurt in the process. I am so glad I did not fall into this trap and now my kids are happily married, even if I didn't even get what was mine, it doesn't matter. I am content.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

" Is there anyone out there who could help me

mi looking for someone who can find data on the hard drive ( is it true that you can find data on the hard drive even if its been deleted of the pc )

its a long story but it involves my soon to be ex husband and a the dominatrix he had an affair with

lets just say it's my time now !!!!!!!

p.s I would be sooo grateful

hugs 'n' kisses

sugar

You would need to take it to someone who can retrieve it.

It's not possible by a lay person on a pc at home.

It is possible. It is very easy"

How dare you contradict me! Tell us how then.... C'mon.

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By *arambarMan
over a year ago

swindon

"You would need to take it to someone who can retrieve it.

It's not possible by a lay person on a pc at home.

It is possible. It is very easy

How dare you contradict me! Tell us how then.... C'mon."

Hope you don't mind me butting in but I thought I'd answer this.

There are various tools available that can be used for home use, e.g. Recuva, PhotoRec, FileRestorePlus, etc... These have certain limitations which mean they're not destined for computer forensic use, but for a home user trying to salvage their MP3s or digital photos they are fairly straight-forward to use.

As has kinda been mentioned in this thread already, the way that an operating system handles deleting files isn't actually how most people think it works.

Briefly, when a file is deleted by a user (this is different to put in the Recycle Bin) all that really happens is that the operating system makes the space that was previously allocated to that file available for other files to use - but it doesn't really delete the contents it just makes it available so it can be overwritten.

As long as the file hasn't been overwritten, it can quite easily be retrieved. Even if part of the file has been overwritten, it can, with varying levels of success, be retrieved and depending upon what the file was, can sometimes be still accessible.

For this reason, it's recommended to not use a hard drive you're trying to restore data from so as to minimise the chances of the files being overwritten and to increase your chances of successfully retrieving the data. That's why when we confiscate a user's PC at work if they're suspected of doing something illegal and will clone it exactly as it is, and then work from the cloned machine.

*** Feel free to stop here if you're bored already ***

A hard disk is made up of cylinders, platters, tracks and sectors. Each hard drive has multiple platters, which are referred to as a cylinder. Within each platter there are tracks which are concentric circles placed on the surface of each platter, much like the rings of a tree. Within each track there are tiny sectors which are used to store the data that make up your files, and each sector is 512 bytes in size. Because hard disks are now measured in gigabytes and terabytes, there are tens of millions of these sectors on your hard drive.

Different operating systems use slightly different methods for writing data to the sectors, e.g. Windows uses the NTFS file system, which itself uses things called 'extents' to manage which sectors are used and to try to eliminate fragmentation of the hard drive (where a file is randomly scattered across many different sectors) in an attempt to improve performance. The HFS+ file system on Apple Mac works in a similar way it just implements it slightly differently, as do the various file systems used on Linux, e.g. ext3, ext4, ReiserFS, etc...

All operating systems, however, keep a record of which sectors of the disk are allocated, i.e. have already been written by files that need to be kept, and which are not allocated and can be written to. In Windows (or rather the NTFS file system) this is called the MFT, or Master File Table. Previous versions of Windows used something called a File Allocation Table, or FAT. The HFS+ file system uses something called an Allocation File and a Catalog File to do the same thing.

When a user deletes a file, as already mentioned, the file isn't really deleted - it's just the reference to that file in the MFT or the Allocation & Catalog Files that gets reset. There can also be other changes, for example, in FAT32 file systems, when a file is deleted the operating system also changes the first character of the filename with the hex byte E5.

Essentially, the "undelete" applications work by ignoring what the operating system says should be stored on the hard drive and instead interrogate each sector themselves and try to piece together what the contents are, and then allow you to take a copy of any deleted files and restore them to another volume.

Blimey, that ended up being a lot longer than I had anticipated. I'm not really a nerd though - honest

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That pretty much covers it!

Also the old story of having to wipe your hard drive multiple times to get rid of the data is no longer true. Pretty much one write over destroys the previous data. This is thanks to perpendicular recording of the magnetic field and been more tightly packed together.

If you do want to get rid of all data on a HDD use dban (google for it). Its free and will overwrite the drive x times. If you want to be certain, do what we do, sledge hammer and industrial drill through the platters. Or use a thermite charge!

for SSD (like memory cards for cameras) just quick format it then fill it with massive random files (I had a program that does this), or smash the chip(s) with a hammer.

PS: I have everything backed up to 3 devices, once your holiday pics are gone, they are usually gone for good nowerdays.

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