Recover data
hi ,
Can I get information and the steps and the process, of how to retrieve lost important,
relevant data from my cell phone . Its a blackberry curve 99000. All my sentimental pictures, phone book with important
numbers, saved information I added to notepads ...everything had been wiped.
I did not back up my data because I do not have a memory card? Would be greatly appreciated thanks
Hi and Welcome to the Community!
A sad answer, based on the information you provided. Restore is dependent on a backup being taken before the data is lost. Like insurance, backups are neither a reactive nor an optional activity. Backups also do not require a memory card...see the link in my auto-sig on this post for more information.
Sorry for your loss. Good luck!
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Yanki01 wrote:
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Hi
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You will need to purchase reovery sofware such as such as FileSalvage
http://subrosasoft.com/software/filesalvage
You can download a demo copy that will tell you what it can recover
If you want to recover that you must pay for the software then
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Hi, I was copying some .avi files from my laptop (latest Snow Leopard version) to a Iomega ScreenPlay Pro HD 1Tb and suddenly my electric power shutted down.
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Please help me. It would be very thankful.
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Hi there this is my first question here!
I connected my external hard drive originally formatted on PC on my new Macbook. The first time I connected it I could see all my files but today I connected it and after I couldn't see any file nor even on my pc appears as NO NAME with a different name and nothing on it. I think was reformatted, any help to recover all my data?
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It is unlikely that this will work, because I'm pretty sure that the Apple Store would have tried this. You could try using expensive software to get files off the drive, but it would be risky and the results might not be any good.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4273 -
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I've taken the laptop to the local repair centre and they say they have to reformat and dont do data recovery.
Any suggestions gratefully received.Thanks very much for your replies and apologies for the delay in replying but I have only just managed to get my laptop reconfigured and get back online!!!
I took the laptop to the local Toshiba repair centre and they ran some tests and said that there was no problem with the hardware. However, when I took the machine to a specialist company to get the data recovered they reported 'serious errors in the file allocation table'. They managed to recover most of my data but when the hard drive was re-formatted the problems returned so I had to purchase a new hard drive which wasnt cheap.
My laptop is under warranty and I am a little annoyed that they said there was no problem with the hard drive when there patently was. I would like to reocover the money from Toshiba spent on the drive. (laptop under warranty)
Many thanks in anticipation.
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