Insidiator Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 Argh! Fuck! Shit! Motherfucker! I hate my fucking impatience and my fucking luck! I did a scan on my hard drive to check for unused temp files. Some show up and without a second though I click "delete". By the way, a while ago I had designated the Temp folder in my second partition (the non - windows partition) as the Temp folder for mozilla AND windows. Also, I store most of my web downloads there. To cut a long story short, I JUST LOST 45GB of videos, pdfs, images, games AND ALL OF MY FALLOUT AND OBLIVION MODS, RESOURCES ETC. I managed to recover some of them with a freeware recovery program but, the... Ahem. The recovery program overwrote my "Check again" text, a .txt that I used to write down any and all links of web sites I wanted to check again/and or later. IMDB links to obscure movies that I should check out later. Old series from my childhood that I had remembered and managed to track down. Awesome porn that I couldn't download. Political sites with excellent articles. Video clips of songs that I loved but had forgotten. Anything you can imagine. And now it's all lost and my mind not being what it used to be, some of these info will be lost forever. You know what I mean; the song whose rythm you remember but can't recall any of the lyrics or title or band. The movie you had watched as a kid, from which you only remember a line. The awesome body replacer that you can't find again. Fuck it. I know all of this is not your problem, but I just had to share it. If only I had been a little more cautious...
daz Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 I feel for you there. I nearly lost my drive a few days back, and hate to think of all the links and resources that would go.
Ark of Truth Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 This would be a perfect example of why one should store mods to a external hard or pace the download folder as a hard drive which is not on the primary drive.
Mashi Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 Yep that sucks. But, just so you don't feel bad, about two years ago. I managed to fully format, partition wipe, and create a new partition on a drive that had pretty much the same thing, plus 500gb worth of stored mods, steam game backups, and a bunch of other stuff. Backup's help, they do. But you can only do so much. In my own case, I was doing everything from CLI. And had popped some anti-migraine medication, and wasn't thinking so clearly. So, it was a combination of a bunch of really stupid things leading to a catastrophe of epic proportions. What I was trying to do was build a nice little bootable flash drive with windows7 on it(back before MS released their USB tool). To stop me from doing stupid stuff, I built a dirt cheap NAS box. Toss four 2TB drives in it in Raid 10, and now I have a nice safety net.
johneb Posted June 22, 2012 Posted June 22, 2012 Before I got the machine I have now...the one I did have bit the dust taking all my shit with it. It may have already been dead but I still axed it and blazed it up. all my stuff was still gone though.
Guest Posted June 22, 2012 Posted June 22, 2012 Damn dude, that really sucks Something similar happened to me a few years back. Like other people have said, backups are essential. Hopefully this is a learning experience for ya.
nonusnomeni Posted June 22, 2012 Posted June 22, 2012 6800 pages a4 for translate 5100done hard die do i fee lucky
FusRoDah Posted June 22, 2012 Posted June 22, 2012 I kinda know that feel. My PC keeps making backups on the D:\ so I have to keep removing them since they devour room for useful stuff. However, I accidently deleted too much. So that's when I lost all my Music, Homework, Which is probably the worst thing I lost, and (Pony-)Pictures. Luckily that wasn't my main disk so I lost less than you. Sorry for your loss. Did you Try Getdataback for NTFS or something? My brother said it should work, but all I got back was corrupted files. If you do it soon enough after deletion, it might work. EDIT: Whoops, you already did that.
Insidiator Posted June 22, 2012 Author Posted June 22, 2012 My main problem was that I had made a mistake from the beginning. I had partitioned my hard drive in two and the drive on which windows is located had filled up completely. So, in a desperate quest for space, I assigned folders in the secondary drive as temp folders. It was a temporary solution, until I could buy a more accomodating hard drive. But... Btw, I used a freeware called Recuva which did a pretty good job. I got most of the hard-to-find files back, I'll download the LL stuff again manually and as for the precious remind-myself-stuff.txt, well, I'll slowly and painfully rebuild.
Kashked Posted June 24, 2012 Posted June 24, 2012 Happened to me too, about half a year ago. A god-damned pain to put it lightly. It does however raise an interesting point about the reliability of our current mediums... Reserachers working on the "arab spring" uprisings estimate that about 85% (I seem to remember, could have been 75% or something, so don't quote me on that) of all relevant materials are already gone, since they were on the internet. I do not envy the historians of the far future trying to study early 21st century history, most of our culture is simply not stored in a sustainable way, not the mention the problems with computer programs that aren't backwards-compatible (I think the term is, when you can't use a current program to read older files.) But I digress... As I said, been there, done that. Luckily the most prized thing I lost was my Mass Effect 1-2 savegame. My computer was mostly filled with junk...
movomo Posted July 6, 2012 Posted July 6, 2012 Goddamnit! What can I say otherwise? Fuck. Steam deleted all my games. Actually I decided to delete steam and reinstall it because of some errors, so I did. Then it deleted whole steam folder, including all of my oblivion mods, fallout and NV mods, skyrim mod and wyre bash packages! There was no local data warning at all. -------------- I'm trying free data recovery utility now... hopefully I didn't panic and never touched my D drive after that. But I'm not even sure if it can completely restore or not... I hate steam. If it doesn't work, well, I'll find crack for my games to avoid connecting steam and next time run my games independently. My life will be much easier.
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