Here's the story.

I teach at a high school and we have deep freeze on our computers. This programs allows users to manipulate settings and use software but will revert to previous settings after each reboot. Great program for sneaky 9th graders. Anyhow I have all my documents/files saved on the thaw space [T:] on the harddrive. (actually even though it is given it's on drive letter I don't think its a separate partition). I went to school today w/ my new 300+gb external drive to do a backup. Well whoop-dy-freaking-do, our IT department has already visited my classroom and the thaw space is EMPTY. FARK!! I called one of the techs and she said they updated deepfreeze from version 5 to 6 and uninstalled 5 then installed 6 and she thought the files would transfer but they did not. I do have a backup of my files but it is 8-9 months old. So all my files for most of this year are gone.

Now the big question.

How can I recover these files?

[Edited on July 9, 2007 at 3:59 PM. Reason : ]

7/9/2007 3:58:59 PM

ask one of your 9th graders, i'm sure they can do it for you

7/9/2007 4:15:48 PM

call IT and tell them your problem (it sounds like your problem is their fault)

in the meantime, do not use your computer, as it will reduce the chances of them being able to recover your files

[Edited on July 9, 2007 at 4:19 PM. Reason : ]

[Edited on July 9, 2007 at 4:19 PM. Reason : ]

7/9/2007 4:17:06 PM

the fault is always gonna come on me because I didn't have a current backup. I've called and she tried something remotely but pretty much sad she's sad and I'm SOL. The only way I can think to get all/part/or some of these files back is a recovery program.

7/9/2007 4:31:47 PM

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"but pretty much said she's sad [that she doesn't know how to do her job] and I'm SOL"

step 1) power off the computer, do not turn it off again until this is resolved
step 2) bitch at your it staff for being incompetent
step 3) have someone run a file recovery program on that hard drive. they'll probably pull the hard drive out of your pc and put it into another computer.

7/9/2007 4:37:06 PM

GetDataBack

7/9/2007 4:42:23 PM

i've been looking at some freeware recovery software and I think I'm gonna run it on the drive this afternoon and see what happens.

7/9/2007 4:42:40 PM

yea there are a ton of recovery programs out there that can get this back

7/9/2007 5:06:57 PM

^^^^ you said it better than i did

7/9/2007 5:14:07 PM

Noen holla back w/ some names of freeware recovery software

7/9/2007 5:17:22 PM

^ You're trying to get your life back. Don't be cheap.

7/9/2007 5:57:06 PM

if the company/school failed to notify you that this was going on, and that it could potentially cause data loss they are at fault and you could consider forcing them to pay for it to be professionally recovered

7/9/2007 6:05:15 PM

disaster has been adverted yet again, thanks to The Wolf Web. All files were recovered.

Thanks to all that helped.

7/10/2007 12:05:44 AM

np, good to hear. have you made a backup yet?

7/10/2007 12:18:09 AM

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/download.htm

7/10/2007 3:30:41 AM

^^^So what did you end up using?

7/10/2007 8:35:33 AM

^getdataback

7/12/2007 3:05:58 PM