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Most DR utilities will unearth every thing it finds, very often unearthed are many files, same name, some variance in size, different dates and hours, from an original to many copies. That is one reason for the huge number of findings.

A question for Jared: "...files are mostly duplicated with .Id_XXXXX..." Jared, is it possible that the recovery picked up all previous deleted versions along with the most recent version of the documents? For example, I edited my advice.htm three times this week, both deleted copies and the...

Jared Thor-Hammer, did you put the hammer down? :)

I'm real new to this donor drive concept, in layman and befinners' terms, how and why does it work?

Tell me more about your shorting tool, what it does and why -- I'd like to learn from you! :)

And, don't forget the room has to be larger than life to include the camera crew.

I'm not sure that cheaper (on one hand), (and on the other hand) reliability , versioning, sureness of backup operations, sureness of restoration (whether a whole hard-drive, a NAS or RAID, a particular partition, a particular set of folders and files, etc., can exist in the same sentence.

Admin/mods -- this is one of my worst threads ever! If you want to close and archive this thread, please be my guest!

+1 jared's idea of a full backup! Having backups saved me several times from having to reinstall, rebuild, reload, reconfigure when something went very wrong.

Sub par does not necessarily mean scammer; I've run across businesses that make mistakes and do a poor job, and I've run across businesses that only desire to make money and purposely do a poor job.

In other places I've been parroting the advice of making a clone or full image of the source HD onto any reliable target HD before doing one of two things: 1) send source HD to a DR company/specialist; or 2) Start DIY DR. If a person has this clone, that does lessen the data loss impact of bad...

I want to acquire more knowledge, I don't have a problem; I'm hoping others will give me the benefit of some of their experiences. :)

SMART, sector re-allocation...imminent HD failure; cloning or full imaging time One set of famous buzz word, jargon, used by newbies and intermediate end-users: "SMART", "sector re-allocation", "sector allocation..." and so on. I realize that although this is hard-drive in the process of...

One example of buzz words, jargon...courtesy of Dr_Luke (Bold & underline mine; bold I call jargon, underline represents the physical damage.) http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id- ... cters.html ...you (Roland) need to understand the problem before you can offer a solution. The drive spins...

Buzz words, jargon, for common HD physical failures As a beginner of data restoration and data recovery, I would like to have a quick-list/terse description, from your experiences, of the jargon, buzz-words, used by end-users, newbie to intermediate, that often indicate to you common imminent...

I realize that I am just a beginner in the world of Data Recovery! In layman's terms, what are the main features and benefits of using high-end, high quality, data recovery imager software/hardware?

First Responses before, during, after OS or Data loss crises. ** Those with Dynamic, RAID, SSD, or 3GB+ setups -- seek advice from those specialists. ** A few good "first responses" PRIOR to any OS and/or Data loss crisis AND A few good "first responses" AFTER any OS and/or Data loss crisis --...

How are those negative done? Are there any solutions against such things?

Because of the wealth of information provided by data recovery folks in numerous forums on The 'Net, I have these two threads [along with a few others elsewhere] for the purpose of passing on your wisdom and experience, passing on your advice and ideas. http://collegecafe.fr.yuku.com/topic/13...

Presently, just learning more and more about individual and small business data recovery; however, I would like learn more about Forensic imaging -- to better appreciate what youse all are doing.

Agreed! I'm not sure what the differences are; I can guess, however, I would rather read posts from those in the know :)

As an intermediate backup/restore person, as a beginner data recovery [first response level] person, I am interested in learning more about forensic imaging. Obviously FI is different, more complicated, than full imaging with Macrium Reflect or Imaging for Windows, correct? I'd like to learn...

If the HD has no physical failure, if the HD has no "logical" failure, if all you did was delete several important files, and, if you did not, prior to or after posting this thread "try everything known to man", all you need to do is usb or dvd boot MiniTool Power Data Recovery, portable...

You might have to make a usb or dvd boot with MiniTool Power Data Recovery portable version on it. The less Windows is used, the better off the undeletion/recovery efforts will be. Actually, there are a great number of data recovery utilities, Restorer, Stellar, R-Studio, and so many more...

Jared, if I give you full credit at the beginning and at the end, may I quote your post in 2-3 forums and in college cafe where my thread is the strongest?

Thanks for the heads-up, LarrySabo! I fixed the original link :)

I found General Discussion & Off-Topic forum, would that be the best place for this thread?

I posted this snippit, I'm asking for input from DR specialists to help me understand the whats and whys of an end-user doing the thing right before shipping HD to a DR company. Long story short: -- during a crisis, an end-user wants his/her Data (and/or OS) back -- some data recovery folks...

I read elsewhere an article concerning Spinrite [and other similar products] should not be used for data recovery, such are not data recovery utilities, they are at best -- hardware head re-aligners, sector scrubbers [returning logical bad sectors into the use-pool]. Sorry about my phrasing, I...

I recommend the existing good hard-drives and all good partitions have unique names. That way, regardless of usb or dvd or internal boot -- one always knows which hard-drive(s) and which partitions not to touch. Believe me, an end-user does not always remember the drive letters have been...

Thanks for posting this! I learned quite a bit from you.

The way I understand his question, maybe this rewording is more accurate: "...After installing Windows 7 from a usb stick, after allowing Windows to format the HD, what is the best way to recover data?" For the benefit of newcomers to data recovery... If the Windows 7 formatting was a full...