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Data Recovery - Put to the Test

Posted by Hemos on from the how-to-recover-nicely dept.

Kurtis Kronk @TheTechLounge writes "Today we get a close look at perhaps the leader of this industry, ACR Data Recovery. I worked closely with Doug Roberts of ACR to find the answers to questions you might ask. Not only did I ask Doug an array of questions, I also received a sample of their Media Tools Professional 2003 to see for myself if it really works, and moreover, how well. Check out this article for the full story."

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  1. Data Recovery? by dotwaffle · · Score: 0, Funny

    Is this STILL necessary? Have we not got used to the idea of backups yet? REALLY!

    1. Re:Data Recovery? by Zebbers · · Score: 2, Funny

      software theft....hah

    2. Re:Data Recovery? by ymgve · · Score: 2, Funny

      So what you are saying is that, if somebody were to delete everything on one array, the deletion will in real time be mirrored to the other array? I certainly hope that is not your only backup strategy...

  2. NO! by Kedisar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not the pr0n stash! *panics* Now if I can think of a way to lie to the Data Recoverers and say I dunno how 60gbs of pr0n got on my computer... Must have it back though!

    1. Re:NO! by gl4ss · · Score: 2, Funny

      you can use the network as a storage for that.. just upload any pron clip to usenet/whatever-p2p and it'll roam the networks forever!

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      world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
  3. Data Recovery... by Kandel · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whenever I think of Data Recovery, I always get this mental image of a hard drive in an operating table, and all these geeky guys with glasses and long white coats poking and prodding it with scalpels.

    1. Re:Data Recovery... by BrynM · · Score: 2, Funny
      Funny, I always get an image of a bunch of 0s and 1s at an Alchoholics Anonymous meeting.

      0: "Hi, My name's 0 and I'm a recovering datum."
      Crowd: "Hi 0."

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      US Democracy:The best person for the job (among These pre-selected choices...)
  4. Hey! by Lord+Grey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe SCO can use these guys to find their code in the Linux kernel! Then they wouldn't have to resort to displaying random functions in slide presentations and waving their hands a lot (presumably to dissipate the ensuing stink).

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    // Beyond Here Lie Dragons
  5. Time Recovery? by Ageless · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do they sell any software I can use to recover the time I wasted reading that "article"?

    Next time just send it out as spam so my filter will eat it.

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  7. Re:my experience... by javatips · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow... That's some HUGE document you lost. At 4KB per fragment times 50 millions that's 200K millions bytes that's a 200GB document. I'm not even certain that NTFS can have that a large document in one file (unless it's block size is greater than 4KB, but that would also mean that the document would be larger than my estimate - which is already on the lower size by assuming that each fragment is only 4KB!)

    You know. You should NOT write everything in the same document ;-)