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whoa nellie... assistance, anyone?
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Posted by: gatormigraine
Hi friends:
I won't go into exhaustive background material - if you want to read about the original incident, check out this thread.
In short, due to some sort of damage to my 40 GB Maxtor hard drive, all of my files from the last 5 years or so disappeared one day.
This evening, out of desperation, I opened my drive to discover 10 bazillion weird files and a handful of directories that were not there last time I checked. Inside one of these strange directories, it appears that my 37 GB or so of lost files has REAPPEARED. I recently tried Norton Utilities in a last-ditch attempt to recover my data, and although the drive appeared too damaged to allow Norton to fully run, SOMEHOW it ran well enough to make this stuff appear.
I'm almost too nervous to do anything right now. I'm afraid I'm going to lose this stuff again.
Anyhow, all of my recovered files (and there are tens of thousands of them) have lost their original Windows long filenames. While this is a major inconvenience, I suppose I'm better off having all my data with new, truncated names rather than no data at all.
Okay - finally I'm going to pitch my two questions for the day:
1) Is it possible that, somewhere, there exists a piece of software that can restore my long filenames? (they weren't backed up or anything)
2) Is it possible that, somewhere, there exists a piece of software that can take this 37 GB of recovered stuff, and divide it into 700 MB chunks so I can burn this stuff onto CD-R's before the NEXT disaster befalls me?
Thank you once again!
Gator
Posted by: redwench
just start burning files, use a calculator if you need to, although the burning software should stop it if it wont fit on the disk. of course, if you have another hard drive, and you probably should, just move em.
there are lots of recovery programs available online free. once you have all your files backed up, start trying them. they may not restore the names, but as long as you can access the files, you can rename them manually.
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