"mr5" <mr5.1zrni3@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
news:mr5.1zrni3@pcbanter.net...
>
> Hello,
>
> I am confronting the big problem in my life 
> Yesterday, I cut important folders from my NTFS disk to a FAT32 disk.
> After work, I went to my home and opened FAT32 disk ... all folders
> which I cut from NTFS disk disappeared monstrously!!! I had the same
> problem last year but I can not remember why I could restore the data.
>
> Anyone can help me? Thank you.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> --
> mr5
If there is one thing I try to impress upon the owner/user of every computer
I work on, it's this. You never, never ever cut and paste an important file.
After the file has been copied to the new location, the file is
automatically deleted from it's original location.
You always want to use *copy* and paste. Then, when you know that the file
has successfully copied (that means you checked it), go back and delete it
from it's original location. I can not even begin to tell you how many times
people get burned by this.
As to why you got a bad copy? Who knows! Maybe a power brownout, a power
spike, defective media or maybe the gods just don't like you.
But now YOU have to deal with it. I hope that the computer where the files
initially were residing has not had mush activity since this happened. NO
activity (the computer is off) would be even more advantageous. Get hold of
a quality file recovery program and see if you can recover the files from
the original computer. I use EasyRecovery Professional from www.ontrack.com
with great success. It is *very* expensive but has never let me down.
You can also send in the drive to one of many recovery organizations. Again,
very expensive. My son just paid over $1200 to recover his wedding/honeymoon
photo's from a failed hard drive.
Whatever you do, please learn from this experience!
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Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
