Q. I want to give my laptop away, but I am a bookkeeper and I don't want to leave any financial information on the HD. I store all my documents on a server, so I don't think that is an issue. But, I'd also like to remove the "name" that is located in the user directory. I don't want to reformat the HD. Thank you.
A. To really get rid of something on your hard drive you have to go way beyond pressing the delete key.
Joan Feldman, president of Seattle-based Computer Forensics Inc., explains that when you delete a file, the computer's operating system marks the file with a symbol and, essentially, removes it from view. If you did a search for the file, it wouldn't show up, but it's still on the hard drive until it's been written over -- several times -- by other files.
Formatting the hard drive does not securely erase data and if you are giving away your hard drive, data recovery experts may be able to extract personal information from your hard drive. So if the data has to be permanently erased, an Eraser program can be used, which rewrites the hard drive with random data, so that the data stored originally on the hard drive cannot be recovered. A wipe program will overwrite with random data 7 to 35 times, so that no personal data can be retrieved.
Joan Feldman, president of Seattle-based Computer Forensics Inc., explains that when you delete a file, the computer's operating system marks the file with a symbol and, essentially, removes it from view. If you did a search for the file, it wouldn't show up, but it's still on the hard drive until it's been written over -- several times -- by other files.
Formatting the hard drive does not securely erase data and if you are giving away your hard drive, data recovery experts may be able to extract personal information from your hard drive. So if the data has to be permanently erased, an Eraser program can be used, which rewrites the hard drive with random data, so that the data stored originally on the hard drive cannot be recovered. A wipe program will overwrite with random data 7 to 35 times, so that no personal data can be retrieved.
is it difficult to replace an old router?
Q. i have a router and i think its very old and needs to be replaced because when i stream audio,video, or download, i lose internet easily no matter on wat computer, as long as ur on the connection. is it hard to replace the old router and get a new one ? cuz i was told to get a new broadband router would fix my solution?
A. what kind or router do you have now
Its not hard but I would have someone help you..
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Its not hard but I would have someone help you..
I can help you by remote at no charge, give me a call !!!
Y-Wait System Services Inc.
Houston, TX - 832-329-0552
http://www.ywaitsystemservices.com
Contact*: Dan Ramsey
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I accidently deleted 60gb of my girlfriends files, is there any way to get them back?
Q. They arent in the recycle bin, they are gone, but would a system restore bring them back?
A. NO
NO
NO
Do not use the System Restore for recovering the files...this may destroy all chances of recovering the files...
There are some good options out there for file recovery (no, not PC Tune Up...checked the website and nothing is mentioned about file recover programs. If anything, you're likely to launch a defrag prematurely, which would eliminate any chance of recovering these files.
Why should you not defrag at this time...simple. When a file is deleted, it really isn't deleted from your drive. Instead, a special flag is set on the file information tagging it as deleted. Windows (and all other operating systems) see this flag and consider the file deleted (and not displaying it as a result). The file space on the hard disk is now available for another program to write over with it's own information files.
This is the key point...the file is there UNTIL something writes over top of it. If you defrag your drive, most, if not all deleted files will be overwritten, rendering them unrecoverable.
If you run either of these previously mentioned utilities (or several other shareware and commercial apps available) you should have reasonably good success at recovering most of the files.
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http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeljmclaughlin
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File Recover 6.2 for Windows
http://www.pctools.com/file-recover/?ref=google_fr&gclid=CJCAkcLBtZMCFQS7sgodHmW9CQ
File Recovery 4 (freeware) ... NOTE:::: NOT FOR VISTA
http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/filerecovery.html
PC INSPECTOR⢠File Recovery 4.x
http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1
ParetoLogic Data Recovery
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NO
NO
Do not use the System Restore for recovering the files...this may destroy all chances of recovering the files...
There are some good options out there for file recovery (no, not PC Tune Up...checked the website and nothing is mentioned about file recover programs. If anything, you're likely to launch a defrag prematurely, which would eliminate any chance of recovering these files.
Why should you not defrag at this time...simple. When a file is deleted, it really isn't deleted from your drive. Instead, a special flag is set on the file information tagging it as deleted. Windows (and all other operating systems) see this flag and consider the file deleted (and not displaying it as a result). The file space on the hard disk is now available for another program to write over with it's own information files.
This is the key point...the file is there UNTIL something writes over top of it. If you defrag your drive, most, if not all deleted files will be overwritten, rendering them unrecoverable.
If you run either of these previously mentioned utilities (or several other shareware and commercial apps available) you should have reasonably good success at recovering most of the files.
Michael McLaughlin @ Iron Oak IT inc., Calgary, AB
http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeljmclaughlin
http://www.ironoakit.com
File Recover 6.2 for Windows
http://www.pctools.com/file-recover/?ref=google_fr&gclid=CJCAkcLBtZMCFQS7sgodHmW9CQ
File Recovery 4 (freeware) ... NOTE:::: NOT FOR VISTA
http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/filerecovery.html
PC INSPECTOR⢠File Recovery 4.x
http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1
ParetoLogic Data Recovery
http://www.pcperformancetools.com/recover-lost-files-email-data-pictures.htm?gclid=CI_tktrBtZMCFRYesgodGxHeDQ
ParetoLogic Data Recovery
http://transitional.undelete-all.com/related/english/undelete/
Active Undelete
http://adv.active-undelete.com/?gclid=CO3T1I7CtZMCFRUasgodpi_JCw
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