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 Recovering documents
Author:Richard S. Donohue
Date:Tuesday, 12th Jun 2001 12:27
Views:3,640 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)
URL:http://www.freepint.com/go/b10379

To my Brethren and Sisters of the Bar,

I am a struggling young attorney in the States. I have worked hard at acquiring and perfecting "Boiler Plate" forms for my clients. I recently had a virus (even with weekly updates of Norton2001) which forced me to have reformat my hard drive. I thought I had backed up my forms to floppy disks, but all I get is disk not formatted, yet when I check its Properties is either full or just about. I don't know if It is in a FAT32 format, or not. I don;t even know what Fat 32 means unless it is describing my waist. I have been told that some where in an archive or DOS program my files rest. I would like to perform a Lazarian task and raise them from the dead. Is this true, and if so, how does a novice do it? Any help would be appreciated greatly.

Sincerely
Richard S. Donohue Esq.

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  Recovering documents
To my Brethren and Sisters of the Bar, I am a struggling young attorney in the States. I have ...
Richard S. Donohue 12/06/01 12:27 10379
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Hi Rich Cut and paste is a wonderful thing - compose your message in the separate window of your word processor ...
Stuart Cliffe 16/06/01 22:07 10534
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At least one amongst us has seen 'fight club' - but sorry, still no cigar; as with fight club, ...
Stuart Cliffe 16/06/01 01:17 10514
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Thanks, I took your advise and asked my nephew. he suggested doing a file search if I could rember ...
Rich Donohue 16/06/01 12:50 10521
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There is one particularly cruel feature of many virus attack's - that is it installs a routine in the "bootstrap ...
Ian Field 15/06/01 01:19 10471
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Thanks, I think I will send my nephew your response and have him translate what you said. <:) (Dunce Hat) He ...
Rich Donohue 16/06/01 13:01 10522
     Re: Recovering documents
The dbx files are almost certainly database files, the full suite of Norton Utilities should include a utility for rebuilding ...
Ian Field 16/06/01 14:03 10526
      Re: Recovering documents
I don't have another hard drive but I do have a Zip drive with Norton zip rescue on one zip ...
Rich Donohue 16/06/01 20:19 10530
       Re: Recovering documents
Buying a new PC could be the easiest way! It's already set up and ready to go - just install ...
Ian Field 16/06/01 22:23 10536
        Re: Recovering documents
This Data or forms are worth at least 500 man hours, so I am ready to do anything.
Rich Donohue 16/06/01 23:48 10540
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Starting with a fresh computer and 'upgrading' it by adding the disk you need to recover is probably the best ...
Ian Field 17/06/01 14:30 10542
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Thanks Ian, Good advise. I guess it’s time to upgrade. I want to give my old machine to a ...
Rich Donohue 17/06/01 15:08 10543
           Re: Recovering documents
Unless you regularly "defragment" the files on your hard-drive, the files will be scattered in tiny pieces all over the ...
Ian Field 17/06/01 16:21 10545
            Re: Recovering documents
Dear Ian, Thank you I will try to follow your advice. Thanks to "Free Pint" ...
Rich Donohue 17/06/01 17:13 10546
             Re: Recovering documents
A final thought - if you can afford to buy an upgrade machine with 2 hard-drives already installed, and an ...
Ian Field 19/06/01 13:04 10594
   Re: Recovering documents
Dear Richard It sounds as though you may have used 'backup' software to get this information onto disk, rather than ...
Stuart Cliffe 12/06/01 16:10 10389
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Dear Stuart, My operating system is Windows 98, My machine is the old one. I ...
Rich Donohue 13/06/01 18:23 10429
     Re: Recovering documents
Hi, Microsoft is notorious for giving beta a bad name. I suggest you uninstall. Then, when Mr. Gates comes out with ...
John N Baird III 15/06/01 21:05 10512
      Re: Recovering documents
Thanks I did Unistall it. My machine speeded up by a factor of 4 at least. Never again ...
Rich Donohue 16/06/01 12:47 10520
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Hi Richard - Curiouser and curiouser as someone or other said.. let's start from scratch. FAT32 refers to a ...
Stuart Cliffe 14/06/01 00:04 10437
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No. What is the second rule?
Rich Donohue 14/06/01 02:06 10439
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Never talk about Computer Club?? :O)
Steve Howard 15/06/01 12:25 10491

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