Ninja Ubuntu Laptop Vanish: How Can I Remotely Undelete?
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You don't seem to be learning from what you've been doing. This would probably be good for you to read (particularly the first three parts).
Does this Unix guide apply to my Linux Ubuntu? I am not sure what I should read out of that website. I think I kind of understand the summary at the website.
TestDisk 6.11, Data Recovery Utility, April 2009
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
TestDisk is free software, and
comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
Select a media (use Arrow keys, then press Enter):
Disk /dev/sr0 - 212 MB / 202 MiB (RO) - HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4247N
Sudo shows more in Test Disk:
Code:
TestDisk 6.11, Data Recovery Utility, April 2009
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
TestDisk is free software, and
comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
Select a media (use Arrow keys, then press Enter):
Disk /dev/sda - 120 GB / 111 GiB - ATA FUJITSU MHZ2120B
Disk /dev/sr0 - 212 MB / 202 MiB (RO) - HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4247N
Last edited by JoeyArnold; 09-29-2011 at 02:33 AM.
My laptop rewrote itself. That is probably why it can't find anything.
I think it's because my laptop gave itself brand new partitions.
I think you would have to recover the previous partitions before finding the lost data from the lost partitions. It is like my laptop got reincarnated from a guy and into a girl. Of course it is not going to remember that she use to be a guy in her/his previous life.
Therefore I lost around, or less than, 80 GBs of videos, pictures, documents, files.
It was mostly videos: .mp4 mostly
Did you make the videos yourself, or download them off the internet? If you downloaded them, it's probably time to start downloading them all again, and get an external USB drive to use to make backups.
As for the other files, you have to follow the basic rule: if you want to keep it, you need to have at least two copies, which must be on different disks. If you break this rule, you will sooner or later lose some precious data.
If a hard drive keeps working for 10 years with no problems, you're lucky. A hard drive can break at any time from the first time you start using it, with no warning. You cannot rely on one hard drive to keep your important data safe.
Imagine if pieces of paper regularly caught on fire for no reason and with no warning. People probably wouldn't use pen and paper to store important information. But once it's on a computer, a lot of people think their data is safe, despite computer hard drives being pretty much like pieces of paper that suddenly destroy themselves at any time without warning.
My laptop rewrote itself. That is probably why it can't find anything.
I think it's because my laptop gave itself brand new partitions.
I think you would have to recover the previous partitions before finding the lost data from the lost partitions. It is like my laptop got reincarnated from a guy and into a girl. Of course it is not going to remember that she use to be a guy in her/his previous life.
I think you are correct. If it made new partitions and then put new filesystems on them, and put new data in those filesystems, you pretty much have no chance of getting back to how it was before. You'll just have to learn from this painful lesson and take more care to keep extra copies of important data in future.
Did you make the videos yourself, or download them off the internet? If you downloaded them, it's probably time to start downloading them all again, and get an external USB drive to use to make backups.
As for the other files, you have to follow the basic rule: if you want to keep it, you need to have at least two copies, which must be on different disks. If you break this rule, you will sooner or later lose some precious data.
If a hard drive keeps working for 10 years with no problems, you're lucky. A hard drive can break at any time from the first time you start using it, with no warning. You cannot rely on one hard drive to keep your important data safe.
Imagine if pieces of paper regularly caught on fire for no reason and with no warning. People probably wouldn't use pen and paper to store important information. But once it's on a computer, a lot of people think their data is safe, despite computer hard drives being pretty much like pieces of paper that suddenly destroy themselves at any time without warning.
Home videos I was making, things I was writing, things I was drawing.
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