Comments on: My first experience with data recovery https://dfarq.homeip.net/my-first-experience-with-data-recovery/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-first-experience-with-data-recovery David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Wed, 23 Mar 2022 13:19:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Dominik https://dfarq.homeip.net/my-first-experience-with-data-recovery/#comment-8865 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:55:09 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=4918#comment-8865 Oh, boy, does that bring back some stories.

The worst was when I was working retail (Software Etc., Assistant Store Manager) when a mother brought in her son and her son’s disk (the 3 1/2″ variety). I was informed that the young man had done his homework but when mom went to work to print the documents, nothing was there.

After verifying that this was a Mac disk, I grabbed my Mac-Proficient part-timer who happened to be in that night, he grabbed one of the better disk recovery packages, and started to go to work on the disk. Meanwhile, I stood back and explained the process to the mother, and tried to find out what had happened.

After about fifteen minutes of her insisting nothing went wrong, I had her go back over everything she’d done. “He gave me the disk and I put it on the fridge so I wouldn’t forget it.”

“Wait a minute – you what?”
“I put it on the fridge.” The son is now sitting there with his head in his palms, his 20+ pages of homework flashing before his eyes.
“How did you put it on the fridge?”
“I used a magnet, silly.”
“But these are computer disks…”
“I know, I had to use the BIG Magnet…”

]]> By: Tom G. https://dfarq.homeip.net/my-first-experience-with-data-recovery/#comment-8844 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:49:22 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=4918#comment-8844 A few years ago I had a guy call me up and ask if I could recover some images from a Secure Digital media card. He said that there were some files on the card, but he couldn’t see any images when he placed the card in his system now. I told him to bring it by and I’d see what I could do. The next day when I came into the office I found an envelope with a note attached to the outside stating this was the SD card in question. I went to remove the staple that attached the note to the envelope and it wouldn’t come out. I then realized that in the process of stapling the note to the envelope, he had put the staple through the middle of the SD Card. Needless to say, I didn’t have any luck recovering any images.

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