Hey everyone.. Its been a while..

[Bick vire]

Hey everyone. It’s been a long time since I posted anything.

I’m posting this thread to share something bad that happened to me recently… I’m hoping maybe I’ll feel better after sharing....

My cousin, who lives in another country, came to my house in his vacation. and took my laptop to play games while I wasn’t home. I usually store everything I write in Notepad. I had written and saved “The Lost Stone....pact” along with 2–3 more stories (about 100,000 words in total, maybe more).

That mf deleted everything…

When I asked why he deleted them, he said he didn’t do anything and only played games. Maybe It's automatically deleted... blah blah blah...
I know he’s lying, but I can’t say sh** to him because I don’t have proof...

I tried a lot to restore the files, but no use. Since then, my mood has been messed up. I can’t even describe how I’m feeling.

It would have been fine if he had only deleted “The Lost Stone and The Pact”—I remember everything I wrote in that one. But in the other stories, I don’t remember everything. I only recall the beginnings, and that’s it.

Maybe frm tomorrow I’ll start rewriting “The Lost Pact.”

 

[Genly]

Ow, that must hurt. Sorry to hear that.

Maybe people on this group who are computer experts could weigh in here, but the first thing that I would do would be to take the laptop to one of those places where they fix laptops, to see if they can recover the files.

 

[Bick vire]

I would do would be to take the laptop to one of those places where they fix laptops, to see if they can recover the files.

I already tried that but no luck..

 

[pmmg]

I doubt there is much I could do to help, and given the number of variables, I dont wish to write out a texts book worth of stuff. I will say, with lost of missing data, capturing the hard drive at the earliest possible incident is ideal. If too much time passes, it becomes less and less likely anything can be saved. Once the Hard Drive starts getting used, it runs the risk of over-writing stuff, and then it is lost for sure. A first step for this is to get a second hard-drive and make a forensic clone, or forensic image of the drive. I would hope the company you took it to did that.

Some places might just run an undelete app on it, and maybe find stuff, but sometimes things can be recovered forensically that cannot be recovered with simply undelete stuff.

If you drive is a chip drive or an SSD drive, as is likely in todays age, recovery is made harder. If its an older spindle drive, there is a better chance of recovery. Good luck with it.

I would add, there probably is not a writer anywhere who has not lost something due to technology along the way. It happens and you do recover.

 

[Bick vire]

Some places might just run an undelete app on it, and maybe find stuff, but sometimes things can be recovered forensically that cannot be recovered with simply undelete stuff.

Ohhh… yeah, you’re right—they didn’t use any hard drive. Maybe there’s still hope left. Im heading to the store right now.

 

[pmmg]

If you have a second drive. Ftk imager is free and can make a forensic image. Never work on the image. Always copy it first to preserve its state.

There are free programs you can use to look for lost or partial files. Autopsy is free software that will let you search the image. But its slow.

 

[Bick vire]

Ohhh… yeah, you’re right—they didn’t use any hard drive. Maybe there’s still hope left. Im heading to the store right now.

Just came back from store... No luck.... He's said it's been 1week since that happened so recovery is not possible...
It’s clearly his fault—he should have taken care of it when I first went to the store....

Well From now I'll store in Google or somtin..

 

[pmmg]

Is what it is. Cant fix it now. But better than the stories, is the ability to make them. You can make more. Good luck.