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[Bailey58]

Following on from @Figaro, another oh bu**er post.

Some may remember me talking about my old Panasonic recorder amid the Desmond Carrington threads a while back, Here and Here.
http://www.motorhomefun.co.uk/forum/threads/desmond-carrington-rip.146987/
Since then on odd occasions I've managed to copy off some of the programmes and convert them to MP3 files using a re-writable DVD and VLC Media player. It is a bit painstaking and during a confused moment I managed to delete the entire HDD drive instead of the DVD on the recorder.

Googling recovery options last night I found the very firm, at a price, £390 which I can't justify spending on stuff I rarely watch as there's not enough time in the world and £390 is a lot of diesel.
Not the end of the world, it had about 200 titles including 50 odd DC radio shows, but as I still have another 50 or more on the Sky+ box all is not lost. But if I can get it back at a reasonable price, whatever that may be, it would be nice. Anyone used recovery software and recommend something that may work and any knowledge on linking the panasonic hard drive to the laptop would be welcome.

 

[WynandJean]

In the past I have used PC Inspector and been able to recover photos quite successfully. Don't know about anything else it can do as I haven't tried.

Wyn

 

[daveandsan]

Can you physically remove the hard drive, if so you can connect it to your computer with the correct cables and then recover your deleted files with some recovery software.

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[thehutchies]

I have used Recuva many times, with a high success rate:

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[Bailey58]

Can you physically remove the hard drive, if so you can connect it to your computer with the correct cables and then recover your deleted files with some recovery software.

I assume so as the recovery firm require it to do the job, as to linking it to the pc I've no idea without taking the recorder apart. It only happened last night so early days.

 

[daveandsan]

Do you know the make and model of the hard drive.
I have used old computer hard drive as external ones for storage in the past.

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[Bailey58]

Do you know the make and model of the hard drive.
I have used old computer hard drive as external ones for storage in the past.

Not without taking the machine apart, but I will. Or shall I copy off the rest of the DC progs from Sky before I ruin it completely, decisions, decisions.

 

[Gellyneck]

I have used Recuva many times, with a high success rate:

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Used this as well with reasonable success.

Not without taking the machine apart, but I will. Or shall I copy off the rest of the DC progs from Sky before I ruin it completely, decisions, decisions.

The key is to do as little as possible to the drive before running the recovery software as parts of the drive, which have been deleted, could be overwritten (therefore unrecoverable).
If you could remove the drive and connect it as a slave drive to another pc this means you wouldn't even have to boot the operating system on it thereby minimizing activity on it.

Somebody is bound to mention it, back-up cherished data!

 

[Bailey58]

Used this as well with reasonable success.


The key is to do as little as possible to the drive before running the recovery software as parts of the drive, which have been deleted, could be overwritten (therefore unrecoverable).
Agreed which is why I won't copy off any more to the drive from Sky

If you could remove the drive and connect it as a slave drive to another pc this means you wouldn't even have to boot the operating system on it thereby minimizing activity on it.

Somebody is bound to mention it, back-up cherished data!

Somebody is bound to mention it, back-up cherished data!
Short of copying it off which is what I was doing there is no backup faciity for an old HDD recorder.

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[daveandsan]

What @Gellyneck said.