Is it possible to recover a deleted Database

Cillies

Hello, I have managed to delete a database, but I don't know when, it
was sometime in the last 2 months. I have not created a back up.

So should I start looking for a new job.

Nov 13 '05 #1

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Lyle Fairfield

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Hello, I have managed to delete a database, but I don't know when, it
was sometime in the last 2 months. I have not created a back up.

So should I start looking for a new job.

You might want to look for

deleted file recovery

in Google, before that.

I can vouch for Ontrack in the days of FAT and Windows 98, and Symantec
recently. Often those who lose files have not backed them up and do not
perform defragmentation . The latter may be a good thing in such a case.
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Nov 13 '05 #2

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Thanks for the speedy reply, I'll try Ontrack. I did defragment my drive
two days ago, will this effect the recovery.
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Nov 13 '05 #3

Pieter Linden

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Thanks for the speedy reply, I'll try Ontrack. I did defragment my drive
two days ago, will this effect the recovery.

Umm... no more than repaving a road will affect the likelihood of your
finding the keys you left there...

When you delete a file, nothing happens to it physically - basically
the space the file occupies is marked as free by the OS, so that space
can be used over again. If you're *lucky*, you can undelete the file,
but that assumes that you have not done anything major with the drive
(like defragmenting, which is a series of reading bits of data into
RAM, and then writing the consolidated pieces back to a section of the
drive that has been marked as free). So, by defragmenting, you have
most likely destroyed the copy on your HDD. The likelihood of getting
back after a defrag is probably nil. As a friend of mine used to say
when a customer called with this problem "You do have a backup, don't
you?"

Nov 13 '05 #4

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