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Could use a little technical help, please.

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Squirrel3 · 26/02/2006 14:40

My sil has deleted my db as a user on the computer, everything of his has gone. He is self employed and all of his invoices etc were on there.

Is there anyway of getting it all back?

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Squirrel3 · 26/02/2006 15:24

MMmmmmmmmm, I don't remember the Sinclair ZX81, and I am really old (just ask the grandchildren).

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Pixiefish · 26/02/2006 15:27

not necessarily squirrel. if she finds a small independent shop that does repairs it shouldn't cost too much.It's the big PC world type shops that charge the earth for stuff like this

quanglewangle · 26/02/2006 15:27

Is this worth trying winundelete ?
If she decides to give it a go, better download to a floppy or usb stick to avoid over-writing the files she wants to recover.

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Squirrel3 · 26/02/2006 15:28

I remember learning how to do word-processing using 'word-perfect 5.1' and you had to use the function keys for everything. When I had to start using a mouse I didn't think I would ever get the hang of it.

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Squirrel3 · 26/02/2006 15:31

quanglewangle, I'll show her it, maybe even have a go at doing it for her, but I must admit I am bit scared of doing something wrong and making things worse.

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Squirrel3 · 26/02/2006 15:33

Pixiefish, I wouldn't tell her to take it to PC world, they charged her a small fortune to do a system restore last year and I could have done it for her if she had asked.

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quanglewangle · 26/02/2006 15:43

I only skimmed quickly through the winundelete stuff, but I think the trial version lets you see what is there to recover. I think you may have to buy it to actually perform the recovery. But you would at least be able to see if it the files are there, and it sounds fairly safe.

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Squirrel3 · 26/02/2006 15:46

quanglewangle, I'm sure it might be worthwhile her buying it, she/they are always doing stuff like this with the computer. Thanks for finding it for me.

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quanglewangle · 26/02/2006 15:53

Good luck!!
Once, years ago, I was feeling very virtous by working on Saturday. Until, that is, I deleted the whole c: drive on my bosses pc by mistake!! I spent the rest of the day in panic mode recovering stuff (I begged a utility from someone). I recovered everything including loads of stuff he didn't want back!!

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Squirrel3 · 26/02/2006 16:04

Lol, thanks again quanglewangle.

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hunkermunker · 26/02/2006 21:48

SD, my first computer was an Acorn Electron with 28k of memory! PMSL!

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