[GRLUG] Recovering files

[Casey DuBois]

Well I did the google search and see there are MANY OTHERS with the same issue.
I got ahold of a friend that works @ Apple and he wasn't much help.
The best suggestion came from a friend in the memory biz - they use
recover my files (software to restore from USB Flash and SD cards)
plan on trying this one tonight.

Thanks to all for your assistance.

Casey







On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Collin Kidder <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:
> Well, best of luck. Depending on what exactly happened you might get
> something or you might not. Flash uses destructive erase. It actually
> zaps entire blocks at a time to reprogram. So if the blocks were zapped
> then only God himself knows what they used to be. It's not like a hard
> drive where maybe you can get some left over bits. If something is
> written to an area it's first totally erased and then reprogrammed. So,
> I hope for your sake, that you have written nothing to the drive since
> then. You might be saved by the write leveling algorithms though.
>
> Casey DuBois wrote:
>> Thank You Paul and Rich,
>> I have e-mailed OnTrack (we've used them before also) and will try
>> Paul's suggestion also.
>> Any additional suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Casey
>>
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>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Rich Nagel <networkman at triton.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Casey,
>>>
>>> Admittedly, it's been several years since I've needed their services(and
>>> hopefully it'll be several more!), but I had great results with OnTrack -
>>> http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/data-recovery-services/
>>>
>>> Their page does include "mobile devices", so I'd assume that would include
>>> phones as well as notebooks.
>>>
>>> Worth a call. ;)
>>>
>>> Rich
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Casey DuBois" <casey at grlug.org>
>>> To: <grlug at grlug.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:16 PM
>>> Subject: [GRLUG] Recovering files
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi GRLUG,
>>>>
>>>> I got the new iPhone 3G and while transfering my contacts it seems
>>>> that my photo's have dissapeared (my bad).
>>>>
>>>> There are several HDD recovery companies but does anyone know of a
>>>> recovery option for flash (iPhone)?
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thank You in advance.
>>>>
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>>>> Casey DuBois
>>>> 616-808-6942
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