Recover Lost or Deleted Files - FREE & ASAP

We recently experienced the necessity to recover tons of lost, deleted, virused-out and buggy data. Backstep: Allow me to preface today's Bulletin with "I'm writing this issue instead of our resident IT expert, Jonathan Caspian." (When IT guys insist on NO COMMUNICATION WITH THE OUTSIDE breaks, perhaps it should give us all a heads up to disconnect from our tech-driven world every so often.) Nonetheless, my writing this tech-specific issue should boost the credit given to this week's recommended product.

RECUVA. (Pronounced recover. We're not certain but that name smacks of having come from east of Mineola.) Recuva.com is a fanastic little find. This FREE Windows-based application restores files that have been accidently deleted or lost due to a virus or whacky bug. (And, while I'm sure the telecoms will disagree, be very careful with DSL installations. This type of broadband connection seems to inherently come with weird glitches that are responsible for destabilizing Windows OSs and wiping out key data. )

The audio on the vid clip may be somewhat difficult to follow, but it is accompanied by tight visual instructions.

Recuva.com. It works and it's free.

BNI Operatives: Street Smart: Web Savvy.

Stay safe,

Lina

The Dog Ate My Files: Electronic Data Recovery

The new federal rule 26(a)(1)(B), effective Dec.1, 2006, requires parties to provide, without discovery request, "a copy of, or a description by category and location of, all documents, electronically stored information, and tangible things that are in the possession custody, and control of the party and that the disclosing party may use to support its claims or defenses, unless solely for impeachment."

That sounds straightforward enough; the issue may be that ESI (Electronically Shared Information) can come from many different sources and can even appear to have been lost! This can occur for several reasons:

1. Computers come from the manufacturer with a Hardware Protected Area (HPA), which is generally used to store vendor, diagnostic and recovery utilities. This area will not show up in a normal search.

2. Hard drives can come with a Device Configuration Overlay (DCO) which is similar to an HPA. Hard drives commonly flag areas which have bad clusters, or spots on the drive which are corrupted. An area with important data can inadvertently be manually flagged as being "bad" and the operating system will ignore that area. These files will not show up during a normal search.

Solutions:

Easiest:

1. Click on your Start button on your pc.
2. Then on Search.
3. Click on searching "all files and folders".
4. Next, click on "Advanced Options"
5. Finally, ensure "Check Hidden Files" is optioned.

More Complicated:

1. Go To:
www.octanesoft.com/data_recovery_free_edition.html
2. Follow instructions.

3. It's FREE!!

Worst Case Scenario

1. Call us for the contact info of a really good geek.

BNI Investigators: Street smart: Web savvy.

Be safe,

Lina