[artlewis]

By error, I tossed about 100Gb of video material from an external 120 Gb Lacie d2 drive. I'm resisting the temptation to shoot myself and have isolated the drive.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might be able to retrieve the video data?
Thanks.

[Boochie]

Norton utilities unerase?

[artlewis]

Originally posted by Boochie:
Norton utilities unerase?

I appreciate the suggestion, but NU was not installed due to basic paranoia re NU.
Could TechToolPro4 rescue trashed items, if I were to install it now?
Is there a reliable service that does this kind of work?

[Boochie]

I think Norton's basic unerase capability should be usable even if you install it now. The problems most people have with Norton seem to relate to its Disk Doctor functions.

Originally posted by artlewis:
I appreciate the suggestion, but NU was not installed due to basic paranoia re NU.
Could TechToolPro4 rescue trashed items, if I were to install it now?
Is there a reliable service that does this kind of work?

[MUGlover]

Originally posted by artlewis:
...Could TechToolPro4 rescue trashed items, if I were to install it now?...

Remember that the info is not gone from your hard drive when you delete it. (That's why it happens so quickly.) The area where your files formerly were has been marked as available for other data to be written over it.

This is why you should not install TechTool Pro 4 or its equivalent, or any action that will write to that drive. It is too late to install other things on that drive. I leave it to others to suggest an outside service to help you (at some cost).

[wunderkind]

I did the same mistake yesterday deleting a folder from iPod. What I did:

I connected it to eMac, booted eMac from NU CD, and used Norton's Unerase to recover most of the files deleted from the iPod.

[CharlesS]

I tried DataRescue once and deleted some files to test it, and using the Thorough Scan, it was able to find the deleted files. I'm not exactly sure why, since it's not an advertised feature, but you might want to give it a try if nothing else works.

And re: Norton and paranoia: No one is asking you to run the Disk Doctor component. AFAIK, UnErase can't really do any damage to your disk.

[SSharon]

yea most important thing is don't do anything that will write to the drive, install whatever utility you want somewhere else and run it from there. Good Luck

[solidfox]

I did it too! Erased a full 120 GB disc with movieprojects that is...I really do wonder how others manage to do it to...

[tooki]

Data Rescue X

It's relatively expensive -- $90 -- and is horrifically slow, but may be worth it.

tooki

[motti]

I trashed 30Gb of iMovie material yesterday on my second HD by mistake. I played around with soft links and by mistake deleted the hard link pointing to my Movie folder.

Thanks to Norton Unerase I was able to recover almost all effects and transitions and even some of the clips. But when trying to recover large files, an error message pops up saying that "There is not enough space on the disk". What exactly does this mean? I have more than enough space left on the target disk.. I searched the web and Norton's help but couldn't find any answer.

I have put so many hours in this movie project and the last backup was unfortunately done some weeks ago.