I usually religiously back up work stuff, but recently I translated a client's site from Japanese to English and had it all saved on the network hard drive in the office so that I could share it with the web designer. I should have thought about it, but I never saved it anywhere else, and it seems that he didn't either. And now it is gone.... Does anyone have any idea about a free way we can recover this data from the network drive? I have checked out a load of freeware programs, but they only seem to work with local drives. Please someone..... help!!! Please help, DP techno people! Surely someone has some idea about how to do this....
I've never heard of being able to recover from a drive you don't have physical access to to be honest.
This is the drive, if that helps... http://www.buffalotech.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=36
Thanks, Shawn. I have a USB cable, but when I connect the drive to my PC, it does not show up as a local drive.
Thanks for the help! It looks like I will have to do most of this work again. Oh well. My fault. At least Google Desktop has cahed versions of 5 pages that were temporarily on my desktop. That is a start at least.
The only thing left I could think of was to send a support query to Buffalo and see if they had any ideas. The other thing is that the drive is pretty full, so the longer this goes the greater the chances are that it will get overwritten anyway.... I might as well just get on and redo the translation now. There is almost no point waiting for their response. The data is basically doomed.
I don't know exactly what the difference is between a network hard drive and a regular desktop hard drive but your dillema reminded me of this piece of software: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/filerescueplus.cfm Maybe this can be helpfull
Thanks for the suggestion, Edz. I downloaded it, but the only drives it lists (like all the other free and free-trial solutions I have found) are the ones local to my machine, and not the one where the data was on the network. It was a good suggestion, though. For most people in most cases this kind of software would do the trick.
Sorry to hear that. What is the difference between a regular and a network drive actually? Could someone clarify this for me?
A regular drive is one that is in the physical machine or attached via USB. A network drive is like another machine on the network allowing it to be accessed by any PC in the network.