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A couple of weeks ago my laptop suffered from a total hard disk failure.

Although I regularly backed up data, unbeknown to me, the last half dozen or so back-ups were corrupted, so effectively any emails I received after about mid/end of November have been lost, along with photos, addresses, and other data. !tears!

It's already taken me about 4 days to reload all my drivers and software, and I'm now slowly trying to sort through the uncorrupted data, but it's an arduous task!

To save me time going through a 3 month old csv file, I would be very grateful if anyone who thinks they were in my email address book could send me a brief email so I can quickly save their addresses.

Thanks in advance for your help and co-operation in this matter, and my apologies to anyone who has emailed me recently and hasn't yet received a reply... please resend the email as the chances are that it's been lost forever at my end.

Bob have you tried using some FAT Repair or Undelete software ? both are very good.

The IT expert who's been sorting things out for me says the only solution is one of those specialist labs that retrieve data. The platters of the original hard drive don't spin anymore, and when plugged in to a machine as a secondary drive it doesn't even "exist"

The corrupt "backup" can't be retrieved either... we've tried!

Thats a major fucker

The last 2 of my drives that died was just the boot sectors or the partition tables that was fucked up, on 1 i had some prongs from the connector snap but thats about the worst so far.

Tell me about it!!

I did have over 5000 email addresses (dancers, models, male strippers, comedians, drag artists, sports & social clubs, TV and film production companies, music video people, marketing companies, bars/venues, customers, etc., etc.) and have managed to "save" about 3000 or so from accessing an outdated mailing list on an old PC that managed to survive my house fire 18 months ago... but sending emails to everyone to check the details are still correct is time consuming.

This thread has so far provided me with all of 4 replies!! !sad!