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Here's what I've been doing the past couple of days.
As mentioned earlier, I was able to recover all the files on the hard drive that lost its master boot record, with the exception of the email I received and sent between 2/15 and 2/26. On a lark, I thought, "Can I search the disk for that missing email? It could be in diskspace that isn't associated with a file. Or it's gone forever. What do I have to lose, other than my data?" And so I fired up Runtime's DiskExplorer for FAT, which I bought along with Runtime's GetDataBack for FAT, and searched for some text strings that I knew would be in the missing email. I tried "Digest Number 173" and got nothing. (Unfortunately, I can't use wild cards in the search, os use regular expressions, since it does an exact match.) Then I tried "Sat Feb 14"....
( And I got some hits. )
As mentioned earlier, I was able to recover all the files on the hard drive that lost its master boot record, with the exception of the email I received and sent between 2/15 and 2/26. On a lark, I thought, "Can I search the disk for that missing email? It could be in diskspace that isn't associated with a file. Or it's gone forever. What do I have to lose, other than my data?" And so I fired up Runtime's DiskExplorer for FAT, which I bought along with Runtime's GetDataBack for FAT, and searched for some text strings that I knew would be in the missing email. I tried "Digest Number 173" and got nothing. (Unfortunately, I can't use wild cards in the search, os use regular expressions, since it does an exact match.) Then I tried "Sat Feb 14"....
( And I got some hits. )
