RE: How do I recover my old stuff?

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

'Technical Writing Plus' wrote: 
 
> Jan, Thanks much for the very informative and comprehensive message. Right,
> I do want to 'save' as much of the HD as possible, so I am not going to be
> using this computer much - another computer, one that I ordered about a
> month ago, is coming this week.

If you want to recover your data, don't use this computer **at*all**. Every time any program writes to that disk, it's probably overwriting pieces of multiple files. Recovering 80% of a file isn't as useful as you might think. 


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-903-6372
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