Help! I've lost my essay

Sugarhunny1

No im not running Vista, good (?) old XP

Moneymaker

Just a tip for the future. I do a lot of writing and I'm aware that I'm unlikely to be able to reproduce a 300 page book from memory if I lose it! Nor am I likely to have the heart to write it again anyway. So I have an external Hard Drive and software which automatically copies each day's work over to it at night.

As a minimum, I recommend you get a 1 or 2GB memory stick and copy your work over to that *every hour*. It can save a lot of heartache.

Programmes can be reinstalled but your own work is precious and should be treated as such.

Dumyat

I have to do a lot of essay writing and what I do is email it to myself each time I log off. I also use a memory stick.

colin79666

whenever I have uni work to do I copy it from my own PC to my Uni file space every time I have done any significant work.
The system is great cos I can make my uni file space appear in My Network Places like any other networked place

BritBrat

If you have done a factory install/reset you may as well give up now as it has wrote a lot of stuff to the disk.

When anything like that happens first thing you do is STOP using the disk, take it out and put it into another computer as a slave and try and recover the data.

If you cant remove it then the next option is to boot to a Linux CD/DVD and try and get the data from it when running linux.

Like others have said, when my dauhter was doing studying I used to take all her files and put them on ISP web space for safe keeping, she never asked me to do it but I always have, that way if the whole house burns down the data is still avialable.