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Recupere arquivos apagados do seu HD!

biancamafra — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:04:13 +0000

Em alguns casos ainda é possível “desfazer o estrago”.

Quando você deleta um arquivo, ele não é literalmente apagado do seu HD. O sistema apenas desprograma alguns códigos, e isto faz com que ele se torne “invisível” dentro do seu computador.

Com o programa gratuito Free Undelete, você consegue recuperar seus arquivos em alguns casos. Para baixá-lo, é só clicar AQUI.

Até a próxima!!

Windows Home Server and the 12 hour undelete

spackle — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:31:19 +0000

A thoroughly scary and disappointing thing happened to me this weekend that made me reevaluate my cavalier way of doing IT work at home (you know, where the data is actually important).

I admit I was over-confident about certain things. Heck, the thing we were doing worked before, so why shouldn’t it work again?

Here are some of the lessons and quirks that I uncovered:

You’ve got 720 minutes

Windows Home Server (WHS) does some really great things. It mirrors your files so that in case of most hardware failures, your content is safe. It backs up your other computers so that you’ve got peace of mind when your computers start making funny noises… but what’s backing up your WHS box (I would link in JungleDisk here, but they just pulled their WHS backup beta until further notice)?

What if you make a mistake (or something else does), and you lose some files?

The good news is that you actually can recover files that are accidentally deleted from a WHS network share. For 12 hours. You may be able to right click on the folder in question and look through the “Previous Versions” of it and recover the lost content (review the link to see the steps – there’s also a client tool that could help there, but I’ve not used it).

Here are the key points to know about when it comes to previous versions in WHS:

Depending on your disk space, you may only have 12 hours to figure out there is a problem AND recover the files (recovery isn’t instantaneous)
If you only have 1 previous version available (due to disk space), it will disappear at noon or midnight.
You must do the recovery from the network shares (log into the machine and open explorer, type in “\\<your machine name>”, right click on a folder and select Properties and work from there), not the “d:\shares\” folder in WHS. You won’t see any previous versions from the “d:\shares\” folder.

So, if there is all this protection involved – even without a backup of WHS itself, why was this such a problem? Enter the next set of factors…

Windows 7 and media libraries

A challenge for a friend and I has been figuring out how to seamlessly incorporate a vast collection of Apple Lossless (ALAC) .m4a music into his Media Center and Windows Media Player. Zune seems to be a lost cause since it decides to use its own DirectShow filters and its own special media library.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, but have ALAC encoded files without DRM, I would suggest you:

Install iTunes somewhere
Open your vast ALAC library of music
Change the default music encoding scheme in iTunes to WMA Lossless or something similar
Go away for a while and let iTunes churn

Anyhow, let’s just say I’m thoroughly convinced that ALAC files are just not meant to live together with any Microsoft Media Center type product. Go to some other media center type application for your HTPC, use iTunes, or convert your files.

We were able to get the files to play in Windows Media Center and Windows Media Player 12 (in Windows 7) by installing QuickTime and the RiverPast QuickTime DirectShow Filter. The catch is that you can’t see the “tag” information in the files. So song name, album etc. are all going to be empty unless you install some sort of Windows Media Player plugin. It’s possible this could let you stream music over http on your WHS box if you install QuickTime and the DirectShow filters there too (untested).

I’m not going to suggest an AAC music information plugin for Windows 7 WMP 12. Somewhere along the line of attempting to get these ALAC files merged into the Windows Media Center and WMP media library, something started deleting the music files silently.

This could have been any one of several moving parts in this setup (note, this did work in Vista). However, we did not discover there was a problem until about 10AM when we noticed that all the music files in the artists beginning with “A” and most of the “B’s” were already gone.

By the time we figured out how to recover files from the shadow copies (we tried using the d:\shares folders at first instead of the actual \\<machine name> shares), it was 12:01 PM. The previous versions disappeared, and all was lost.

Note, his WHS volumes were very full, so it could only keep one shadow copy around.

Other Windows Media Player 12 and Win 7 Media Center quirks

Independent from the above problem, we couldn’t even add any music to the WMP / MCE library. We also could not view the library setup at all in Windows Media Center and Windows Media Player 12. The symptoms of this problem are:

In Windows Media Player 12, right click the Music entry on the left and select “Manage Library”, and nothing happens. Or find another way to select “Manage Library” and again, nothing will happen.
In Windows Media Center in Windows 7, if you select Tasks and Media Libraries, the option to “Remove a location” will be grayed out and unselectable. You can attempt to add a new location, but you’ll never know for sure if it worked.

If you run into this situation, this may have happened to you:

You mapped a network shared folder to a drive (say “M:” for your “\\homeserver\Music” shared folder)
That drive mapping somehow disappeared

On a whim, I added his M: drive into the mix to see if that changed anything. I didn’t realize he used to have drive M: in his setup. After doing this, I was suddenly able to manage his media libraries in both WMP and MCE.

Moral: Test test test

Yup. It seems simple enough… we should have copied a bunch of his ALAC media to a temporary location and pointed all our efforts toward that. The drawback there was the colossal amount of time it takes to rebuild the media library. But then again, he wouldn’t have lost any media by my hand.

Oh, and maybe throw an extra drive into your WHS box if you get near 70% capacity.

Get data back for FAT and NTFS

denozonline — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:34:04 +0000

Jika data penting anda hilang /terdelete dan tidak bisa direstore kembali dari recycle bin, solusi terbaik gunakan aplikasi ini.

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Satu cerita System Mechanic 5 Professional

Kang Agus — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:10:29 +0000

Satu cerita tenntang software ini yang membuatku merasa tenang kalau googling, blogging atau download macem baik itu mp3, atau video di youtube karena salah satu jagoan ini bisa merawat komputerku dengan teliti dan sampai mematikan file-file yang tidak berguna terdeteksi dengan system mechanic ini, pokonya serbaguna bisa obrak-abrik file terhidden atau mengembalikan program atau file tidak sengaja ter-delet jadi kita bisa undelete dengan system mechanich 5 professional ini, ketika aku kena virus dan komputerku sering hang dan lambat ternyata denga software ini sembuh seketika bisa teratasi emang ini ampuh menurutku, kalu seandainya teman-teman butuh software andalanku silahkan aja download Disini ini aku gak akan banyak cerita kalau komputermu pingin Fix and speed Up your PC silahkan unduh Disini, semoga pengalaman aku ini jadi suatu inspirasi buat temen-temen yang suka main internet soalnya penting banget kalau untuk melindungi komputer kita. Silahkan berikan komentar atau saran mungkin punya pengalaman yang sama atau? ingat virus akan masuk bila ada kesempatan ah namanya juga virus suka melakukan kesempatan dalam kesempitan udah ya jangan banyak cerita silahkan unduh atau Download Disini

Glary Undelete - bring back files from the digital grave

erickalvino — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:32:24 +0000

I like Glary’s other apps, so it’s a good bet that this one works well also. From the website:

“Glary Undelete is a free and easy-to-use yet powerful file undelete solution for FAT and NTFS file systems. It will bring back files emptied from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down. It will even recover files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!

Glary Undelete works under Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating systems. The program supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives including FAT12/16/32,NTFS/NTFS5 and image recovery from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards.”

Get Glary Undelete

on things going poof

Jez Lucas — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:50:30 +0000

After some cuts, pastes and a few clicks here and there, in just one frenzied sweep the project I had made for a client flies directly to the recycle bin, which I immediately and carelessly mouse-over to right-click and empty.

God, what was I thinking? Oh, my mistake. I wasn’t thinking.

Fourteen different file recovery programs downloaded and tried after, I’ve come to believe that the document is evil; it did not want to be found.

Poof. A hard day’s work goes bye-bye, just like that.

Maeyahn and I pondered about how some things can just go poof! Files for work. Five years worth of digital memories. A self-penned novel. Relationships. Feelings.

It makes you wonder what would happen if you can just easily take that particular thing from the banks of your memory and hit ‘undelete’.

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Undelete Files with Soonr!

soonr — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:10:21 +0000

Ever delete a file and realize it hours, maybe days later? For users of Soonr with a Premium or Pro account, a new feature was introduced today that will be a godsend to many people. Users can now undelete both folders and single files in a single menu choice!

Soonr has always provided an unparalleled ability to version control your files as you work on projects yourself or with groups of people. Now by user request, we have implemented an undelete feature that allows you get get back files or folders that accidentally get deleted.

From any folder, choose the “Show Deleted” option to reveal the deleted files.

After you have made the selection, you will notice deleted entries in dark gray text. In order to undelete a file, simply choose the menu item “restore” from the drop down menu.

Restoring an undeleted file is easy.

This was one of the top requests that we got from users. Aside from restoring a backup in a disaster, getting a deleted file back was the number one backup related request that we got from users. We will continue to listen to our users to create the best product possible to help them be more productive.

If you are using a FREE account, this feature will not be active as those accounts don’t include versioning. This is a great time to secure 10GB of your important files across multiple computers for only $7.95 a month. To upgrade, just log into your account and goto the “Settings” tab then choose “Subscription” along the left. Give it a try! If you don’t like it, you can cancel at anytime.

Thanks for the feedback.

L'iPhone che si rifiuta di cancellare le e-mail

zinino — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:24:00 +0000

Potrebbe essere una caratteristica interessante,, quella di avere un telefono con una memoria storica che consenta di recuperare anche vecchi files o messaggi che siamo sicuri di avere eliminato.

In effetti sarebbe interessante, se solo non si trattasse della nostra privacy, e dei problemi che potrebbe causare. Alcuni giorni fa è stato scoperto un nuovo bug che non cancella le vecchie e-mail, spostate nel cestino e successivamente eliminate. Il tutto è stato documentato minuziosamente in un video reperibile su YouTube, in cui si vede un utente che cancella tramite due passaggi (cestino e successivamente elimina dal cestino) le email, che è successivamente reperire tramite la funzione di ricerca Spotlight, presente nell’iPhone dalla versione 3.0 in poi.

IL problema si pone nel caso in cui il telefono passa di mano, dal suo proprietario ad un altro utente, per cui il consiglio è quello di stare molto attenti in questi casi.

Apple dichiara che il bug sarà corretto nella versione 3.1, che per il momento è in beta testing.

chmod hak akses di Linux

Rikie Kartadie — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:08:33 +0000

Tidak sedikit pengguna Linux yang mengalami kebingungan karena tidak dapat mengoperasikan suatu program atau mengakses sebuah file atau direktori dikarenakan oleh hak akses yang ada pada setiap file dan direktori yang ada pada Linux (termasuk Saya ..hehehehe).
Linux mengenal hak akses yang mengatur setiap user sehingga tiap user hanya dapat mengakses file-file atau direktori tertentu saja, hal ini digunakan untuk kepentingan keamanan sistem.
Dua perintah (program) dalam Linux yang digunakan untuk mengatur hak akses tersebut adalah chmod dan chown. Program chmod digunakan untuk mengubah hak akses suatu file, sedangkan chown digunakan untuk mengganti pemilik file tersebut.
Hak Akses dalam Linux
Sebelum melangkah lebih jauh mengenai penggunaan perintah diatas, sebelumnya perlu dijelaskan terlebih dahulu mengenai hak akses di dalam Linux.
Setiap file dan direktori yang ada dalam sistem linux memiliki tiga buah hak akses, satu untuk user itu sendiri, kemudian untuk user dalam grup yang sama dengan pemilik file dan yang terakhir untuk user lainnya.

Anda dapat melihat hak akses sebuah file dengan menggunakan perintah ls l, perhatikan contoh dibawah ini:
-rw-rw-r– 1 postgres postgres 41527 Jul 12 2001 summary.pdf
drwxrwxr-x 2 postgres postgres 4096 Sep 20 2002 Suse
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 4935 Aug 23 2001 T123456.log
-rw-r–r– 1 postgres postgres 13335 Apr 10 17:04 tchart2.java

Karakter pertama menunjukkan jenisnya, jika berisi karakter d, berarti itu adalah direktori sedangkan jika kosong berarti file. Sembilan karakter berikutnya menunjukkan hak aksesnya, dengan tiga karakter pertama menunjukkan hak akses untuk user tersebut, tiga karakter berikutnya menunjukkan hak akses untuk grup nya dan tiga karakter terakhir menunjukkan hak akses untuk user lain.

Masing-masing arti karakter tersebut dapat dilihat pada tabel berikut:
Karakter Arti Nilai
r (read) Hak akses untuk membaca 4
w (write) Hak akses untuk menulis 2
x (exec) Hak akses untuk menjalankan 1

Dengan mengkombinasikan nilai pada masing-masing hak akses tersebut, akan didapatkan hak akses masing-masing, perhatikan tabel berikut:
Hak Akses Nilai Arti
— 0 Tidak memiliki hak akses (tidak dapat di akses)
r– 4 Dapat dibaca dan ditulis (diedit)
rw- 6 Dapat dibaca dan ditulis (diedit)
rwx 7 Dapat dibaca, ditulis dan dieksekusi (dijalankan)
r-x 5 Dapat dibaca dan dijalankan, tetapi tidak dapat diedit
–x 1 Hanya dapat dijalankan

Berikut contoh penerapannya:
Hak Akses Nilai Arti
-rw——- 600 Pemilik memiliki hak akses baca dan tulis, sedangkan orang lain tidak memiliki hak akses apapun. Set dengan hak akses ini supaya file anda tidak dapat dibaca orang lain, biasanya digunakan untuk file-file dokumen
-rw-r–r– 644 Pemilik memiliki hak akses baca dan tulis sedangkan orang lain hanya dapat membaca saja. Gunakan hak akses ini jika anda ingin orang lain dapat membaca file anda
-rw-rw-rw- 666 Dengan hak akses ini, orang lain juga akan dapat membaca dan merubah file anda
-rwx—— 700 Pemilik dapat membaca, menulis dan menjalankan file ini, hak akses ini yang biasanya digunakan untuk menjalankan program
-rwxr-xr-x 755 Pemilik memiliki hak akses baca, tulis dan menjalankan file ini, sedangkan orang lain hanya dapat membaca dan menjalankan file tersebut
drwx—— 700 Hanya pemilik yang dapat mengakses, membaca dan menulis pada direktori tersebut. Setiap direktori harus memiliki hak akses x untuk dapat diakses
drwxr-xr-x 755 Isi direktori ini hanya dapat dirubah oleh pemilik, tetapi orang lain dapat membaca isi direktori tersebut
Menggunakan Perintah chmod
Untuk menggunakan chmod, perintahnya adalah:

# chmod hakakses namafile

misalnya:

# chmod 644 coba.txt

perintah tersebut akan mengubah hak akses file coba.txt menjadi seperti berikut:

-rw-r–r– 1 postgres postgres 41527 Jul 12 2001 coba.txt

Untuk mengganti hak akses sebuah direktori beserta dengan isinya, gunakan parameter R, dengan parameter tersebut, chmod akan dijalankan secara rekursif, misalnya seluruh file yang ada pada direktori /home/user/public_html akan dirubah hak aksesnya menjadi 755, maka perintahnya adalah sebagai berikut:

# chmod R 755 /home/user/public_html

Menggunakan Perintah chown
Perintah chown digunakan untuk mengganti pemilik sebuah file, perintah ini hanya dapat digunakan oleh user root. Perintah ini hanya dapat digunakan oleh user root. Perintahnya adalah sebagai berikut:

# chown namauser.namagrup namafile

misalnya:

# chown user.user coba.txt

perintah chown juga dapat digunakan dengan menggunakan parameter R, contohnya adalah sebagai berikut:
# chown R apache.apache /var/www/html

Perintah chattr
Seringkali secara tidak sengaja kita menghapus atau mengedit sebuah file penting, di dalam Linux tidak ada fasilitas undelete, jadi file yang telah terhapus tidak dapat dikembalikan lagi.

Perintah (program) chattr digunakan untuk melindungi sebuah file sehingga tidak akan dapat dihapus ataupun dirubah dengan perintah apapun. Perintah chattr memberikan atribut i pada file yang dilindungi, perintahnya:

# chattr +i namafile

misal:

# chattr +i penting.txt

setelah perintah tersebut dijalankan, gunakan perintah ls l untuk melihat hasilnya:

jika suatu ketika file ini akan diedit atau dihapus, terlebih dahulu atribut diatas harus dilepas, untuk melepasnya gunakan perintah berikut:

# chattr i namafile

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Undelete Programs

SMallard — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:30:45 +0000

Steve T. recently saved a local government agency a lot of time by undeleting a file that had been

Programas para recuperar datos de discos duros (Software de recuperación de datos de discos duros)

silverfenix7 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:39:14 +0000

A veces por causas fortuitas (ej: Formateo por error de una unidad de almacenamiento, Borrado accide

Recover Lost Data - 7 Tools

nitinverma71 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:22:43 +0000

I know how it fells when we are on the verge of loosing our data or have already lost it some time in the past..

Listed are a few software and tips to recover your lost data.

1 Recover Files is an award winning program that can undelete / recover deleted files after they have been deleted. It is an award winning program that can undelete / recover deleted files after they have been deleted. It is a professional file recovery software that allows it’s user to recover accidentally deleted files. Even files removed from the Recycle Bin, network drive, compact flash card, portable drives, in a DOS window, or from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down.

Click Here to download it

2. Pandora Recovery

File recovery has never been easier thanks to Pandora Recovery. The program’s wizard-like approach to finding and retrieving lost files will appeal to all users.

Click Here to download it.

3 PC Inspector File Recovery

PC Inspector File Recovery is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged (does not work with the NTFS file system). Recovers files with the original time and date stamp. Supports the saving of recovered files on network drives.

Click Here to download it.

4 Recuva File Recovery

Recuva (pronounced “recover”) is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses.

Click Here to download it.

5. Restoration

Restoration is an easy to use and straight forward tool to undelete files that were removed from the recycle bin or directly deleted from within Windows, and we were also able to recover photos from a Flash card that had been formatted. Upon start, you can scan for all files that may be recovered and also limit the results by entering a search term or extension. In addition, it also provides the option to wipe the found files beyond simple recovery. The program is small and standalone, it does not require installation and can also run from a Floppy disk. Restoration works with FAT and NTFS as well as digital cameras cards.

Click Here to download.

6 Softperfect File Recovery

SoftPerfect File Recovery is a free and useful tool to restore accidentally deleted files from hard and floppy disks, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media. It supports the popular file systems such as FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 with compression and encryption. If your important files disappeared and you canâ€™t find them in the recycle bin, try this software product and get the files back to life. Easy to use, no installation is required. Program is only 247 KB in size.

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7 Avira UnErase Personal

Avira UnErase recovers data that have been deleted from the hard drive either accidentally or as a result of a virus infection, an uninstaller or defective software. The danger of important data being lost forever is averted with Avira UnErase. Setup file is 402 KB in size.

Click here to download

Reader Questions Deleting

techpaul — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:48:09 +0000

I have posted a few articles on “shredding” the files on your hard drive to truly delete

File Management Software

rimuraarken — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:54:05 +0000

Below is a list of files management software and installer for customizing, maintenancing, syncroniz

Undelete Files

SMallard — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:47:10 +0000

Here’s another tool to help you undelete accidently deleted files. Link

Delete An "undeletable(error)" Files in windows :P

lane memory — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:38:13 +0000

once a time, you got something error windows when you are copying, cut, or paste your file with file manager (windust explorer maybe…). thus, what we used to fix this? in this post, i’ve been write about things to do when it happened. let’s say the solution is deleting a file. but,if you delete manually, you’ve got error message or bad redundancy file. let’s check now!here is to do.
open a command prompt window and leave it open. then close all open programs.
click start, run and enter TASKMGR.EXE or you can press ctrl+alt+del in anywhere to run task manager. go to the Processes tab and terminate Process on Explorer.exe.
just leave task manager open. go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the files (or other undeletable file) is located in.
At the command prompt type:
DEL <filename> where <filename>

note: <filename> is the file you wish to delete.

Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell. close Task Manager.

there is other way to deleting file by only save in others format file. for the example is we would delete “miyabi.avi” but miyabi.avi can’t delete normally. we just only open it with notepad (or something else, which not editor of the source file) and save it to other format (*.txt). now, we just deleting the file. how if my file is not deleted?

don’t worry,there is another way. you can still delete the file with other operating system which can see (read,write partition) the partition of your windust . are you install linux and replace the windust partition?!. no, exactly not!one way, you can download any linux or *nix live cd (ubuntu live cd ~i suggest). (format of file is *.iso) . burn it into CD/DVD and then boot it into your computer. so, we just deleted a file or folder which corrupt. and remmember to defrag your partition of your windust. because, maybe your hard drive is corrupt. good luck!

Free recovery tools

rihanmeij — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:13:16 +0000

This article was written by Jason Fitzpatrick and the full version can be seen at http://lifehacker.com/5237503/five-best-free-data-recovery-tools

TestDisk (Windows/Mac/Linux)

Recuva (Windows)

PhotoRec (Windows/Mac/Linux)

Restoration (Windows)

Undelete Plus (Windows)

I knew of TestDisk but the others look really good.

Thanks Jason !

Recuva 1.27.419 - File Recovery Tool

filemirrors — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:21:54 +0000

- Download Recuva 1.27.419 – File Recovery Tool
- Download Recuva 1.27.419 – File Recovery Tool (mirror 1)
- Download Recuva 1.27.419 – File Recovery Tool (mirror 2)
- Download Recuva 1.27.419 – File Recovery Tool (mirror 3)

Recover Deleted Items After Emptying Outlook's Deleted Items Folder

computertrainer — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:00:54 +0000

This feature requires you to use a Microsoft Exchange Server 2000, 2003, or 2007 account. Most home

Recover Accidentally Deleted Files

Paul Morris — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:58:52 +0000

The right question is: Is it even possible to retrieve lost files? And the answer is, it depends. On

T500 minus, kudos to ZAR

virgo47 — Sat, 16 May 2009 19:51:19 +0000

This post is actually immediate continuation of my previous problem – it just took me some time to get to it. After all my troubles with wannabe-freewares I got to the ZAR – or Zero Assumption Recovery software. While the software itself is not a freeware it has a free functionality. Luckily for me it was exactly that one I needed – image recovery from raw filesystem. I installed it on aforementioned Lenovo T500 I recently acquired at work and gave it a try. Many pictures were saved but not the ones I needed. Actually very old images were recovered. Than I discovered that whatever I do ZAR always reads only first 3.55 GB of the flash card. “Hm, wait, that’s strange!” One look to the Total Commander – right it reports 8GB card. I don’t know why I checked Windows format utility – but it wanted to format the drive only to 3.55 GB – so obviously ZAR wasn’t the only one “wrong” here.

Long story short. T500 card reader is either faulty or wrong drivers are installed or I don’t know what. I tried to reinstall drivers from Lenovo site, no luck – card was still only 3.55GB. I tried the card in my colleague’s T400 – it worked just fine! (I mean really worked as 8GB, not as it seemingly worked in my computer only to read garbage.) I couldn’t find help on Lenovo forums (yet, but after a few days the post is too low to anyone care) and I actually found out that many people have surprising amount of various problems with something I wanted for the quality. My T500 actually has also tricky fingerprint reader that sometimes gets stuck and reports “too short” swipe every two seconds or so and it’s close to impossible to enter the password. Not to mention very weak USB (I mean my wife’s Asus can power MIDI keyboard and USB audio interface better) – all three of them within 2-3 cm on one side. The computer is not THAT bad – it has actually pretty cool reviews (that affected me in my choice) – but I expected less problems for the money. Now I have notebook that looks solid (“you have a Thinkpad!”), has a nice display (1680×1050 in my case, love that) and… that’s about it. But I didn’t want to write about my disenchantment of the notebook initially.

I wanted to recommend you ZAR in case you need to recover your data from the filesystem!

And my pictures? I inserted the card into the reader we have on Epson Stylus Photo RX585 and recovered every single image I thought was lost. In addition to this adventure (that ruined one half of my day and made my day afterwards) I found out how pictures are written on the card and that they use all the capacity even when I delete them every time I download them to the computer. I don’t know if it’s FAT feature (never knew about it), I doubt camera can manage it under the filesystem level – and I don’t care really. Important thing is that the card is used nicely considering limited number of write cycles. I know, I know – I wouldn’t reach the limit even if only the first portion of the card was overwritten again and again. I just like it as it is.