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wedg1e

Original Poster:

27,038 posts

294 months

Sunday 25th February 2007
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Alas the server that my webbie (www.wedgeneering.co.uk) was on has died (HDD failure) so I've lost almost everything that was on it. I'd originally created it in FrontPage but then switched to Dreamweaver, somehow thinking that it was saving it to my HDD at home... which of course it wasn't. Only the early stages have survived here.
I really can't be pestered to recreate the whole thing so it'll have to be bits and pieces as and when I get some enthusiasm.

Bloody computers, don't you love 'em.

digga951

490 posts

304 months

Sunday 25th February 2007
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What kind of hard drive failure? Sometimes they can be made to work again for just long enough to extract the data. Putting it as a slave in another pc is normally the best way to copy files from them. If its just refusing to spin, then a few gentle taps can sometimes work. If it won't come to life, put it in a sealed bag and place it in the freezer for 10 minutes - sometimes also helps things.

Dan.

danny hoffman

1,617 posts

291 months

Sunday 25th February 2007
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Ian

I agree with Dan - find out how bad the hard disk is. We can often recover them. I would be more than happy to have a crack at it for you.

Cheers

Danny

nail_it

968 posts

237 months

Sunday 25th February 2007
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Time for a HDD wake.
Never been to one before.
Where, when & dress code please?

Wedg1e

Original Poster:

27,038 posts

294 months

Sunday 25th February 2007
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Dunno - it's not my HDD.

danny hoffman

1,617 posts

291 months

Sunday 25th February 2007
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Ian - see if he'll let me have a crack at recovering it

GreenV8S

31,017 posts

313 months

Sunday 25th February 2007
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Can't see anything in the internet archive, Google has cached the front page but I can't find any cached copies of anything else.

If you know of anyone who has visited it recently (you, maybe) you may still have locally cached copies of the parts you have visited. Try going off-line and accessing the site again.

mikeb

2,869 posts

311 months

Sunday 25th February 2007
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danny hoffman said:
Ian

I agree with Dan - find out how bad the hard disk is. We can often recover them. I would be more than happy to have a crack at it for you.

Cheers

Danny



Watch it though Wedg1e, remember the glitter! ;-)

MikeyB

dickymint

29,081 posts

287 months

Sunday 25th February 2007
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mikeb said:
danny hoffman said:
Ian

I agree with Dan - find out how bad the hard disk is. We can often recover them. I would be more than happy to have a crack at it for you.

Cheers

Danny



Watch it though Wedg1e, remember the glitter! ;-)

MikeyB


yes

Do NOT take it to PC World hehe
















seriously Ian, hope you find it all.

zaktoo

805 posts

236 months

Sunday 25th February 2007
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www.google.co.za/search?q=site%3Awedgeneering.co.uk&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Click on the "cached" links - be as quick as possible, they will be cleared in a few days, maybe less.

HTH

Ciao

Zak


Edited by zaktoo on Sunday 25th February 23:25

zaktoo

805 posts

236 months

Sunday 25th February 2007
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You'll need to have a search on your hard drive for the pics and the few powerpoint presentations I see referenced. I'm sure you'll find the pics on your local drive somewhere, just now a matter of matching the google cached bits to the images you hopefully find.

HTH

Ciao

Zak

pwd95

8,457 posts

267 months

Sunday 25th February 2007
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zaktoo said:
www.google.co.za/search?q=site%3Awedgeneering.co.uk&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Click on the "cached" links - be as quick as possible, they will be cleared in a few days, maybe less.

HTH

Ciao

Zak


Edited by zaktoo on Sunday 25th February 23:25


Did you manage to save any of them coz I cant see any of them.

zaktoo

805 posts

236 months

Sunday 25th February 2007
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pwd95 said:

Did you manage to save any of them coz I cant see any of them.



Not saved, but all still open. I'll get cracking

zaktoo

805 posts

236 months

Sunday 25th February 2007
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OK saved 'em all. Send me details of where you want 'em etc.

Ciao

Zak

Wedg1e

Original Poster:

27,038 posts

294 months

Sunday 25th February 2007
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Bloody hell fellas, good going! I can't see any of the cached pages myself, not sure where we go from here, can you email them or does it need uploading to a sprongle somewhere?

Yours,

A. Numpty

zaktoo

805 posts

236 months

Sunday 25th February 2007
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Wedg1e said:
Bloody hell fellas, good going! I can't see any of the cached pages myself, not sure where we go from here, can you email them or does it need uploading to a sprongle somewhere?

Yours,

A. Numpty


Well, Mr Numpty, can I email you a zip file? Some of the files will be a little oddly named, and the pictures are all awol, but the content is all there. Also, you'll need to remove the spurious bumpf at the top of each page (once you've taken all the useful bits from it that google has addded, such as original url etc)...

pwd95

8,457 posts

267 months

Sunday 25th February 2007
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clap

wedg1e

Original Poster:

27,038 posts

294 months

Monday 26th February 2007
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zaktoo said:
Wedg1e said:
Bloody hell fellas, good going! I can't see any of the cached pages myself, not sure where we go from here, can you email them or does it need uploading to a sprongle somewhere?

Yours,

A. Numpty


Well, Mr Numpty, can I email you a zip file? Some of the files will be a little oddly named, and the pictures are all awol, but the content is all there. Also, you'll need to remove the spurious bumpf at the top of each page (once you've taken all the useful bits from it that google has addded, such as original url etc)...


YHM.

ETA: rage No you don't. For some reason I get 'Ooops. You don't have permission to send emails'.

WTF is all THAT about...?!

Try esprits3@ntlworld.com...

Cheers!

Ian



Edited by wedg1e on Monday 26th February 00:12

zaktoo

805 posts

236 months

Monday 26th February 2007
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OK, YHM (no, really)

wedg1e

Original Poster:

27,038 posts

294 months

Monday 26th February 2007
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Nice one Zak... though I'm a bit worried that I may have a stalker now I didn't think anyone read anything I wrote, far less kept it for posterity hehe