<html style="direction: rtl;"> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <style type="text/css">body p { margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt; } </style> </head> <body style="direction: ltr;" bidimailui-detected-decoding-type="latin-charset" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div style="direction: ltr;" class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/16/2013 01:08 AM, Phil wrote: </div> <blockquote style="direction: ltr;" cite="mid:50F5E155.5060804@bigpond.com" type="cite">On 15/01/13 21:14, David Fletcher wrote: <blockquote style="direction: ltr;" type="cite">On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 15:14 +1000, Phil wrote: <blockquote style="direction: ltr;" type="cite">I'm proceeding slowly so as not to make matters worse, if that's possible, and I'll get back to the list once I have some good news. </blockquote> I know that whenever forensic investigations are done the first step is to image the disk and work from the copies. </blockquote> Thanks David, I thought about creating an image of each of the drives but I don't have suitable drives large enough on hand to hold the images. So, rather than muck about any longer I decided to post my laptop drive to a data recovery firm. I expect that I'll hear from them towards the end of next week. I'll report the outcome. </blockquote> Hi Phil Wouldn't it have been cheaper to by a Large Hard drive (many terabytes)? :-) Errol </body> </html>