Newsletter March 2005 - page 3

Subscriptions

Its that time of the year again, your subscription is due for renewal. The subscription rates for this year remain unchanged at £ 12.00 for full membership and the associate member remains unchanged at £ 1.00.

Cheques should be made payable to Melton Computer Club.
With the change in name of the club we would like to take the opportunity to update our records and ensure we have correct membership details. We are enclosing a new membership application form which we would like returned with your subscription.

Larry gave us a very interesting presentation on recovering lost data. I am sure that at some time we have all deleted files that we should not have done. With the current versions of windows you get a second chance to recover most files from the recycle bin.

The big problem comes when you get a message such as missing operating system or invalid system disk or in fact any other message that indicates you cannot access the disk. This could be a Hard drive or even a memory stick.

If you find yourself in this situation all is not lost there are several software packages available that will attempt to recover your data for you. Larry gave us a demonstration of Get Data Back which comes in two versions, the first for FAT 32 systems and the second for NTFS systems.

In order to use all of these packages you must have a second hard disk to install the software on and space for the recovered files to be stored. The process is quite time consuming so don’t expect to be able to do a large hard disk in a few minutes.

Following this Larry gave us an update on the latest free anti-virus software from AVG . He also gave us a brief overview of Microsoft’s new anti spyware software which is currently available as a free beta download, but do read the antispyware warning in the next article.

Derek

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