Animal Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Our IT department have just wiped all the music off my portable hard drive! Bastards! They randomly run a batch fiile to delete any music files from the office pc's and it's wiped everything off the usb drive I had plugged in. No warning, nothing. Even better, I had just deleted it all off my home pc to free up space before I got a new drive today, so I've lost 35Gb of music. Anyone got any fire restoration software? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Anyone got any fire restoration software? Erm sorry for your loss, was any of the music burnt to any other device? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 no way! thats terrible. i did the same but I gave everyone 5 days warning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian R Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 So you were using company mass storage for your personal files and they clear it and you complain ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animal Posted July 5, 2007 Author Share Posted July 5, 2007 No, I was using my own PERSONAL mass storage for listening to music and they chose to delete it without warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ark Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 So you had proscribed materials on an unsanctioned device, plugged into a corporate machine? You're lucky deletion is all they did. That can quite easily get you up on a disciplinary in some places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Walker Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 No, I was using my own PERSONAL mass storage for listening to music and they chose to delete it without warning. How nice of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Use a program called GetDataBack from Runtime software.. In all fairness I'm suprised they even let you connect a none approved data storage device to the corporate network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian R Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 No, I was using my own PERSONAL mass storage for listening to music and they chose to delete it without warning. In that case $%^$%^ *(&*& *(&*(& &^$"£ F"%$ers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 No, I was using my own PERSONAL mass storage for listening to music and they chose to delete it without warning. So had you connected a piece of hardware to the company system with out getting clearence from IT first? teehee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supragal Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 So I take it I'm the only one thinking "Tough Luck" given you almost certainly signed an agreement saying you wouldn't use their equipment for personal use Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ark Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 So I take it I'm the only one thinking "Tough Luck" given you almost certainly signed an agreement saying you wouldn't use their equipment for personal use Clearly not: ... In all fairness I'm suprised they even let you connect a none approved data storage device to the corporate network. So you had proscribed materials on an unsanctioned device, plugged into a corporate machine? You're lucky deletion is all they did. That can quite easily get you up on a disciplinary in some places. So had you connected a piece of hardware to the company system with out getting clearence from IT first? teehee Some sysadmins would've loaded up a virus or two, or "discovered" some kiddy-porn...just for good measure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_mcevoy Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 I've used Stellar Phoenix to recover my HD after I formatted the wrong one during a Windows Install, brought everything back http://www.stellarinfo.com/fullversion/ntphoenix.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Sorry guy, no sympathy from me either mate. :p:p:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edge Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 No idea what to do but i have a few hundred gig of music if you want it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animal Posted July 5, 2007 Author Share Posted July 5, 2007 Some sysadmins would've "discovered" some kiddy-porn...just for good measure. And they'd have got their fucking legs broken, too. That's just wrong. So, any devious IT bods know if there is a way to protect future files from deletion? There's nothing in any of out contracts or the company's e-policy about mass storage devices. I'm not put-off that easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animal Posted July 5, 2007 Author Share Posted July 5, 2007 No idea what to do but i have a few hundred gig of music if you want it? Ooh, anything good in the way of Rock, Metal, Thrash, etc? I'm always open to offers of new sounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Restorer Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Most companies allow limited personal use of the company assets. In fact, I do exactly the same thing, off the Usb drive and if anything it saves company resources, 'cos I ain't listening to Internet Radio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBDJ Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 So, any devious IT bods know if there is a way to protect future files from deletion? There's nothing in any of out contracts or the company's e-policy about mass storage devices. I'm not put-off that easily. On XP SP2 you can mount USB filesystems as read-only, by using registry editor, navigating to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control, then creating a new key called StorageDevicePolicies. Inside that create a new value called WriteProtect with a value of 1. However, you'll need to be an administrator to do this... Another option would be a hardware device to make the drive read-only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jive Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Had an interesting one the other day, some new bint in our organisation had said to a member of staff that it was perfectly ok for him to bring his own laptop in from home and plug it into our network - which I found out after spitting my dummy out - that all he wanted to do was send email(s) to another member of staff! Quite politely told the new member of staff that if they tried that kinda crap again then they'd be having serious problems doing their work very easily and never tell anyone else that they can just bring their own laptops into work to connect onto our LAN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 So, any devious IT bods know if there is a way to protect future files from deletion? Yep, flip the Read Only tag across on the USB device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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