Can I recover lost data from an .mdf or .ldf file?

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Recover lost data from .LDF file

Background: Using Business Contacts Manager 2010 with SQL 2008. Master database is hosted through SQL and each computer connects. When the connection is stopped, each computer switches to local copy of the database. When connection is available again, the changes are synced into the master database. Issue: When syncing the data from local to master, an error occured and all records after the error didn't trasfer the changes and erased the changes from the local database. Is there any way to retrieve...

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You need to restore the last full backup, then all transaction logs in sequence, issuing a STOP AT for...

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Data Recovery: How would you recover a .txt file from a lost HFS+ (Mac) partition?

All the software that I have found on the internet seems to recover special files like .doc .rtf .mp4 that have some special header information or something like that, but no plain-text files. My power went off all of a sudden and now my Mac won't boot...

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Have taken all your desired TXT files back from that partition? If not, in your case, you need try partition...

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How do I recover the data from a text file showing up as empty in Windows?

I just lost a month's worth of journal entries in a locally saved plaintext file. Is there any way to get them back? Went out last night, and left my computer on as usual, with Firefox, Gaim, and a TED Notepad window open with a file containing what...

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The only thing I can think of is using a low-level disk utility that examines the contents of the harddrive...

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How do I recover data from an orphaned Outlook .OST file?

How do I recover lost offline OUTLOOK contacts and calendar data? When trying to set up an outlook POP for GMail I removed the 'exchange server' that I thought was associated with a former employer. This apparently deleted my off-line contacts and my...

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Try this.

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How to recover the lost data?

Okay so well yea i had cut this data from microsoft word and i had not saved the file ..as i wanted to transfer the data to another account on my computer but idk i cannot paste it ...show more

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Nothing is more important than life. If life is there you can do wonders. This is only a data. This...

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[URGENT] I lost my 400 GB partition, How to Recover Some data?

i really really need help, URGENT, i dont know how my 400 GB partition file deleted, Please help me, what should i do, i lost my premium things and everythings.. :'(

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You need to provide more information if you need help - What kind of OS you are using, is it a virtual...

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How to recover Outlook Notes without Outlook

How can I recover data in Outlook Notes without having Outlook? My computer crashed and I lost the passphrase to get onto my wireless modem. I had it saved in Outlook Notes in three places, my work computer, blackberry and home computer. I left my job...

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What you need is your Outlook PST file. By default it's located in C:\Documents and Settings\username...

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Can you recover deleted files using softwares?

Windows XP can you really recover deleted datas? Even if it's not in recycle bin? How far back/old can the deleted files be for it to be possible to recover? Read the idea from link http://www.tech-pro.net/how-to-recover-deleted-files.html A section...

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You can POTENTIALLY get back files. It all depends on how long ago and how much disk activity has gone...

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Any free way to recover my data from my PSP memory stick?

I had a computer that had a virus on it so I decided to try to copy some very important files that I had on my computer to my memory stick before I reinstalled the OS on my computer. I had already had my music and my pictures I made(yes I make my own...

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Well, there are many freeware software’s and other programs that can help you to retrieve all...

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Mac export file list from spotlight data?

Sadly I have lost around 640GB of data. I only really need a file list to know what i need to recover. I have several files with extensions like .indexposition, .indexarrays, store.db, etc from the spotlight folder for that drive. This theoretically...

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You can use Nice to Recover Data for Mac software to recover lost files from both Mac hard drive and...

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