It relies on you have shadow copies enabled - if they were, you can retrieve data, pre them getting encrypted, if you haven't then no. (and before anyone says, no not everybody would know to do this, I am a very experienced IT professional and this didn't come to my mind immediately)
For example, virus hit us on Sunday, however I set our shadow copies to run Mon-Fri, twice per day, so i was able to get my data from Friday.
No real damage done.
I really don't appreciate comments made by some of you when all i'm actually trying to do is help people with possibly recovering some data they deemed lost.
Problem with forums is everyone expects the worst in people and I feel like why the hell should i bother doing this sort of thing anymore, if i get comments like this.
Yes it made have seemed like I was doing something "dodgy", but really people, don't think the worst of someone without actually knowing them.
So Eros & Fragition, what you got to say now? If i was such a troll, surely I wouldnt then post what I did to recover my data? I am certainly no fool, nor a junior, and this will be the last time I bother trying to help anybody with IT problems.
Edited by jwatson, 27 February 2014 - 01:30 PM.