Step 5: Recovery

If you're here, you should have successfully turned your calculator on by using CLEAR + ON. Now you've got to ask yourself a question: What to you want to recover?

If you want something in RAM

Sorry milad; it's gone. That's why you should archive or group your programs occasionally. If you did that before the crash, and if you haven't had a GarbageCollect since, there's still hope you can recover some things from the archive. Look below for details.

If you want something in archive

First, here's a warning: Recovering things from the archive can take a lot of work, and can be dangerous (to the calculator). And then you have to remember that your archive is definitely corrupted in some way (but depending on how you got the crash, chances may be good it's just a small portion of it that's affected). If what you want to recover is something you can redo easily, you might as well start over. In that case, go to step 8 for final instructions.

Otherwise, you have a few options.

First of all, do you have Calcsys on your calculator? It's the best chance you have of recovering something. If you do, go on to step 6. If you don't, don't bother downloading it—you could risk overwriting data you want to recover.

If you don't, try using DrDnar's Archive Utility. It should be able to help you recover a few things, but make sure you read the instructions carefully. Remember that when you send it to your calculator, send it to RAM. Do not send it to the archive, or it might overwrite data you want to recover. After you finish recovering your programs, go to step 8 for final instructions.

If you can't transfer it for any reason, there's another way to recover things. Go to step 7.

If you don't care about recovering anything

Recovering variables can take a lot of work, and if you'd rather just redo it all, go to step 8 for final instructions.

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