accidently i formatted my logical drive. now i want to recover my data. my HDD size is 160 GB and its SATA . it has 2 primary and a logical drive.
how to recover a formated disk/drive…?? please suggest any free software to recover the data..?
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Johnny M
March 17, 2010 at 12:07 am
In short, you can’t…
paigums
March 17, 2010 at 12:43 am
http://www.tucows.com/article/1711
- This one shows you, “How To Recover Data From A Formatted Drive.”
If this fails, you could try buying software from these sites
http://www.recovermyfiles.com/
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/recover-formatted-partition.htm
Good Luck
Colanth
March 17, 2010 at 1:25 am
If you did a quick format, Photorec will recover any recoverable files. If you did a full format you need a scanning electron microscope, a cleanroom and a technician who knows how to use a SEM to recover a disk drive. (And there’s no guarantee that all the data is recoverable, but there is one that the procedure is very expensive.)
The only problem with PhotoRec is that it will recover ALL the files on the drive, deleted or not, that it recognizes, but it won’t recover the filenames, only the types. You’ll have to look at each recovered file to see what it is. And the files have to be recovered to another drive.
If you had just deleted the partitions, recovery would have been a lot easier.
Jessica Queller
March 17, 2010 at 2:16 am
Photorec is the way to go.
Instructions (with screenshots) here:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/recovering-windows-files-with-a-ubuntu-cd-iii-deleted-files/