Recover Data Files, Unerase Files

Look up info on the “unformat” command, unfortunatlly it probably have to be done from an external enclosure

http://www.computerhope.com/unformat.htm

Find the info from the MS website, its just to much to type out for me, or try some 3rd party software. I don’t know what to reccomend on 3rd party stuff except maybee norton disc and file recover

A question: Did you write data to the hard disk after formatting? If you did, you’re not going to get the data back.

I used Stellar Phoenix and recovered a repartitioned and reformatted drive with a new installation of WindowsXP over the old data.

I recovered all of the “my documents” folder which was still there.

I was lucky in my case because if files were written over it, they would have been lost for good.

I paid $100 for the software 3 years ago, but it was worth it and I have used it two more times since then due to a couple of operator induced screw-ups (me). They emailed me an activation number which was good for only one computer. I saved the email message on an online server and when I tried to reactivate it on the same computer several years later, it still worked.

There are some freeware programs that perform file recovery and I have tried them, they work also.

The most important thing to do is not to try to boot up or run Windows from that disk. If you have another drive, install Windows to it and run the recovery programs from that and do nothing to the original disk other than read from it in your recovery attempts. Windows constantly writes to the disk and will potentially destroy any data on it.

Good Luck