I was wondering if its possible to recover the data I lost or is everything gone permanently? I rebooted and reinstalled everything after having a virus and also I have a 500gb HD and was wondering if I would be able to recover deleted data from 2 months ago?
I Had To Reboot My Computer Like Around 8 Months Ago Because Of A Virus, Is There A Chance Of Recovering Data?
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mshearer
September 20, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Hey there,
Every time windows saves something, it also encrypts another copy in the hard drive (this is why if you create a 2MB document and delete it, you wont get 2mb space back).
I would take your computer to a PC repair shop and see if they have the facility to decrypt the hard drive and recover the data. This is how organisations such as the Police recover supposedly deleted data to use as evidence.
PixelRai
September 20, 2009 at 9:45 pm
More than likely you have waited too long, but, you could try DirectorySnoop.
I use this quite a bit for cleaning old files out of the computer, but, the software can also recover deleted files from the hard drive.http://www.briggsoft.com/dsnoop.htm
Download
You get 25 fully operational on the trial
Run the software
When running, select your hard drive, usually C
then select the “Del” column
All the files that have been deleted are in red.
Belhaven
September 20, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Yes you can but it depends of what kind of file it is,because there is a software called data recovery or software that can recover the file as long as you did not format it. But it depend of what kind of file it is jpeg doc html can recover almost 100%. but if was been formated very slim of probability almost 20% chances or never.
salvador p
September 20, 2009 at 10:06 pm
There are utilities that can scan your disk for lost files, but the chances of recovering something after using the disk for months is pretty slim.
Check some of these out if you are interested:http://www.google.com/search?q=free+file…
And just to warn you, any utility that is made for finding lost files will take many hours to do a scan, then long amounts of time trying to actually recover the files. And it also needs a separate disk to write the recovered files to.
Plan on spending a whole weekend doing this if you decide to (Most of the time will be waiting for the scans to get done)
SunMi
September 20, 2009 at 10:10 pm
I would very much doubt it. Your data may not have been instantly over-written, but the more you used the drive the more often the data would have been altered, and the space re-used. After 2months of writes, there won’t be anything.
Shwaa
September 20, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Download Zonealarm 2009 Pro for free on 11/18/2008: http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/s…
bob taskbar
September 20, 2009 at 11:33 pm
not much if you have been using your computer you might look how far back your restore points go back
David R
September 21, 2009 at 12:17 am
I doubt it after that long of using the drive. How much is it worth to you? Just had a small drive (50 gb) recovered ($1300)
Psychic Computer Repair
September 21, 2009 at 1:02 am
if you want to pay $400-500 for data recovery, and only MAYBE!!!
MattD
September 21, 2009 at 1:53 am
no chance m8
gary p
September 21, 2009 at 2:20 am
ouch… too bad, it is all lost. i feel for you =(