Hello,
I just finished formatting a hard drive when I now realize that pictures I thought I had backed up on a dvd had not been. I am currently running a program to try to recover the data. I originally did a format and reinstalled a few applications including windows xp. Does anybody know my chances of success or a program that may be better then the others :S thanks
jdc
March 22, 2010 at 3:47 am
you’re screwed. that’s what reformatting does. otherwise you’d get viruses comming back from the dead
supi616
March 22, 2010 at 3:47 am
Yea data lost in formatting is gone forever.
De Deuce
March 22, 2010 at 3:50 am
The BEST program in the world will return a ZERO percent chance of data recovery. The reason is that you FORMATED the hard drive. This means that you totally reset ALL of the data bits to O’s. wiping out ALL vestiges of information. There is NOTHING to recover. Sorry.
[EDIT] All these thumbs down sounds like Andrew J don’t like Deet dee DEE for an answer. What part of ZIP don’t he understand?
2
March 22, 2010 at 4:09 am
chance of 9% recovery for a format drive.
get another drive and install your os then
install your lost data drive as slave if ide.
then install the recovery software on the os drive.
retrieve and recovery your lost data drive to your OS drive.
do not install os on your lost data drive and do not install recovery software on the lost data drive too because it will corrupt your lost data files.
use good recovery software e.g r-studio. I use that software for my recovery.
m y
March 22, 2010 at 5:00 am
if data writed the partition u had data on it,u cant recover it,Final data and get data back is good software. i m afraid
yap_jp
March 22, 2010 at 5:17 am
To recover data, you can use Pandora Recovery http://pandorarecovery.com
Dave N
March 22, 2010 at 5:49 am
since formatting is ONLY REMOVING THE INDEX OF YOUR DATA, AND DOES NOT ACTUALLY ERASE ANY FILES, if you had not written anything to the disc, you would have been able to recover almost all of it.
heres Google search:
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Answers R Us
March 22, 2010 at 6:23 am
A lot of the time the data is still there, that’s why people make headline news.
Norton used to have a program years ago that proved that, you could wander around the hard drive and see all the files.
The issue is that re-formatting erases the index and so it can be difficult to piece files back together, the file is linked like a chain but the pieces may not be one after the other on the hard drive. If the link is broken then the file may be lost.
If you try a recover program DON’T install anything on the drive, the moment you do it will start to over write the index and you will be deeper in trouble.
Good format programs normally overwrite the data twice using different (and sometimes random) values – that way you can’t guess what the data was and it ensures you cant recalculate checksums to find out what it used to be.