How to recover after formatting?

There are quite a few small software programs that aren't very efficient. You can try Easy Recovery from V-Com (formerly Ontrack). It's pretty good, but the trial version is limited to a few files. You'll see it works well; I recovered some files from a floppy disk that my sister had chewed up before throwing it in the toilet. The software found part of my files. ;).

Hi everyone,

Uh it's not possible guys, once formatted it's formatted, he erased everything, that's why we ask you 15 times to confirm if you want to format the disk.

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Virtuaklem
not that hard, computing

You can try the time machine, but I don't see any other solutions :)

Try GetDataBack (http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm), it is very effective for that.

I also found this: http://www.uneraser.com/quest12.htm

PS for: Virtuaklem, we should check before giving false information (a simple unformat search on Google...)

See you +

Computing is not that simple.

Hello,

As long as the file allocation table (the "summary" of the files, in fact) has not been erased, recovery remains possible. How do you think the police (and the Justice system), thieves, spies, and the like manage to find hidden information? Through this "basic" process. A file that has been sent to the trash remains readable as long as nothing has been written to its location. To make it definitively unrecoverable, you need to overwrite it with random series of 1s and 0s.

So, if there really was formatting, recovery is supposed to be impossible.

If there was an accident, we can always try; after all, nothing to lose! And there's no need to pay for the appropriate software; There is PC Inspector File Recovery, in French and free. This software can handle NTFS.

See the full list of data recovery software for each system (Windows, Mac, Linux):
Data recovery software

A dicias !-)))

We can only explain well what we understand perfectly.

Getdataback allowed me to recover the contents of my reinstalled and reformatted hard drive... incredible but it's possible (that said it was a quick format).

For your information,

I foolishly crashed (PC crash) an Iomega Peerless cartridge (a 20GB removable hard drive with FireWire). The system no longer recognizes this cartridge!

Drive Rescue was able to recover 95% of the data (that's quite good, the other 5% of files being permanently damaged [not too serious!]). As an anecdote, however, my cartridge seems to be ruined (no way to format it)!

See you! -)))

Hello and thank you Teutates,
That’s quite a response. PHEW!!!
As for your question, it was before the defrag of course... but what you’re telling me, I will keep it carefully in a corner.
Thanks a million, Teutou ;-))))

http://abarka.free.fr
An adult sitting sees further than a young person standing.

Thank you Windows XP!!!! I have 2 hard drives: the first one serves as my system drive and the second one as a backup drive (which held all my very important documents!). When I tried to format my system drive, I wasn't paying attention, and Windows XP Pro formatted the backup drive.... A year and a half of work wiped out in a few minutes!!!! Is there a way to recover anything??? Knowing that this drive was FAT and is now NTFS.... Help!! Please respond if you know... thank you in advance.

For your information regarding the corrupted allocation table:
Norton Utility 2001 (the CD that still boots at startup, not the new one) can restore a FAT partition whose allocation table has been destroyed: filled with zeros.

JD

a little comment about all these beautiful magical data recovery software... it works under FAT but the gentleman has XP Pro so he should normally be on NTFS... and for me that's impossible.

I just wanted to tell you something guys...

I've started to know a bit about this, and the thing is, in 72 hours, I've recovered codes that I had saved, formatted (completely, not quickly) and written over...

The principle is simple, the 0s and 1s are actually clusters charged with electricity... And the thing is, even after a state change, there is always a residue of the charge, positive (1) or negative (0), of the data that was previously stored on the disk...

I gently took out my disk and carefully analyzed it, and after passive reading of the disk, and complex calculations of the "remains" of charges, I was able to recover my disk to 85% of its original state...
But for that, you need another disk, a bit of gear, and above all, knowledge...

So scratch a little more, you'll find...
(P.S.: the programs I used were created by the German Police, and thus in German, but they are out there... look in some pirate corners... Then, understand and act! And don't clutter the forums with "it's not possible.... blah blah blah...")

Thanks a lot...

And one piece of advice... www.polizei.de, forget it, that's not where you'll find it... But most of the time, we don't need all that arsenal!!!

TOXIC is 100% right:
- regarding magnetism, there are always residues, SO it is always possible to recover data. The rest is just a matter of sensitivity and means.
- which brings us to the second point:
since not everyone has the equipment/knowledge necessary to recover after messing up (like saying it's not my fault, it's Windows that's wrong), it's better to print the essential data, the vital ones even if they are just a few megabytes, as for the rest... astala vista...

Hello,

All these messages give me hope, but I haven't been able to sleep for 2 days because my data on the disk was so important.
I'm on XP and my files are in NTFS
I have a hard drive partitioned into 2 (operating system and data).
Like others, when reinstalling XP, it formatted both disks in quick NTFS.
I reinstalled XP on the partition where the OS was and didn't touch the partition where the data was.
I tried to recover using Easy Recovery Pro 6, but it found nothing, the same for File Recovery...
Which software is most likely to work given my situation?
If a software recovers something for me, can I save it on my data recovered from my XP partition, or do I need to have a physically different hard drive?
Please Help, what stressssss

Flamani

Thanks.

Hi floums,
I don't know you, but I understand you, we're in the same boat... It's been three weeks since I've been struggling to recover files (jpeg). I've tried so many software programs without success that I can only wish you good luck. As for me, there's still a company in Germany that offers a search, but it's paid (90 Euros and then it depends on the number of photos recovered). I'm about to give in... it's the one that offers smart recovery (free but for flash-type cards and limited in size to a few hundred MB). And to think that some people know how to use the disk magnetization directly!!!
Good luck

Hi,

I managed to recover 70% of my drive using Get Data Back, which turned out to be more effective than all the others that found absolutely nothing.
PHEW! It found almost all of my photos but nothing in terms of music (.mp3).

Good luck to everyone!

Hello, while installing Windows XP on my PC with 2 IDE hard drives, I accidentally erased the partition of drive D. Is it possible to recover the data? I haven't formatted drive D yet, I tried TestDisk, but it didn't work. Thank you in advance, I'm not a computer pro!

Hi Foxy48
Yes, PROVIDED that you don't write on it. Download (if you haven't already) the software "Restoration.exe". I can't find the post where we talked about it, someone is offering it for download on their site but you should be able to find it on Google.

http://abarka.free.fr
An adult sitting sees further than a young person standing.

Yes, it is possible to recover part of your disk with Easy Recovery; look for the link and you will find it.