Can anybody save my life???

Greenday · Post by **Greenday** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 7:07 pm

This is a computer related work problem that i need help with, I had a Windows 2000 machine with a system partition on C and a data partition which was D, i then stupidly reimaged the machine then created the logical drive D for data and formatted it, now i find out that the owner had left stuff on the data drive that they had not backed up, can anyone recommend a good file recovery program and how much of the data am i likely to get back?

PLEASE HELP

Thanks

MattB · Post by **MattB** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 7:16 pm

You could try & get hold of Partition Magic - I believe that can do something like recover files after a quick format.

Or do a search on google for something like "disk format recover" and some tools come up.

Greenday · Post by **Greenday** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 7:19 pm

You could try & get hold of Partition Magic - I believe that can do something like recover files after a quick format.

Or do a search on google for something like "disk format recover" and some tools come up.

Cheers, i've got some tools to try, just wondered if i was completely doomed or not

stephen T · Post by **stephen T** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 12:33 pm

i think norton utilities has recovery apps. but partition magic is meant to be good to.

CB · Post by CB » Sat Jun 28, 2003 12:46 pm

: I have no idea what you guys are on about when you start off on these topics. Oh well, I'll hijack it anyway

Greenday · Post by **Greenday** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 2:48 pm

: I have no idea what you guys are on about when you start off on these topics. Oh well, I'll hijack it anyway

Sorru it was a last ditch effort to save myself from certain doom on Monday

CB · Post by CB » Sat Jun 28, 2003 3:06 pm

What about the certain doom you face tomorrow at Thorpe Park?

Greenday · Post by **Greenday** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 3:58 pm

I've already excepted that

Alex LS · Post by **Alex LS** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 7:30 pm

You're never completely doomed as long as you haven't written any data to the drive and you haven't physically destroyed it. If you can't recover the data yourself using undelete or unformat tools, you can send it off and pay a shedload to have the data recovered (if it's important enough).

Greenday · Post by **Greenday** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 7:39 pm

It is more the timescale they need it in that rules out sending it away, data shouldn't have been written over the top on the partition was formated

stephen T · Post by **stephen T** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 7:45 pm

take out the hdd and put a screwdriver to it. tell them its fukd and not your fault.

carl · Post by **carl** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 12:46 am

I believe that http://www.ontrack.co.uk have a free application you can download to determine whether the data's recoverable. Obviously you have to pay them to actually recover the data.

Greenday · Post by **Greenday** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 12:54 am

I believe that http://www.ontrack.co.uk have a free application you can download to determine whether the data's recoverable. Obviously you have to pay them to actually recover the data.

Great thanks, i'll give them a try

Pauline · Post by **Pauline** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 8:34 pm

Is that a disk drive you're staring at in your photo, errrrr, I mean avatar?