Data Recovery HELP [Archive]

Skeptikal

October 29th, 2002, 02:59 PM

hi !!
Got some big troubles with my HDD... Does anyone knows a good Data Recovery software? (Ontrack EasyRecovery didn't made the job for me :'( ).

Please help !!!!

Thanks,.

Vladd44

October 29th, 2002, 03:39 PM

Easy recovery in raw mode didnt? wow.

Sorry that has pretty much been my salvation all the time

Skeptikal

October 29th, 2002, 03:43 PM

I only want to recover a few images and zip filed I have deleted by mistake...
I've reformated the disk they were on and re-installed winXP on it...
Is there any way I could get them back...

Please anyone help !!

grab_grab_the_haddock

October 29th, 2002, 03:46 PM

Originally posted by Skeptikal
I only want to recover a few images and zip filed I have deleted by mistake...
I've reformated the disk they were on and re-installed winXP on it...
Is there any way I could get them back...

Please anyone help !!

you gotta be kiddin........

Skeptikal

October 29th, 2002, 03:51 PM

Badly, I'm not kidding...

I really don't know how to recover that and if it is even possible...
Help .

CCSDUDE

October 29th, 2002, 06:17 PM

Originally posted by Skeptikal
Badly, I'm not kidding...

I really don't know how to recover that and if it is even possible...
Help .

How long ago were the files in question created?

Skeptikal

October 29th, 2002, 06:26 PM

... Were created about a week before reformating....
Hope that helps

Skeptikal

October 29th, 2002, 06:59 PM

Thanks to everyone !
Thanks so much, Krell, I'm going to check out for the dti Data... and hope it will work...

and yep, my file system is NTFS... I hope i'll make it.

Thanks again,

ston

October 30th, 2002, 04:39 AM

Something that I find myself always recommending to people, for many, many reasons, is to partition their hard drive.

By storing files that you want to save on a separate HD partition, you will have a greater chance of recovering them if accidently erased. (I assign the most disk-intensive functions, like the Windows page/swap file and browser cache to their own dedicated partition in the outermost[fastest] part of the disk)

Since I assume you reinstalled the o.s. over the same partition as your files were stored on, and you are probably continuing to use your pc, the chance of recovering them is probably not very good.

But now is a good time to prepare yourself for the next time you need to recover data. Install the recovery programs and make recovery boot floppies for next time.

method

October 30th, 2002, 06:37 AM

Use GetDataBack for Fat32 or NTFS.

You could also try RS-Studio.

GetDataBack has retrieved projects from a HD that I corrupted, AND had to format AND reinstall windows on...

Even after all of that, a good 85%+ of my 20GB HD was totally restorable!!! And that is NOT bullshit.. Can't guarantee results but it worked for me and got back some project I'd spent months on!! ;)