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Data Recovery HELP!

  • 25-08-2004 7:49am
    #1
    MR DAZ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 799 ✭✭✭


    A friend of mine formatted his hd last week and re installed windows xp.....then he realised that he had up plugged the wrong drive...basicly he formatted his second hd which contained wedding pics, childs pictures etc...

    Bottom line is his wife will kill him!!!

    I was telling him that there is ways of recovering data ...but I'm not sure if it works after a format or re install..

    Any tips would be appreciated.....and any software you can recommend would be great.

    Cheers

    Darren


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  • #2
    maxheadroom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭maxheadroom


    The most important thig is for him to unplug that drive right now. only plug it in, as a slave, when he's ready to begin the recovery procedure.

    Provided there's been no access to the drive since the format mistake, he should be able to recover most of the data stored on it.

    The next thing to do is decide how much he's willing to spend, and how much data he wants back. If getting the data back at any cost is what he wants, he can send it to a data recovery company like krell ontrack. This would be among the simpler repair jobs they do, but it will still cost lots (like way over €500). The upside is that you're guarenteed to get about 99% of the data back.

    The next option would be to use a program like getdataback. This is very good software, and depending on the degree of damage to the filesystem on the drive, you're looking at between 25% to 99% recovery of files.


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,583 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Was the drive originally FAT or NTFS and which was it which was it formatted as ?

    If it was FAT and quick formatted as FAT then chances of recovery are high otherwise not so.

    Dos 5 used to have a nice little unformat utility and there are many other ones out there eg: norton utillities.


  • #4
    Virus_Inc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭Virus_Inc


    Ontrack Easy recovery... I'd swear by it... I accidentally deleted a whole lotta stuff and used this to recover it... it found not only the stuff that I'd deleted recently but stuff I'd binned months ago! It has an option for format recovery - restoring files from a formatted volume... have a copy of it floating about somewhere too


  • #5
    musician.ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 230 ✭✭musician.ie


    Little white lie? Maybe he could tap the HDD gently with a large sledgehammer, and tell his missus that it's dead and the data is gone. The data would still be irretrievable but at least he won't be blamed.

    All depends on whether he's more worried about the data or the ass-whupping.


  • #6
    MR DAZ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 799 ✭✭✭MR DAZ


    Thanks lads ..

    I'll get back to yee and let you know how it goes....

    and if it doesnt work......might try and buy a cheap sledge Hammer!


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  • #7
    maxheadroom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭maxheadroom


    bedlam wrote:
    Pluging the HDD in as slave still alows for data to be written to the hdd and will not prevent further data loss although it may reduce it. To prevent further data loss it should be connected up with a write blocker.

    He formatted and installed XP onto the HDD, thats a massive chunk of data written to the hard drive already add to that it was a week ago there could have been even more data written to the hdd that is going to greatly reduce the recovery of "99%" of the data.

    Ah - yes, I missed the fact that he installed XP on it. To be honest, something like getdatabcck will probably get you most of the files that haven't been overwritten, but if this is really important, send it to a specialist company.


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