Retrieving Data After Wiping Hard Drive??

evil-monkey

Ok...here's the situation...

I wiped my girlfriend's PC this morning. I used the Windows XP disc to wipe and format the drive and put a completely clean installation on. She then tells me that there are files that her mother needs really badly for work (has no backups either)...any idea how I can recover these?? Never been in this situation before...

Thanks in advance

humaxf1

uh ohhhhhh

I've had fairly good success with get data back. when you get to the screen where it shows what you can recover, you have to cough up 90 odd quid to get a licence to activate the sw.

well worth it to get in your future in-law's good books

PS: there is a FAT32 & NTFS version available. Obiviously choose the version according to the file system you chose at setup

evil-monkey

humaxf1 wrote: »

well worth it to get in your future in-law's good books

lol

evil-monkey

gona see if i can get my hands on some software and see what it comes up with...

wish me luck!!

Gadgetman496

evil-monkey wrote: »

gona see if i can get my hands on some software and see what it comes up with...

wish me luck!!

I'd say you will definitely need something like this.

I have successfully used it to retrieve data from formatted drives.

http://lc-tech.com/software/frprodetail.html

Might sound expensive but it's nothing compared to the companies charging four figure sums to do similar work.

All depends on how "Mission critical" the data is (or the outlaws).

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Capt'n Midnight

if filenames aren't important then www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec is yer man , totally free and now recognises even more file types

MooseJam

if you reinstalled an os over it i'd say your chances of recovering anything are pretty slim

gamer

see free prog www.pcinspector.de ,but you need to buy a usb drive enclosure or else set the drive up as a slave drive in a pc ,drive d,and dont use that laptop for anything,install nothing on the harddrive,dont use the net,search this forum, retrieving files ,recover files , undelete files.some data will be lost by installing os, but os only takes up 7 or 8gigabytes.Theres free progs that,ll run from a live cdrom examine the hd and tell you exactly what files ,data can be recovered.

the_syco

MooseJam wrote: »

if you reinstalled an os over it i'd say your chances of recovering anything are pretty slim

I did a format, and a reinstall of Windows, but O&O Disk Recovery got files back for me.

daftdave

the_syco wrote: »

I did a format, and a reinstall of Windows, but O&O Disk Recovery got files back for me.

there is a free copy of that program in the magazine PC pro

issue 168 oct 2008

Gadgetman496

daftdave wrote: »

there is a free copy of that program in the magazine PC pro

issue 168 oct 2008

Will that be a Trial or restricted in any way?


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daftdave

gadgetman496 wrote: »

Will that be a Trial or restricted in any way?


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no man, it is the full product, there is also a full copy of a program called titan backup

Gadgetman496

daftdave wrote: »

no man, it is the full product, there is also a full copy of a program called titan backup

If that's the case it's not bad as it retails for Approx €80

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