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I formated my C drive and I had so many files on there. Is there a way or software that can do this? I just done it so it would be poosible I think since not so much time has passed. Anyone help me on this one and I am forever greatful! I installed "Windows Media Center Edition" with service pack two.
Thanks
try ontrack easyrecovery
it has search formatted
If you installed Windows, the files in the space ocuppied by the installation aren't possible to recover i think. Only sections where new files weren't recorded...
Your Fucked ! I'v been privy to some very expensive so called recovery programs and they lied .
Good luck with that I tried to recover some stuff of mine when it was reformated and all I could find was junk. still if you have any success let us know about how you did it.
I am trying different softwares and it's ok so far. No breakthrough yet but the more I try the closer I get. If the governmant can see your files after they are formated I am sure we can also. I just need to find the right software to dig deep!
Will keep you informed tho!
use hiren's boot cd v8.4
it has the following
Recovery Tools:
- Active Partition Recovery 3.0 - To Recover a Deleted partition.
- Active Uneraser 3.0 - To recover deleted files and folders on FAT and NTFS systems.
- Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro 6.10 - To Recover data that has been deleted/virus attack
- Winternals Disk Commander 1.1 - more than just a standard deleted-file recovery utility
- TestDisk 6.5b - Tool to check and undelete partition.
- Lost & Found 1.06 - a good old data recovery software.
- DiyDataRecovery Diskpatch 2.1.100 - An excellent data recovery software.
- Prosoft Media Tools 5.0 v1.1.2.64 - Another excellent data recovery software with many other options.
- PhotoRec 6.5b - File and pictures recovery Tool.
+ TONZ of other tools
also u could try iolo's Search and Recover 3
http://www.getdata.com/ is the best i tryed out of almost all known recovery software, since most of people here only know what they heard is the best, i tryed most of them, cause i had your problem 2 times. You will have it hard to recover files after you formated or if you copied anything on the disk since than. You have to know that lots of recovery software find all the files but they fail to recover usefull, not corrupted files. Don't ever recover files on same disk.
dude i tried many if not more,went thru the same shit Kzboy went thru, ontrack recovered most of my formatted drive easy.Quote:
Originally Posted by limesqueezer
I tryed easy recovery also, but didn't helped me. Could be that now its better or i used the wrong version.Quote:
Originally Posted by 100%
I tried almost everything but nothing works. I think it's because I installed windows over it when I formated.
Thank for the help!
Hmmm, you should be able to recover something...
I've tried recover2000 and recovered most of the things although i should say, some of the files where corrupt :(
I guess something like this only the government can do.
did you try GetDataBack ?
Yep tried it but not as good as Recover My Files. It got for me stuff I needed and couldn't get the bigger things like a AVI file.
The government gets it's software from somewhere... :naughty:Quote:
Originally Posted by KazaaBoy
Well don't know about government or software, but i know its done with big machine to recover files from a pc of their choice of some criminal, it takes lots of time, whole day probably and it goes byte by byte. I know germans have that, saw it on tv once.
If I format my C drive, there is a way to restore the files I formatted?
I did not think this was possible.
I always figured that formatting deletes everything.
I think if we format and fill up the drive about 10 times, there's no way they can recover...
I think if the authorities in a country want to see what is or has ever been on a hard drive, then they'll go a long way to find out. I think that they'd eventually get what they want, too.
If anyone's gonna dump a computer or hard drive at the local amenity site, their best chance of preventing information falling into the hands of thrid-world (give a big wave to Nigeria, everyone) ID thieves is to modify the hard drive with a 4lb hammer first.
This wouldn't prevent governmental agencies with the wherewithall and inclination to find data though; for that I'd say nuke it. :lol:
I thought the same too but apparently when it formats it just overwrites the blocks as empty....but the data is not deleted until new data is added.:) Anywayz if you do a full format...not the quick one would that erase all previous data and make it unrecoverable. Or does it not matter what type of format takes place and therefore is all the data recoverable regardless of this?:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by cool skill
DOS has UNFORMAT command.
This makes no sense. I have a few hard drives that I have formatted many times over. I don't even know what a quick format is for a hard drive.
I have to go to DOS, and format my hard drive.
Once it is formatted, it is completely empty. No files found. I them proceed to install XP and other software. 100% free space. If I have a 200GB hard drive, I can now put in 200GB worth of information into it. It cannot possibly store the previous information, and continue to add the new information. It would go beyond its limited capacity which seems to me as logically impossible.
When it is time to format it again, I do so. Again, I can fill up and empty 200GB hard drive with 200GB worth of brand new information. How could it possibly be that a formatted hard drive can be unformatted when everything in it is gone?
Well... The previous information leaves residual magnetism even under the newly written data. Enough for law enforcement to retrieve data.Quote:
Originally Posted by cool skill
To prevent data access, you would need to write over the disk several times.
http://www.killdisk.com/Quote:
Active@ KillDisk Professional version suggests several methods for data destruction. For example, in US DoD 5220.22-M method it overwrites all addressable storage and indexing locations on the drive three times: with zeros (0x00), complement (0xFF) and random characters; and then verifies all writing procedures. This complies with the US DoD 5220.22-M security standard.
Crap! So that means I could have recovered all of that info form my old hard drive that fried?
As long as you don't open the disk and damage the platter you can recover it and also if its damged little it is possible but not with softwares only. You would need to have a laboratory than. :P
if you have some divx movies and mp3's, quick format will suffice
if you hacked FBI.. then use 5 kg hammer and then throw the hdd out of the window
if you have some extra important info that you need to recover - pay the professionals. There are enough data recovery firms out tere on the market. The prices could be from 1$ for 1mb to 1$ for 1 kb!!