Discusman Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Hi guys,I fomatted my HD and reinstalled Windows to my HD.Is it possible to recover some files from the HD before the formatting?I heard people need to format HD 40 times before you can really delete the information on the HD, is it true?I appreicate all inputs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 You cannot just recover formatted data. This can be done by professionals, but usually costs A LOT of money.See here for more information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Discusman Posted February 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Man, this is going to be suck.Now I have an outdated website. I didn't back up my website since June 2005. :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 ont know if this may help, http://www.canadiancontent.net/tech/downlo...ive_Rescue.html it says on the tin "Drive Rescue can find any lost and deleted data on your drive (e.g. hard disk) even if the partition table is lost or the hard disk has been quick-formatted." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Discusman Posted February 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 I see "Quick Formated" in the statement.I think I did Quick format one time and Slow format one time.. :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 I see "Quick Formated" in the statement.I think I did Quick format one time and Slow format one time.. :angry:Its free, so it cant do any harm to try it, can it ? If it dont find anything you haven`t lost anything, no pun intended ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Discusman Posted February 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 I see it only compatible with Windows 9x-Me and Windows NT-XP. Windows 2003 is not listed.I'm using a Windows 2003 Server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Friend of mine crashed his drive a few weeks back, thought he had lost everything, couldn't even access the drive when set up as a slave drive. 5 years of work mainly photos and yes they were backed up but to a partition on the same disk and he couldn't even access that. Used this program and it recovered over 90% of his work which I think was some 50 to 60 gb.Its a pay for, but as he said, worth every penny. Handy Recovery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 If you only formatted the drive, then the chances are very high that you can retrieve everything that you had before. But since you installed Windows on the drive, everything may have been overwritten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 When you delete something on your computer, it doesn't get erased off your hard drive. It gets labeled "ready to be overwritten" and the space it took up gets added to your hard drive again. When you put another file on your computer, it then overwrites the old file, completely erasing it. When you format your hard drive, it labels all files to be written over again. Then, when you install windows back into it, it writes over some of the files, but not all. That's why when you use a program to recover the files, it only finds about 90%, because windows has already written over some of them. Try using one of those programs, but don't expect it to recover all of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Here is a free undelete tool: http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Discusman Posted February 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Thanks guys. I would definitely try every program you people recommended here.I have several partitions on my HD. I reinstalled the Windows and it is installed on a separated volume as all my website files are stored at another.So from my hear from you guys, I think the chance that I may get my website files back is high cuz I didn't store or install anything on that volume yet.Wish me luck guys. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Good luck :) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 I had a similar problem a few months back and tried a number of free file recovery programmes - without too much success. Fortunately I recovered them to second hard drive so as not to disturb the hard drive I had formatted in error because it avoided any files being over-written.I eventually dug my hand in my pocket and downloaded File Scavenger from.....HereThis recovered about 95% of the deleted files from the formatted drive - but the directory structure was not intact - most of the files were all in the root directory and I had to manually recreate the old folder structure and move the files to them.See my original post....Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Discusman Posted February 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 I had a similar problem a few months back and tried a number of free file recovery programmes - without too much success. Fortunately I recovered them to second hard drive so as not to disturb the hard drive I had formatted in error because it avoided any files being over-written.I eventually dug my hand in my pocket and downloaded File Scavenger from.....HereThis recovered about 95% of the deleted files from the formatted drive - but the directory structure was not intact - most of the files were all in the root directory and I had to manually recreate the old folder structure and move the files to them.See my original post....HereThanks AlanHo,I will try that software too. I need to rebuild the folder structure on my server too. Also configure the server and many other things. It is going to be painful :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 I need to rebuild the folder structure on my server too. Also configure the server and many other things. It is going to be painful :unsure:Some reading for the future: Backups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Discusman Posted February 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Yeah I normally do backups. But I would getting lazy.. Now I'm in a deep hole.. I need to set up some auto scheduled backups later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Discusman Posted February 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 I had a similar problem a few months back and tried a number of free file recovery programmes - without too much success. Fortunately I recovered them to second hard drive so as not to disturb the hard drive I had formatted in error because it avoided any files being over-written.I eventually dug my hand in my pocket and downloaded File Scavenger from.....HereThis recovered about 95% of the deleted files from the formatted drive - but the directory structure was not intact - most of the files were all in the root directory and I had to manually recreate the old folder structure and move the files to them.See my original post....HereHi AlanHo,The software found alot of files. But I'm looking for Microsoft Access Database files. How can I find them? I don't see any files with the extension of .mdb..Should I install Microsoft Access to see the files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 HiOn reading this thread, i am not too sure on what files you want to get back from the formatted hard drive. You say your website files?Providing that you are not hosting the site from your computer (you say you are running W 2003 server so maybe you are)But if your site is hosted else where, can't you just download the website and all the relevant files using an FTP client?Sorry if i have got the wrong end of the stick about all this.Good luckTony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytree Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 I suggest you use data recovery software such as EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard to recover files.Download demo version: http://www.easeus.com/download.htmYou can use "FormatRecovery" to scan your partition. After the scan is complete, the lost file will be displayed in Data Recovery Wizard, you can select them and recover them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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