Craig Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 Hi All.I formatted both my hard drives over the weekend after backing up some critical software to DVD. However i missed "My Documents" :o Anyone know of some good free data recovery software i can use to browse the hard drive to see if i can locate the documents?If possible, i would like something that shows the things it find in standard text that humans read and not hex stuff!Craig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 http://www.webattack.com/get/pcinspector.shtmlTry this ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 NTFS Reader for DOS is a FREEWARESoftware features:Can be saved and run from bootable floppy (download boot disk image) Displays complete physical and logical drive information Supports IDE / ATA / SCSI drives Supports large (more than 8GB) Hard Drive Supports NTFS, NTFS5 file systems for reading Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 file systems for data writing Supports compressed and fragmented files on NTFS Supports partitions created in MS-DOS, Windows XP.2000.NT.ME.98.95 Displays non-english and long file names Ability to preview file(s)/folder(s) before copying Supports search by file name or mask Disk Viewer displays content of the file in Hex/Text mode http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted March 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 Just tired the PC inspector.Looks like it is working, but i dont think it is going to find my data :( I think that as i used Active KillDisk to overwrite all my hard drive data :censored: At least i know the KillDisk software works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 The problem is that you would have reformatted the drive and its been wrtten to a few time since then.I have a feeling your data is gone or if not; partially. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 I think that as i used Active KillDisk to overwrite all my hard drive data :censored: At least i know the KillDisk software works.:o You didn't say that ! :( Not much hope then ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted March 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 I think that as i used Active KillDisk to overwrite all my hard drive data :censored: At least i know the KillDisk software works.:o You didn't say that ! :( Not much hope then ! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted March 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 Luckily i had backed up all my photos the week before, so the only thing i'm really missing is all my "Outlook" information, e.g. emails, contacts, calander. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/.Go to this site and try Disk Investigater, I used it to bring back some files I deleted 6 months ago and it recovered them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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