I formated a partition in my hard drive by accident. I was installing Windows xp, and it showed one of my drives as unformated, so I decided to format it. After I did this, I realised that this was 70 gigs of data that I had, and that it was in fact a fully functional ntfs drive. I don't want to bore you with the details, but I have been trying to download a few different types of software to recover my data. One of them is called "Get data back", but when I ran that, it did not show any of my original files or folders. I am now in the middle of recovering it with another software called EASEUS, and it is also not showing any of my original files or folders. Instead it is showing a bunch of gz files. When I unzip these files, they say something like file333. Anyone have ideas on how to successfully recover data?
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Have you tried http://www.recovermyfiles.com/ ?
I had great results using it to recover some of my files... even when others failed.
I had great results using it to recover some of my files... even when others failed.
I went through a Windows xp install midway. So I've taken up 628mb out of 70gb. I am running GDB again now. I have actually checked out recover my files, but the files that it showed were different from what I originally had. I will let you know what happens in a few hours.
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Search is your friend. Search the General software and Networking/security forums.....but here:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1462143
Data recovery gets asked pretty routinely. This is one of many threads..just the most recent....but in my experience, Zero Assumption Recovery has worked every time I needed it.
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1462143
Data recovery gets asked pretty routinely. This is one of many threads..just the most recent....but in my experience, Zero Assumption Recovery has worked every time I needed it.
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I got gdb to work. Is anyone here an expert at using gdb? I want to recover the data, but it is asking me to copy it somewhere. I am afraid that if I copy it back onto the same partition, it may try to overwrite some data, meaning that it wont have enough space. I had nearly a full drive. This is a laptop, so I can't really connect another hard drive to it. I tried copying that info through my networks to my desktop, but it won't allow it.
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Avira has a freeware tool to scan for old files. I've tried it before and it shows what % of the file is left so you know if it's even worth grabbing.
BTW, you have pulled the drive and are not working from it from the OS that is installed on it right? If so, every time you boot it up your wiping out even more of your deleted data.
BTW, you have pulled the drive and are not working from it from the OS that is installed on it right? If so, every time you boot it up your wiping out even more of your deleted data.