Oops

[Bob Johnson]

Oops...I accidentally formated over a partition of backup data on my hdd with the windows installer. I didn't completly install windows over the partion that I formatted though. Is there any way to recover that data, short of sending the hard drive to a professional data restoration lab?

 

[lifeinchains]

There are programs available for download that do exactly that. I had to use one a couple months ago to recover a wrongly formatted drive. Only problem is that most of them either wont let you recover the data or let you recover only a small portion of the data until you purchase the full product.

Here's a freeware proggie, looks like it may work:
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

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