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After formating a hdd

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pnwmtbiker97

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Does anyone know of any successful attempts recovering data after formating a hdd?
"software" used if you would.


Thanks!
MTbiker
 
You might try a program called Lost and Found. I use version 1.06. I'm not sure if it retrieves files after the disk has been formatted but I think it does. When my master boot record was destroyed, it appeared that I lost everything on my drive and I was not able to access it any more from Windows98. Lost and Found installed from the Dos mode, saved about 85 to 90 percent of the files and programs on that drive.
 
well, if u did a quick format...then u can recover it...a full format...forget it...(full puts every single space in ur hdd to "0"....while quick just points each location in the drive to "0"...meaning one bit controls a whole lotta megs/gigs....if that bit is "0"..it tells the OS that everything from here and on can be written over....the data's there, just that ur OS won't recognize it...

quick format, u can recover files using partition magic 8.....but not all files.... and yeah..welcome to anantech forums...blah...ATOT pwns me...
 
...thx hackmole & & DanTMWTMP for all your help. My brother-in-law wanted a lean-clean install of WinXP on his compaq and he didn't "dbl chk" his CDR's for proper writing and something went wrong...it was totally unreadable. I chk'd the CDR's on both my computers and neither CD-ROM could see the CDR's. That's the reason I was thinking there has got to be a way to recover his hdd. And wada ya know..............

I was online though and found this great utility called "CD Rollover and the program I think converts file extensions back to a readible
format then you can extract it back onto the local. It was cool!!! It read 100% of the data...we extracted to his local hdd and he's back in business.

Peace,
 
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