Can someone tell me if I am screwed?

[youppi]

bascially, i had two partitions on two 500gb drives, c was 100 gb, d was 900gb. i installed a new bios, something screwed up, i reinstalled windows not knowing that it reset my partitions to 500gb and 500gb c and d with no files present from before.

I tried one data recovery program that actually found the pics and docs that I was looking for but they come up jumbled, except the super tiny ones from like an internet cache. whats interesting is the jpeg files i want in the thumbnail previews initially came up clean and fine, and the size of the file seems correct at a few megabytes, but then when it rendered the preview more, it jumbled up. this happened only on all my personal photos. does anyone think I can get this pic and doc files I need off the drive? or is that it? thanks

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

its gonna be pretty tough. I used R-Studio to recover my files after i deleted a partition by accident. It was the only one that worked for me.

 

[youppi]

what about the files that i recovered that for about 1-2sec show the proper image with nothing wrong in the thumbnail but after that short 2 sec, it like renders again in the thumbnail producing half a garbled pic. anyway to get something from that file?

 

[StinkyPinky]

It amazes me that people never back up their stuff. I have a 640gb external just for that purpose.

It probably is possible to recover the files as long as you don't write lots of data to the drive in the meantime. But it will cost you, as you probably need a recovery program to do so. I doubt any free ones will work.

 

[RebateMonger]

1) You defiinitely don't want to be doing anything that might write to those two hard drives. Attach them to another system and install data recovery software on THAT system.

2) Try the demo versions of various data recovery software. I've used GetDataBack and DTI's products. I've heard good things about R-Studio, but have never tried it.

3) If you need to do anything that makes changes to the hard drives, make virtual drive clones of those drives and do your testing on the clones. A couple of Data Recovery software makers offer free drive cloning software for recovery purposes.