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Data lost on a laptop

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IronOxide

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Today at work, my manager was looking at a sd card for me and tried to format it. He downloaded a program that works with media cards and he tried to format the card with that. It said it was successful, but we couldn't use the card. Then when he rebooted, the laptop wouldn't boot at all. After throwing in the xp cd we looked at the partitions and it said that he only had one at 250 mb formated in fat file system (not fat32, but fat). I'm assuming that the program formatted his hard drive instead of the sd card. Is there any freeware out there that can recover files from dos? If anyone has any ideas that would be great!! Thanks!

Rusty
 
well, i would like to say thing about it: when the formats were being done, was it a quick format or the long actual format? if it was a quick format then there's a chance you could get some of that stuff back and there are programs that will allow it to happen in windows = dos you'll have to type or write a batch. But, if it was a full normal format, then its a possibility all the info may have been lost. Do you have anything like partition magic? it has better tools that allows you to observe info compared to an installation disk.
 
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