Data recovery on a hard disk

[Hyperblaze]

A friend of mine reformatted his hard disk forgetting to backup a few essential files...

after freaking out, he tried a recovery program (I forget the name of it). He was able to recover
one of the essential files, but unfortunately, inside the file you could only see garbage, such as you
would see in a binary file (his file was text/ascii).

Would you guys happen to know of any good recovery tools?

Either to recover the file itself to readable format or any data recovery program that you might know about?

Thanks for any assistance.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

you might try one of the technical forums here.

 

[iamwiz82]

i have used DOS Uneraser with great success

 

[Sketcher]

Depends on how important that data is to your friend....

But, I use Ontrack for our Corporate Data recovery - everything from PDA to SCSI RAID recovery, and then some. IT costs though.

I also have a few of the programs available through their site. Good stuff, but if your data is written over or sectors are reassigned (as in FDISK\Delete-Recreate Partition etc...) you'll have to resort to professional data services to recover it and make it usable data.

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
i have used DOS Uneraser with great success

DOS Uneraser's a great utility!

 

[Spamela]

This is the best one there is.

 

[camara120]

is the R-studio program better than Ontrack's programs?