Data Recovery Program - What's the best program?

[batmang]

Hi all,

I work at a hospital and we had an accident. We had a machine get re-imaged that had a very important database that kept information for the cath lab.

We are trying to find some sort of software that can recover the database eventhough the hard drive has been re-imaged.

The database was thought to be on the network, but it wasnt. And now we need to recover the database ASAP.

Does Symantec make some sort of data recovery program? Do you guys know of any free data recovery programs? Whats the best one, free or not, we need some asap.

Thanks.

 

[EagleKeeper]

If the disk was re-imaged, all will probably be lost. Most re-image packages will wipe out the FAT tables.

Best bet is to try and contact one of the professional services, explain what was done, how it was done and let them tell you what the situation.


Also, consider it a lesson learned (the hard expensive way)

 

[batmang]

yeah.

my co-worker had a request to replace a win98 machine with a newer machine with win2k.
i had cleared up my que and asked him if he had anything open he needed help with.
so i took the job, i built the win2k machine and just replaced it. i didnt bother looking for anything important
on the old machine, cause all my co-worker told me was that i needed certain apps. so i installed those apps, and
replaced the machine.

we keep machines that we replace for 2 weeks before wiping them out. 3 weeks went by and the old machine was just
redeployed with a fresh image of win2k. and then we get a call saying the database was on the old machnie.

its not really our fault entirely, they should keep their database on a server, but it was our fault for not inspecting the machine
entirely.

5 years of data was on the old machine.... all gone now!

 

[statik213]

Best people I know are OnTrack will cost you though....

I had someone I know who lost his entire HDD, he sent it in and they recoevered everything.....

Not sure if they can recover deleted stuff...
As long as you haven't done a low level format and not rewritten a lot of data i'd say your chances are decent.

Remember, that when you delete partitions/files it just removes references to them, so the data can most of the time be recovered without any hitch as long as that part of the drive hasn't been written to....

I've recovered entire partitions numerous times, but if this DB is as important as you say get the pros to do this....

G'luck