Format recovery software

[Traxan]

Hi all. I am looking for recommendations for software that helps you recover data from a formatted drive. Freeware is preferable but if I have to pay, so be it. TIA.

 

[boran]

R-Studio has helped me in the past, it is paying software however.

 

[Jesusthewererabbit]

Recuva
http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Our IT guys accidentally formatted my boss's laptop a few months ago, and I used Recuva to get back everything. Even stuff I didn't want to see.

 

[Tyathalae]

Recuva is the best free one you can get, but there is something priced called Ontrack and I think it is the best.

 

[Modelworks]

If you did a full format nothing will get it back. Nobody has ever recovered data once it was erased.
If you did a quick format then the data is still there.
One easy way to tell the difference is full format takes a long time, a 1TB drive can take an hour. Quick formats take minutes.

 

[strep3241]

There is also a program called File Scavenger. It is free to scan with but costs $50 to recover the files. I just used this program so I know it works.

 

[ATF678]

I've used Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery and have been successful as long as there is no disk damage. In fact I just used it as recently as last week. It can do several different scans including sector scanning which is the most thorough but takes a long time.

 

[badnewcastle]

Can you get data back if the drive was cleaned, quick formatted, and since had other files loaded on it?

 

[lxskllr]

Can you get data back if the drive was cleaned, quick formatted, and since had other files loaded on it?

What do you mean by "cleaned"?

 

[badnewcastle]

In diskpart utility, I typed "clean" - "create partition primary" - format NTFS (it was quick though) didn't realize any of it was the wrong disk until it was done and since then my brother copied files onto the disk.

 

[lxskllr]

Not sure tbh. I /think/ all your data will still be there with the caveat that some may have gotten overwritten with the new data.