Help recovering formatted data

Bruck

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long story short mom restored windows xp back onto her laptop after formatting the drive. I am using R-studio that i own and have not had very good luck, can't seem to find the documents and settings folders from before the format/reinstall. the user name folders dont exist that i am looking for, is there an alternate method or software any can suggest.

Thanks.
 

Bruck

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no i dont and its like 100 pics only i dont really care, its like less than 1 year of photos and he has copies of alot of them.
 

JBT

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I am not sure what you can really do after a format. I do know there are a few programs that can find some of the data but ussually not all of it. But if they are REALLY important you can always send the drive off to a data recovery center for under $1000 or so.
 

Abhi

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Try GetBackData ..

If it can see the files in the demo version, the full version will recover it...
 

Zepper

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that's funny, R-Studio should work. If not, go to http://www.Komando.com and search on data or file recovery. She has some info on some of the recovery software and some is specifically for recovering image files.
.bh.
 

Sureshot324

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I've been in the same situation as you and GetDataBack got quite a lot of my stuff back, but some of it was corrupted, so the demo version might be a bit misleading in telling you what you could save with the full version.
 

Bruck

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R-studio got back 100% of the missing files but only 75% were uncorrupted. not bad.