Help recovering formatted data

[Bruck]

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.

 

[JBT]

Got a couple hundred/thousand dollars?

 

[Bruck]

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]

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]

Try GetBackData ..

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

 

[Zepper]

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.

 

[Fern]

Here's a link to Get Data Back. Might wanna check it out.
Link

 

[Sureshot324]

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.

 

[memories2002]

ontrack easy recovery
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get data back [my choice]

 

[Bruck]

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