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Is there a FREE Data Recovery Program?

goobernoodles

goobernoodles

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Wow. I am a complete DOLT.

I had this 20gig that I had a bunch of crap on... decided to move everything over from the 20 gig to my 80gig. OK... once everything was off, I decided to reformat, however something was using the drive in windows... So the genius that I am, I opened up a dos command prompt, typed in format f: and it worked.

I forgot, however that dos has a slightly different drive letter assignments. Yeah. OOPS.

I just deleted 15 gigs of music, countless original videos... a ton of more stuff I can't even begin to remember...

Yeah... I figure its all gone, but might as well ask. Is there anything I can do short of spending money to to data recovery?
 
getdataback

i know there are links/threads somewhere about this sw and other file recovery programs somewhere here.
 
Originally posted by: goobernoodles
Wow. I am a complete DOLT.

I had this 20gig that I had a bunch of crap on... decided to move everything over from the 20 gig to my 80gig. OK... once everything was off, I decided to reformat, however something was using the drive in windows... So the genius that I am, I opened up a dos command prompt, typed in format f: and it worked.

I forgot, however that dos has a slightly different drive letter assignments. Yeah. OOPS.

I just deleted 15 gigs of music, countless original videos... a ton of more stuff I can't even begin to remember...

Yeah... I figure its all gone, but might as well ask. Is there anything I can do short of spending money to to data recovery?
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15 gigs, BAH
i lost 90 b/c of a cyclic redundancy error in the partition table
 
no binary data is lost in a format, only the tables that windows uses to find tthings are made SLIGHTLY unreadable
running system restore was not a good idea
after an unwanted format, you should do nothing but recover
there are a thousand things you could do to get the stuff back

the first thing to try is a little friendly app - handy recovery (freeware triail)
http://www.handyrecovery.com/
then theres Ranish Partition Manager
Or This
getdataback as mentioned is excellent

Norton Ghost the drive to another (to good master/from bad slave) will recreate its own FAT or partition tables on the new drive

Many bootable recovery CD ISO's have file transfer utilities like servant salamander
Hirens Boot CD
Avast Bart CD
Winternals ERD



 
Hmmm... I downloaded the first one... and I seem to have found most of the stuff, however is there any free software that would actually let me get all of it back? It only allows me 1 file a day. I'm not sure I'll live long enough... not to mention my computer.
 
Originally posted by: ShadowBlade
Originally posted by: goobernoodles
Wow. I am a complete DOLT.

I had this 20gig that I had a bunch of crap on... decided to move everything over from the 20 gig to my 80gig. OK... once everything was off, I decided to reformat, however something was using the drive in windows... So the genius that I am, I opened up a dos command prompt, typed in format f: and it worked.

I forgot, however that dos has a slightly different drive letter assignments. Yeah. OOPS.

I just deleted 15 gigs of music, countless original videos... a ton of more stuff I can't even begin to remember...

Yeah... I figure its all gone, but might as well ask. Is there anything I can do short of spending money to to data recovery?
Click to expand...

15 gigs, BAH
i lost 90 b/c of a cyclic redundancy error in the partition table
Click to expand...

Nope its gone!!! a leson learned....
I had that happen once.....
I could have spent several hundred dollars a few years ago to get my data back but there was no guarantee and they wanted there money first..lol
 
Nope. I think it's pay only. I looked forever and found nothing for free. If you cracked the program it would be a very free, very illegal action.

EDIT: I tried contacting some places to see how much for professional recovery and they wanted $500 just to look at my HD, not worth it imo.
 
Handy Recovery 1.0

If you look closely, you can see the little box with the guy with the moustache and the small button saying "Freeware". It points to Handy Recovery 1.0, freeware version that doesn't have any limitations. Should help you recover the 20GB of data 🙂
 
Originally posted by: goobernoodles
Is that program free? I can see all my files using Handy Recovery 2.0, but I can only recover 1 a day.
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Here are a few options and a couple of them are free. UBCD4Win and Insert Rescue Disks also have data recovery software on them. If you encounter problems with the free data recovery software then try TestDisk, R-Studio, GetDataBack, Ontrack, or Quetek.
Browse through the link in my signature for more information.

[*]Data Recovery Programs

[*]Rescue Disks

[*]Hard Drive Related Products

Originally posted by: Bozo Galora
...
the first thing to try is a little friendly app - handy recovery (freeware triail)
http://www.handyrecovery.com/
then theres Ranish Partition Manager
...
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Thank you for the suggestions. I placed these two on the list.


Originally posted by: ShadowBlade
15 gigs, BAH
i lost 90 b/c of a cyclic redundancy error in the partition table
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Partition Table Doctor works very well in such situations.
 
everything is free... just use BitTorrent 😉

GetDataBack is a very good program, i used it to restore 60gb that i corrupted from overclocking.
 
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