Oops...BIG OOPS - Data recovery question

[DataFly]

I just reformatted all three of my drive partitions including my backup, drive e:. Is there any way to recover data stored there? I have not intentionally written one byte of data to the drive since.

Thanks VERY MUCH in advance.

 

[MadRat]

I think the electron microscopes run $1500 for each recovery.

 

[DataFly]

Crap...that's what I thought. Oh well...nothing irreplacable was lost.

 

[randypj]

I believe you can download Lost and Found from Powerquest for free, and it will tell you what it can recover, before you buy it. I've heard nothing but good things about it.
--Randy

 

[randypj]

More added.....for your viewing pleasure, from PQ's site:



<< Our patent-pending technology will even recover data if the partition has been reformatted or if the FAT tables have been destroyed! In fact, as long as your disk is still spinning, Lost &amp; Found can locate and recover almost any file, anywhere on your disk. >>



Lost And Found

I'd be interested in knowing your results if you try this.
--Randy

 

[goldboyd]

another recommendation for lost and found, used it a few times to much success. the only problem might be is that the program is a one use only thing, so you might need 3 copies for all 3 partitions

 

[DataFly]

Well, I'm only looking to restore the data from my e drive since I did mean to format the other two.

But what do you mean it's a one-use only thing? I can't use it again if I screw up in the future?

 

[goldboyd]

the software comes on a floppy, i think or maybe just the license comes on a floppy or something, and it only works once. you might be able to copy the disk though, i've never tried

 

[andrey]

I've used PQ Lost and Found couple times before and it recovered no more than 5% of all the data after reformating partition. Just to let you know from my personal experience.

 

[lazyboy]

Yeah it doesn't always work but worth a try.

 

[Roguetech]

I did the same thing . Ontrack EasyRecovery (5.0 is the latest, though I haven't tried 5.0). It's VERY slow. It analyses all the clusters, which took maybe 6 hours for my 8GB drive. Then licensed version can save that data to another drive for later use. The recovery itself takes about an hour bper 100MB, depending on how easily recovered it is (I've had it get stuck on files, and it just sits there doing whatever it does for hours on end). I haven't recovered the entire drive, since it's full, and it's not going anywhere, so it's just a big CD for me, but on what I've tried, it's gotten about 50%. The demo version only allows recovery of individual files, not directories or multiple files. Comes on a bootable diskette (Dr. DOS or one of those). There's a different version for each type of FAT. Note my e-mail address if you have trouble finding it .