Possible to "unformat" a hard disk?

[Mister Beefhead]

Ok, is there any way to recover data from a hard drive partition that has been formatted and has not been touched in any other way whatsoever since? It was and is formatted as FAT32. It is a partition that does not have my OS on it, so I am still able to use the computer and hopefully apply some sort of recovery program from the other partition. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, as you can imagine.

 

[rw120555]

The Norton Utilities have an unformat command that can be run from DOS. Get the program, run it on another machine (obviously), and create a rescue disk.

This may not work and there may be other freebie solutions, but you probably want to have something like Norton around anyway.

 

[Mister Beefhead]

Hey thanks! I'll look into that. I would prefer a freeware solution, but hey, what can you do. I did make some changes to the above post, I realised that I didn't give all the information.

 

[Mister Beefhead]

It doesn't look like the "undelete" utility on Norton Utilites is going to work for me - It seems to only recover a small amount of text files. Does anyone else have any ideas??!??! Thanks in advance.

 

[rw120555]

Did you use "undelete" or "unformat"? They are separate utilities, I believe.