accidently formatted my hard drive

[Jasonc]

help help help, please

I have Windows XP and I have just formatted my second drive by accident!!!

I need to get my files back.

what program is out there that I can use to get them back or does XP have
such a program that I do not yet know of that is already on the system?


thanks in advance

Jason

 

[DL]

I seem to recall a warning msg given when Formating,
something along the lines of 'Warning all data will be lost'
Having said that your only option would be to give the HD to a data recovery
specialist on 'no recovery no fee basis'
David

 

[Willit]

Depends look at this, read the testimonials at the bottom:


http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm

 

[Jasonc]

yes is did say something like that!!!

i plugged in a friends hard drive to format it and forgot to UNPLUG (MY)
other hard drive before doing a format on his drive, as it said do you wish
to format the MAXTOR DRIVE i said yes cos it was this type of drive......
guess what..... so is my other hard drive!!! DOH

as for it depends... i have not done anything to the drive as yet. still
trying to get stuff off it with some program i got and bought called
RESTORER 2000 PRO, well it does not seem to be doing what i thought it
would, unformat. this is what i really need an unformat program.

any ideas where i get one from.

Jason

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

See http://www.ontrack.com/datarecovery/

It ain't cheap, but it's good.

 

[Jim Macklin]

Do a Google for "unformat" , "format recovery" and "disk
recovery" and you should get some answers or directions.

Don't use the disk in any way until you run a recovery
program.


| yes is did say something like that!!!
|
| i plugged in a friends hard drive to format it and forgot
to UNPLUG (MY)
| other hard drive before doing a format on his drive, as it
said do you wish
| to format the MAXTOR DRIVE i said yes cos it was this type
of drive......
| guess what..... so is my other hard drive!!! DOH
|
| as for it depends... i have not done anything to the drive
as yet. still
| trying to get stuff off it with some program i got and
bought called
| RESTORER 2000 PRO, well it does not seem to be doing what
i thought it
| would, unformat. this is what i really need an unformat
program.
|
| any ideas where i get one from.
|
| Jason
|
|
| | > help help help, please
| >
| > I have Windows XP and I have just formatted my second
drive by accident!!!
| >
| > I need to get my files back.
| >
| > what program is out there that I can use to get them
back or does XP have
| > such a program that I do not yet know of that is already
on the system?
| >
| >
| > thanks in advance
| >
| > Jason
| >
| >
|
|

 

[Plato]

I need to get my files back.

Luckily, a format doesn't erase any data.

 

[Malke]

Luckily, a format doesn't erase any data.

Lanwench suggested Ontrack's Easy Recovery Pro, which I use and it has
worked well for me. The other alternative is to contact Drive Savers
(www.drivesavers.com), a professional data recovery firm highly
regarded in the tech industry. They are not inexpensive, and only you
can decide how much your data is worth spending.

Malke

 

[davetest]

Lanwench suggested Ontrack's Easy Recovery Pro, which I use and it has
worked well for me. The other alternative is to contact Drive Savers
(www.drivesavers.com), a professional data recovery firm highly
regarded in the tech industry. They are not inexpensive, and only you
can decide how much your data is worth spending.

Malke

partition magic also has partition recovery, there may be others.
For example:
http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm

Dave