File Recovery

[Dave]

I installed Windows XP Home over my Windows ME (new
installation -not upgrade). I don't know how to recover
any of my old files and programs. Have I lost them? All
of my efforts have been unsuccessful.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Dave if you did a Clean Installation instead of a upgrade, it will
probably cost $ to get them back.
It is important not to do anything with the computer until a decision
is made.
Every boot and even every keystroke potentially permanently destroys
the data.

http://www.execsoft.com/undelete/undelete.asp
http://www.undelete.com/coverpage.asp
http://www.lc-tech.com/index.asp
http://pjwalczak.com/scaven/index.php
http://www.ontrack.com/
http://www.r-tt.com
http://www.drivesavers.com/
http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/
http://www.naltech.com/ (CD Data Rescue)
http://www.cddataguys.com/BadCopyPro.htm (CD-ROM's, CD-R's, CD-RW's,
and DVD's)

 

[Harry Ohrn]

It will be very difficult to recover much of anything useful off the system.
If you have a second computer then you might be able to do some recovery by
connecting the Hard Drive as slave to a second system and using a decent
recovery tool that can read NTFS as I assume you converted the file format
to NTFS during the clean install. Or if you have a second Hard Drive you
could remove the drive in question, attach the second drive a s Master and
install XP to it then connect the drive with lost data as slave. You see you
really need a second drive so you can recover lost data to. You can't
recover the data to the same drive it was lost on. Doing so will further
overwrite other files.

I've had some success with apps like Lost n Found from www.symantec.com or
Windows based programs like iRecover http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/

 

[David]

I installed Windows XP Home over my Windows ME (new
installation -not upgrade). I don't know how to recover
any of my old files and programs. Have I lost them? All
of my efforts have been unsuccessful.

Re-install the apps and re-create the files. Perhaps you should have
learned what you were attempting to do beforing doing it.

A Clean install wipes the system. An Upgrade would have kept your old
Programs and files.

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David

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