Hi guys Ive got a hard drive problem....

[DC]

Stupidly I upgraded a user to Win XP on friday and even more stupidly
assumed they were storing their files on the remote IMAP mail server
(Most users are), they only had their inbox on the server and were
storing their mail folders on the local disk, which I have formatted.

Do you know of any tools which will enable me to recover their Outlook
Express data from the Hard drive? The old os was NT4 sp 6 (IE ntfs v1)
the new OS is Win XP sp 1 (NTFS v2)

Thanks in advance,
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DC

"You can not reason a man out of a position he did not reach through reason"

"Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice."

"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is
never sure." Segal's Law

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Since you reformatted the hard drive, you did not really perform
an "upgrade", but a "clean install" of Windows XP. All information
on that drive is now gone and unrecoverable.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| Stupidly I upgraded a user to Win XP on friday and even more stupidly
| assumed they were storing their files on the remote IMAP mail server
| (Most users are), they only had their inbox on the server and were
| storing their mail folders on the local disk, which I have formatted.
|
| Do you know of any tools which will enable me to recover their Outlook
| Express data from the Hard drive? The old os was NT4 sp 6 (IE ntfs v1)
| the new OS is Win XP sp 1 (NTFS v2)
|
| Thanks in advance,
| --
| _______________________________________________
|
| DC
|
| "You can not reason a man out of a position he did not reach through reason"
|
| "Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice."
|
| "A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is
| never sure." Segal's Law
|

 

[myth-unit]

geez I wouldn't agree with that...
DC, just hit tucows.com, download.com or your other
favourite software listing & look for data recovery.
Theres rarely any freeware products available tho, and the
demo/shareware products are usually so limited as to be
useless, so you might need to consider if the value of the
data lost is >= cost of the data recovery software.
There's a reason that most businesses will run 'shredding'
programs over harddisks before disposing of them, and
that's because simply formatting hardly makes data "gone
and unrecoverable". As long as the data you are after was
not on a part of the drive overwritten by the new install
it should be recoverable.
cheers,
myth-unit

 

[Jody Wilkes]

geez I wouldn't agree with that...
DC, just hit tucows.com, download.com or your other
favourite software listing & look for data recovery.
Theres rarely any freeware products available tho, and the
demo/shareware products are usually so limited as to be
useless, so you might need to consider if the value of the
data lost is >= cost of the data recovery software.
There's a reason that most businesses will run 'shredding'
programs over harddisks before disposing of them, and
that's because simply formatting hardly makes data "gone
and unrecoverable". As long as the data you are after was
not on a part of the drive overwritten by the new install
it should be recoverable.
cheers,
myth-unit

That is correct. The data that was not overwritten is still intact and
recoverable. Use a software like GetDataBack to scan the drive and see
what data you can still recover. Just dont run the software on the
drive you want to recover from. Remove the drive and make it a slave
in another computer. Then install the software on that C drive and let
it scan. You can find GetDataBack at www.runtime.org. If you have any
questions, let me know.

Jody Wilkes
Runtime Software
http://www.runtime.org