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Is it possible to recover data from a Hard Drive that was formatted (quick)
accidently and had a new OS installed on it?
How would this be done?
What software would be required?
Many thanks,
CaptainCanuck
PS
Ys I know many of you will say, "How can someone accidently format a hard
drive?"
To that I would respond, "The 'someone' was hired because they are a
brother-in-law, which means they are dumber than grass!"
I need to recover something, anything from the drive or I'm gonna fire the
brother-in-law AND the wife!
 
If nothing had been instlled - Yes. Installation of the OS complicates the
matter. An "undelete" utility may help do Google.
 
CaptainCanuck said:
Is it possible to recover data from a Hard Drive that was formatted
(quick)
accidently and had a new OS installed on it?
How would this be done?
What software would be required?
Many thanks,
CaptainCanuck
PS
Ys I know many of you will say, "How can someone accidently format a hard
drive?"
To that I would respond, "The 'someone' was hired because they are a
brother-in-law, which means they are dumber than grass!"
I need to recover something, anything from the drive or I'm gonna fire the
brother-in-law AND the wife!
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Stop using the computer. Take the hard drive out, put it in another
computer and image it to an external drive so you have a copy, then try data
recovery. Google for data recovery tools. Also if the data is extremely
valuable you could try one of the data recovery services, but know they cost
is high.

www.driversavers.com
www.ontrack.com
http://services.seagate.com/
 
Thanks guys.

Follow-up:
This system has IDE not SATA drives, will I be able to 'image the drive' via
an external USB case/drive? Or will I have to hook up the drive to image to
via IDE? Or is that dependent on the software I use to image the drive?

Do you have recommendations for 'undelete' or 'recovery' utilities that are
better than others?

TIA!
 
CaptainCanuck said:
Thanks guys.

Follow-up:
This system has IDE not SATA drives, will I be able to 'image the drive' via
an external USB case/drive? Or will I have to hook up the drive to image to
via IDE? Or is that dependent on the software I use to image the drive?

Do you have recommendations for 'undelete' or 'recovery' utilities that are
better than others?
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You don't need to move the drive. Boot with a bootable imaging cd such
as the one you make with Acronis True Image. Obviously, you need a
second computer and True Image installed on that machine in order to
create the bootable cd. Attach an external usb/firewire hard drive to
the computer with the drive you wish to image. Boot with TI, image the
target drive, save the image onto the external hard drive.

Now run your data recovery software on the target drive. I use Easy
Recovery Pro but it is expensive. Many people have recommended R-Studio.

Ontrack's EasyRecovery - http://www.ontrack.com/software/
R-Studio - http://www.r-tt.com/

As you can see, you need extra computers, equipment, software, and skill
to do data recovery. Only you know your resources and abilities. You can
make the decision whether to take the machine to a local professional
who does data recovery. This will not be a BigStoreUSA type of place.

If the data is crucial, as Rock said you may want to send the drive to a
professional data recovery company like Drive Savers (my preference) or
Seagate Data Recovery. General prices run from $500USD on up. Drive
Savers recovered all the data on a failed laptop drive for one of my
clients and it cost $2,700. He thought it was worth the money; only you
know what your data is worth. I understand that some insurance companies
are now covering data recovery charges under "Loss of Intellectual
Property" or "Electronic Property" (or the like) so check with yours.

Drive Savers - http://www.drivesavers.com
Seagate Data Recovery Services - https://www.seagatedatarecovery.com/
..

Malke
 
Is it possible to recoverdatafrom a Hard Drive that was formatted (quick)
accidently and had a new OS installed on it?
How would this be done?
Whatsoftwarewould be required?
Many thanks,
CaptainCanuck
PS
Ys I know many of you will say, "How can someone accidently format a hard
drive?"
To that I would respond, "The 'someone' was hired because they are a
brother-in-law, which means they are dumber than grass!"
I need to recover something, anything from the drive or I'm gonna fire the
brother-in-law AND the wife!
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Yes recovery of data is possible from a formated hard drive. Try
Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS data recovery software. Although its not
free but free demo version is available which will show you the
recovered data. Download the demo from : http://www.stellarinfo.com/partition-recovery.htm.
If the files has been over-written or corrupted then no data recovery
software can recover those data.
 
Thanks very much for the extra details MALKE! Very much appreciated!
Will let you know how this goes....
 
CaptainCanuck said:
Thanks very much for the extra details MALKE! Very much appreciated!
Will let you know how this goes....
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You're welcome. Please do post back if you need any more help. BTW, you
might want to just send the drive to Drive Savers and bill your
brother-in-law. Or just torture him by telling him how much it will cost
to retrieve the data. ;-)

Malke
 
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