Unformat

[Guest]

hi all, i have a very big problem and urgent need to solve it. By mistake,
while doing my windows 2000 setup i selected a wrong drive. it asked format,
without noticing it i choose yes. that drive has very valuable and huge data
about my previous projects and professional related. i have to recover that.
i heared very long back that there are some "unformat" softwares which can
solve my problem. which one is best? i don't want to loose even a single bit
of the data. i lost data about 5 GB, on that partition. plz help me.

 

[DL]

Hugely valuable? but no backups? a contradiction
do something silly/hw failure/PC stolen/damaged = no business

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

hi all, i have a very big problem and urgent need to solve it. By mistake,
while doing my windows 2000 setup i selected a wrong drive. it asked format,
without noticing it i choose yes. that drive has very valuable and huge data
about my previous projects and professional related. i have to recover that.
i heared very long back that there are some "unformat" softwares which can
solve my problem. which one is best? i don't want to loose even a single bit
of the data. i lost data about 5 GB, on that partition. plz help me.

You could try one of these:
http://www.restorer2000.com/r2k.htm
http://www.hddrecovery.com.au
http://bootmaster.filerecovery.biz
http://www.runtime.org/ (GetDataBack)
http://www.runtime.org/ (has a trial version)
http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/filerecoverysecdownload.html
www.acronis.com (RecoveryExpert)

Seeing that a 2.5" hard disk in an external USB enclosure
makes a low cost but highly effective backup medium, it
is hard to see why you chose not to back up your large
amount of "very valuable" (your words) data.

 

[paulmd]

hi all, i have a very big problem and urgent need to solve it. By mistake,
while doing my windows 2000 setup i selected a wrong drive. it asked format,
without noticing it i choose yes. that drive has very valuable and huge data
about my previous projects and professional related. i have to recover that.
i heared very long back that there are some "unformat" softwares which can
solve my problem. which one is best? i don't want to loose even a single bit
of the data. i lost data about 5 GB, on that partition. plz help me.

I's suggest going straight to a data recovery professional. THis is not
something you want to potentially make WORSE.