Dick Quickwood Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 my hard drive was re-formatted. i am looking for data recovery programs that can deal with this kind of thing. el mammero, i understand you once had a similair situation with your macintosh ? here is a link to information about a data recovery demo i am now downloading: http://www.data-recovery-software.net/Data..._Download.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty_habiT Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 Hey, just don't create any new files on your disk... all deleting stuff does is marks the beginning of the sector as empty, even though the information is still there.... which is way those military grade file wiping programs write and rewrite over the sectors to prevent data recovery.... as long as you don't "write" anything onto the sectors you should have a good chance of recovering the data. This is all the help I could possibly offer as I'm not so knowledgable on this subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_El Mamerro Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 Ooof, it's one thing to accidentally delete stuff, which is easily recoverable, but I believe that reformatting a hard drive is pretty serious stuff. I'm unsure if it's even possible to recover, and if it is, it'll probably take professional help. I'm not particularly sure about what reformatting physically does to data, but I'm sure it's substantially different from deleting. My problem had been my entire directory structure going to shit. The data was intact, which is why it was relatively easy to recover. And even then, I had to send it out for recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAustin Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 Originally posted by El Mamerro I believe that reformatting a hard drive is pretty serious stuff. I'm unsure if it's even possible to recover, and if it is, it'll probably take professional help. Not to be discouraging or anything, but this is exactly the same thing I was thinking. good luck man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adderall Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 its possible.. get Easy Recovery Pro by OnTrack.. the NSA can recover data after it has been overwritten up to 32 (or was it 24?) times - the only way to really format your hard drive is to overwrite the entire drive with 1's and 0's.. 10 passes is enough for most people but the extra wary should aim for like 40 some of your files will not be recovered due to limitations in the software, if anything was really vital though lots of companies have data recovery services Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Quickwood Posted March 8, 2004 Author Share Posted March 8, 2004 the only thing missing now is 1.5 gigs of music files, that's the only thing that needs recovering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.