Hard Drive Recovery,what's best solution? 1

[Wolfbarron]

Hi,

I've hit a major problem. I needed my C drive formatting a few weeks ago and a friend offerred to help out. However he accidentally formatted the D drive instead. And you've guessed it I hadn't backed it up. The process was stopped after a miniute or two and several hours ensued of attempting to recover the data. A lot has been recovered but crucially several word documents have been scrambled and lost. I'm desperate to get these back. I'm a writer and there's several months work there.

As I say the format was a 'quick format' and the recovery packages we used were freebies from the net.

Does any one know the best thng to do here?? I'm prepared to pay a company or individual providing the data can be recovered or perhaps purchase a good software package if it will work. Some company's are offering 'no recovery no fee policy', is it possible for them to recover all or most of the data??

Any recommendations and thanks for any help??



Regards,

Paul

 

[vacunita]

I would recommend one try with a trial version of Getdataback from Runtime.org, see if it can pick out the files you need. It won't let you recover them, but it will let you see them, and make sure they are readable. If you find that it can recover you can then decide to purchase the full version and go ahead with the recovery.

Alternatively going to a Professional service assures you that if it can be recovered it most probably will be by them, and if it can't well then you at least didn't spend anything if they live up to their "No Recovery no Fee" assurance..

Of course if ti can be recovered, be prepared to pay some serious cash for the recovery.


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[goombawaho]

Think about Gillware.com I know they do good work as my company uses them for data recovery needs. Now, they specialize in recovering data from damaged (non-functional) hard drives, but they may have the software that law enforcement agencies have to restore "erased" data off hard drives.

And tell you're friend "thanks a lot".

 

[Wolfbarron]

Hi,

Thanks for your advice on this. I'll try these recommendations and keep the advice coming if you would.


As for my friend, don't worry, I've already expressed my eternal gratittude in bucket loads.


Regards,

paul

 

[Wolfbarron]

Hi,

Just to let you know its sorted. Took a lot of work but got there in the end. I used recover my files to see what sector the word documents were in and put recovery into deep sector scan. Unbelievable though, it still took 17 hours. I didn't manage to retrieve everything but what I did was enough to piece together the paper I wanted.

So thanks a mill for the help along the way.

Now I will burn the **** lot to disc.

What a headache.

Take it easy,

Paul

 

[wahnula]

Wolfbarron

Thanks for the update, many folks don't take the time to update their posts. It is always valuable to know what did or did not work. A star to you for your headache!

Tony

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