Reformatted harddrive FAT rebuilding

[4ft3rl1f3]

I have a harddrive that has been reformatted, but I need to extract some files that were on the previous format. What tools are available for me to rebuild the FAT from the old filesystem? I know that by reformatting the drive, a new FAT has been created, but the old files are still on the drive (it hasn't been zero'd out). I just want to get rid of the new FAT and rebuild it by searching the drive for files in the old filesystem.

BTW: Not sure if the old was FAT16,FAT32,or NTFS.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[wolluf]

You need a data recovery tool - Google will turn up lots. Most cost - getdataback is pretty good. Free one here:-

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

but it may not work.

 

[zbnet]

You could try TestDisk (Google will find it for you).

I recently successfully recovered 3 FAT partitions off a disk with TestDisk that was reporting as empty and unpartitioned, after trying (and failing with) pcinspector and FindNTFS.