reformatted HD I need data back

[Chavito21]

Hi everyone,

I formatted my HD, when I check my CD where I had Backup my drawing I couldn't read it. So I am now trying to recover those AutoCAD drawings from the HD. I bought File Scavenger 2.1 data recovery and I got them all back but I ca not open those drawings.

Does anyone know what I can do next?

Thanks

 

[micker377]

Why can't you access the restored files? What errors do you get? What type of Hard Drive? Whay OS?

 

[Chavito21]

The HD is a Maxtor 30G running Win2k pro. I Fdisk and reformat HD. There were some AutoCAD Drawing(.DWG) files that were not backed up. So I thought I would buy a Data recovery. File Scavenger 2.1 and it did recover the drawings but is giving me and error message saying. "Drawing file is not Valid". and it just wont open. Autocad have a recover fuction. It doen't work either.
I think I'm out of luck. Unless anyone have any ideas.

 

[micker377]

Can you contact the Auto-Cad company and ask for a way to "convert" or repair the files? Another thing: were these drawing written and saved with the same version of Auto-Cad you are using now? I know with Quicken, some old tax records won't read with the current version.

 

[EdddieT]

I bought an 80 Gb hard drive from a small computer company. Now I have the disk, I suspect that the drive was not new when I bought it. How can I find out what was on this drive before it was reformatted and sold to me?

 

[wolluf]

why would you want to?

 

[EdddieT]

Well its simple really, If the disk has been preowned and used I ahve paid for a new disk! Would you like to buy a car at the new price which has been pre-owned. I want to find out if the disk has been used so that I can go back to the seller and with proof and ask for a NEW hard disk! I am looking for a way to prove that the disk was not new when it was sold to me.

 

[wolluf]

Then try a data recovery tool - free one here

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

- though if they ran a binary zero fill on the drive, you won't find anything (why do you suspect its been used - is it damaged/marked?)