- HDD Data recovery
- Posted by pgx@pgrahams.com on December 5th, 2004
First, I apologize for being off-topic, but I know the quality of the
people in this group!
A friend had a drive crash under XP NTFS. On bad advice he
reformatted and reinstalled OS. Now he asks for help!
Is there any possibility to recover files that were previously on the
drive?
Thanks in advance.
Phil
- Posted by Grinder on December 5th, 2004
pgx@pgrahams.com wrote:
Long Answer:
Some of the data has probably not been overwritten, but merely
deallocated by the formatting routine. Some has likely been
overwritten. In the case of the former, a skilled geek could probably
recover files or parts of files from the drive. In the latter case, a
computer forensics expert *might* be able to recover some information.
I've only tangentially read about those techniques, though, and can't
give any sense of probability.
In both cases, it would take considerable expertise, and therefore
money, to accomplish.
Short Answer:
They're f*cked.
- Posted by DaveW on December 5th, 2004
No, they are gone.
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DaveW
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- Posted by Trent© on December 6th, 2004
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 14:51:43 GMT, pgx@pgrahams.com wrote:
Probably not...but youse never knows.
Try these programs...
R-Studio
Easy Recovery Professional
Good luck.
Have a nice one...
Trent©
Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!
- Posted by Sleepy on December 6th, 2004
<pgx@pgrahams.com> wrote in message
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http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...d,23069,00.asp
it may recover data that hasnt been overwritten. better programs cost a fair
bit and arent worthwhile for the average home user.
