Hard Drive recovery tools??

[sAsLEX]

managed to break comp and after trying lots of things I reformatted my HD as I was rather annoyed and hoped this would enable me to get Windows on to it! Looks as though my copy of XP is poo though, and that that may of been the problem.

Anyways anyone had any luck getting info off a formatted Hard Drive??? If so how?

Thanks Alex

[Antallica]

GetDataback is one of the more known apps that's really good. I've tried it myself and it worked, as long as you haven't overwritten the 'forgotten' data you'll be sweet.

http://www.runtime.org/

[sAsLEX]

got to love the KB community!!!

[sAsLEX]

but not linux! cant run those there, will have to try tomorrow in other system!!

[Sniper]

Hmmm, best of luck mate, this wont be easy

[Ramius]

managed to break comp and after trying lots of things I reformatted my HD as I was rather annoyed and hoped this would enable me to get Windows on to it! Looks as though my copy of XP is poo though, and that that may of been the problem.

Anyways anyone had any luck getting info off a formatted Hard Drive??? If so how?

Thanks Alex

If you were running NTFS on it, there is a handy little DOS program which doesn't need any system to open, it is self booting called NTFS Active Uneraser, the website is www.ntfs.com

[Krusti]

Ya trying to recover ya porn?...

[dhunt]

but not linux! cant run those there, will have to try tomorrow in other system!!

What filesystem are you using? ext2 it is possible to do, but the journalling filesystems i don't no of any easy way

[N4CR]

When my ipod was detroyed by windows I used 'active undelete' software to recover most data. It scans all sectors and throws up old crap that was wiped/deleted. !DO NOT! write anything onto your harddrive for now. Run the software off a floppy disk just incase you are wiping stuff while writing data over the old wiped stuff.

I think it was cracked software but if you have problems just email me.

Good luck and I know how it feels!

[Teflon]

managed to break comp and after trying lots of things I reformatted my HD as I was rather annoyed and hoped this would enable me to get Windows on to it! Looks as though my copy of XP is poo though, and that that may of been the problem.

Anyways anyone had any luck getting info off a formatted Hard Drive??? If so how?

Thanks Alex

If it was a low level format (writes zeros), i say you will be out of luck.

[sAsLEX]

If it was a low level format (writes zeros), i say you will be out of luck.

it was a right click on the hd in windows and do it that way, havent had time to get it in to a system with windows on it yet but not counting on many chickens........

[Antallica]

Well if that's the last thing you did then the data should still be there. The format has made the drive has simply 'forget' what's on it.