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Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Brown Richard wrote: > > >> Thanks for all the replies. Unfortunately we can't go back to the >> company, they went bust. What actually happened, is that there were two >> drives on the second drive lay all this guys photos. He assumed that the >> shop would not format the second drive, in fact he didn't want him to >> format and reinstall the first drive but when he did he thought the >> second drive would be safe. It wasn't and now a couple of years later he >> is hoping I might be able to help. There has hardly been any data >> written to the drive and he has some important family photos he hopes to >> recover, so any help would be hugely helpful. The drive is formatted for >> xp. >> > > There are 2 ways to format a drive under XP: Standard and quick. A > standard format zeros the drive (AIUI), and a quick format just writes new > empty directorys, and filesystem meta-data, etc. > > If it's been quick formatted, then there is a chance of recovery, but it > won't be easy, and some data sectors may still have been overwritten. > > However, you're looking at expensive recovery, as someone will have to try > to go through the old filesystem at the disk sector/block level and try to > piece together the files. It's a long hard job, error prone and no > guarantee of success, even with automated tools to do it. > > So why don't you just restore from backup? (I know, rhetorical question, > he didn't have one. Bet he has one now, and if not, why not? > > Gordon > > hi where are you based im in sidmouth but can go to exeter,my friend has a computer shop and has done this sort of thing before,using his very secret software the rascal,if you want him to have a go at recovering the data im sure he will oblige if i ask him nicely. his success rate is quite high but i wont promise any thing give me a call on 07775853983 cheers alex the noob. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html