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On 30/04/12 11:34, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Roland Tarver wrote:Hi Folks, Sorry this is OT. A friend has accidentally formatted a windows 7 HDD, whilst attempting to restore a slow running PC. There is no backup. Friend is a 2-3 hour drive away. Googling throws up heaps of possibilities for viable recovery software candidates. I was hoping for some recommendations from those with experience of similar situations please? Thank you very much if you are able to help.Not used them in their current form, but: http://www.krollontrack.co.uk/data-recovery/ Seems to get good reviews. I used them (not personally, but for a client) when they were called Vogon data recovery, but that was some 12 years ago - for a laptop drive that had died after a drop. They got the data back - I don't recall how much they charged, but it wasn't cheap. If it was a quick format, the chances of full data recovery are high. If it was a full (slow) format where it wipes all the sectors of the drive, the chances of data recovery are zero. There are very probably free/low cost programs out there that might help do the recovery too, e.g. I've heard of people using them to recover things like camera SD cards when they've accidentally formatted them... Good luck... Gordon
Magic thanks Gordon. I have a bad feeling about this... (!) ...and suspect that it may have been a full format. :-s I have forwarded your email to my friend. Many thanks roly :-) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq