Simviation Forum - Recovering files from HD

Jun 12^th, 2004 at 3:03pm

Mr. Bones Offline
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hello,

due to a computer crash, i had to format my hard drive. now someone told me it's possible to recover all of the files that were stored on that drive before formatting. does anyone know a program that i can use for this? or does anyone has experience with it?

thanks! Wink

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Reply #1 - Jun 12^th, 2004 at 3:09pm

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I thought that was impossible. I heard rumours that the cops could do it though.
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Reply #2 - Jun 12^th, 2004 at 4:33pm

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you probably will not be able to recover anything. but prepare for next time by having two partitions on your HD. use one partition for the OS and stuff, and the other one for important docs. then when the OS goes screwy, just reformat that partition.

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Reply #3 - Jun 12^th, 2004 at 10:39pm

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I don’t know if this will work but I hope it does because due to I power failure my C is damaged and I think I'm gonna have to reformat it and reinstall everything. Sad

http://www.handyrecovery.com/index.shtml

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Reply #4 - Jun 14^th, 2004 at 2:48pm

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I'm dowloading that now! Shove it on a floppy for futur use!
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Reply #5 - Jun 14^th, 2004 at 3:28pm

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Hi BR...!
You have made my day Mate... Grin

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What a fantastic program... 8)..!

I have a floppy disk full of 8 years worth of service schedules, (text file), for my bike which suddenly became corrupted and I lost everything...( I could not open the file)... Cry

...!
This little program has completely recovered the text on my floppy disk, which I have now transported onto another floppy disk..!
Thanks Mate... Grin

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A nice cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit on its way... Wink

...!
LOL...!

Paul.

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Reply #6 - Jun 14^th, 2004 at 3:46pm

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gonna try it too! thanks!

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Reply #7 - Jun 14^th, 2004 at 5:48pm

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Unfortunately it didn’t work for me. I have formatted my HD and reinstalled windows and found some articles on the web saying that it’s impossible to erase your HD. So I got a little program from tucows that says it recovers anything, and it does, it found almost everything except what was overwritten by my new windows installation but unfortunately I have to buy Quota of gigabytes to be restored and they know how to charge you the 1st GB is U$110 an the others are more “cheap”, so I searched for specialized technicians that would do the service and I got it For R$ 250 (Brazilian Reais) with today’s exchange (wow where is our economy going 3,10=1 Shocked

) this is about U$80. Grin

I’m Glad I helped to make your day Paul Wink

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http://www.binarybiz.com/vlab/.

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Reply #8 - Jun 14^th, 2004 at 6:12pm

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Quote:

which I have now transported onto another floppy disk..!

You should use a CD it would be much safer.You know it’s never good to give a second chance to bad luck.

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Reply #9 - Jun 15^th, 2004 at 1:45pm

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You should use a CD it would be much safer.You know it’s never good to give a second chance to bad luck.

Hi BR...

put it on a floppy...
on a re-writable CD...
on my hard drive...
written it out on the toilet wall...
a copy in a safety deposit box...
part of my last Will and Testament...
...and engraved on my grave stone*..

Phewww... Shocked

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I think I've allowed for any un-forseen disasters now... 8)...!
LOL...LOL...LOL...!

Cheers BR... Grin

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Paul.

*handy for the bloke who inherits my bike... Grin

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LOL...!

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Reply #10 - Jun 28^th, 2004 at 1:42pm

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From my knowledge, it is possible to recover data on a reformatted harddrive. Providing there has been no install over it.

It requires a sterile lab, techs, some kind of chemical and a lot of time!

There is no software solution for recovery.

Undeleting files is completely different. When a file is deleted, only the index to the file is deleted from the FAT. If you delete a file accidentally you can use most any undelete prodram and recover it completely providing you recover BEFORE conducting any major writing to the drive.

Example. My kid took a picture on my Dig.Cam. w/floppy The pic was deleted to prevent me from seeing it. I put the disk in my CPU and recovered it. Nice picture of the cat's butt. But if a pic was taked after the delete the deleted pic is written over.

For harddrives it's a little different due to size and fragmentation, but the concept is the same.

Joe

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Reply #11 - Jul 5^th, 2004 at 11:53am

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Good explanation there skittles, the basic concept is that as long as there are not a lot of new files saved to the disk, yoiu will be able to recover most everything...

deleting does not remove anything, but instead marks the sector on the drive as usable space which is then used the next time information is written to the drive...

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