How can I recover data from a formated hard disk?

Question

My hard disk crashed. I used the recovery software which quick formated the disk. Can I recover my data? How?

Answer 1

Try using Davory or WinHex to attempt a "File Recovery by Type", where you would select "MS Office (xls or doc...)" as the type of file to recover, assuming that you have used Word for your sociology paper.

You might also try "File Recovery by Name" IF you formatted the disk with the same file system (FAT32, NTFS) it had before. In that case, search for the file's name as it was and if you're not really sure, simply search for something like "soc*.doc" or whatever part you remember for sure.

If all that fails you, there is a less comfortable but nevertheless hopeful solution. If you know something that definitely was part of your text (like "Sociology" or "cultural differences between East and West") you could use WinHex's Text Search method to search the whole drive for these text fragments so you could this way at least recover the written text as such, though not the file as a whole. You'd probably have some formatting to do, but at least your text would not be lost.

By the way: Recovering files in WinHex and Davory as a trial version (downloadable from the links above) is only possible up to 200KB. So, if your paper was bigger than this, you'd have to purchase the full version to recover your file, but the trial versions would at least help you find out if you could recover the file at all: If they won't even find it, the full version won't either.

Hope, that helped!

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Answer 3

Yes, you can quickly recover your data using Kernel Recovery for FAT+NTFS.

Visit http://www.nucleustechnologies.com to download the FREE demo software available.

Install the demo on a working machine and attach formatted hard disk to this system.

Start the software and select the formatted disk. Choose the "Advance Mode" to successfully recover data from formatted partitions.

The software will take few hours to scan your complete disk and at the end of the scan, it will display all the found files and folders.

Double click the recovered files from within the software to check for the quality of the files. You can also use the search option to quickly locate a file.

The software is worth the price, which is starting at $49.

To save the time of rescanning you can use the "Save Snapshot" option available in the Recovery Menu of the software.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

No,u can't recover the each and every data...in case of quick format.. soory to say..that u lost ..ur data..

in case of file deletion the recovery is possible..

Answer 6

My laptop somehow replaced a very important file I was working on and made a copy with corrupt contents, I REALLY badly need help retrieving the data. I don't know what to do, should I, like, delete the new copy? Or would that make things worse?

Email me if any of you can help...

Answer 7

Norton utilities comes with a tool named as Unformat which is quite good at recovering files from a formatted drive. I had once formatted my harddrive instead of floppy but norton unformat was able to recreate my whole partition as it was before :-).

Simple to use and quite effective if the drive in question has not being tempered with i would recomment it over others.

Hope that helps
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Answer 8

search 'data recovery software' on google. specify fat or ntfs. you many not be able to recover all data. but these softwares are efficient. if you want free software - there r types which recover all files up to say 64 kb, and some softwares help u recover files one by one.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

You may try this step by step tutorial
http://www.asoftech.com/articles/recover-deleted-files-after-format.html

hope this helps.