Recovering Data From A Hard Drive?

Question

I have a pc that has been recovered by using the manufactured cds; all data and programs are gone. I would like to know if there is a way that I can recover the data; I am talking about a way, just one way, not matter how complicated or costly. Is there a way?

Answer 1

Yes there is a way but it will cost you in the $1,000's ... what the CD's did was fix the MBR (and maybe partitions & other things). Unlike a formatted drive (where the info still resides but just missing the first charectors, it is a little more complex ). Now you need a data recovery lab to get that information back. They may have to go as far as to destroy the hard drive in the process (to access that actual disk) but it can be done. The question is does "no matter how complicated or costly" still apply? If so then head to the yellow pages under data recovery for your area. If they don't do it they may have to ship it out of state to have it done.

Answer 2

Buy Norton System Works Premier http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=nswp2006

Answer 3

get a program called GETDATABACK

i lost over 4,000 mp3s along with word documents and this program recovered ALL

you can download this program using torrents...

bitcoment (program)


as stated below....it will NOT cost you 1,000 dollars to get this done...i used Getdataback http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm
you can even download the free evaluation version just to SEE what will be recovered. and if you want to "purchase" it then you can.


i got it from

http://torrentspy.com/torrent/171166/Runtime_GetDataBack_for_NTFS_V2_1_31_zip

so no it wont cost you a DIME...and it worked to about 90% perfection for me...

Answer 4

if you want to have someone do it for you, use techrestore.com