I was having problems with the infamous "blue screen of death" on my new HP laptop. While chatting with a tech support representative, she recommended that I perform a "nondestructive" reinstall. I specifically asked if I would lose any data. Sure enough, my machine acted like it was fresh out of the box and much of my data was lost.
I'm recovered most of my files, but I have need to restore a .pst file for Outlook. It contains many important emails as well as calendar info and my contact list. A data recovery service might cost $750 or more, so I am looking for some software to try first.
2006-10-25 15:46:14 · 2 answers · asked by Carl 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Free file recovery software
PC Inspector
http://download.pcinspector.de/pci_filerecovery.exe
Restoration
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html
2006-10-25 15:59:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look, if you did a quickformat, the files are still there but the filetable that pointed to them has been erased and replaced with a blank one. I suppose there must be some kind of black magic artifice that can rebuild your old filetable but I couldn't even imagine where your OS would go to then...
Anyways, from now on you should try a back up software, maybe like this one:
http://www.download.com/RightBackup-Lite/3003-2242_4-10440318.html?tag=lst-6-3
to keep your data safe from disasters.
2006-10-25 22:55:54 · answer #2 · answered by vb_course_ar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋