How do you get files from a hard drive that has failed and you re-format it? Is everything lost?

Answer 1

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well.. unless you've installed something big like.. a whole lot of other files or an operating sytem or something like that, there's still a big chance that you could get all of your things back... when you format a hard drive.. files are simply deleted and moved to another part of your hard drive to await the overwriting process (that's what i meant by "unless you've installed something big" because even though you can recover those files.. there's a good chance that some have been overwritten already..

..the bigger your hard drive is.. the better chance you stand at recovering everything though..

use this..
http://www.rapidshare.com/files/47696814/File.Scavenger-v3.0.1.rar

*in the search mode select "long search" to get more back..
*select the drive you're trying to recover...
*then make a new folder on something like your desktop and choose to recover to that folder..
*make sure that you check "use folder names" ...whatever folder your files were in before will be created and your files will be there too.
*click search & when it's reached a 100% just hit recover and give it a little while to work.
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but remember.. you might get a bunch of junk back too.. such as files you've deleted in the past or something.. and remember.. even though the files is recovered, that doesn't mean that it's complete & will work.

Answer 2

once you format your difficult force it destroys your grasp Boot record it relatively is a working laptop or computing device equivalent of a card catalogue for an excellent library in side your difficult force. the information remains there (except you do a wipe of randomized 1s and 0s) even with the incontrovertible fact that it relatively is punctiliously disassociated from the report equipment which stored song of it. in case you have all your records backed up, and then format the difficult force, you will could reinstall your OS sparkling from the equipment restoration disk that got here with the computing device or out of your OS disk in case you very own your guy or woman working equipment reproduction. observe which you will could redownload all the updates for that OS and probably some drivers additionally. apart from, be careful that the virus you have isn't a macro virus hiding in one among your records or you would be back the place you began. to guard by contrast, set up an rather good anti virus answer until eventually now you initiate copying your guy or woman data back unto this new set up, so it could verify the data as they arrive.

Answer 3

Well since it sounds like already reformatted, it may be too late - when your drive starts to go you want to try to get as much of the still good data off BEFORE you do anything drastic. Hope you've got some backups.

You might give PhotoRec - http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec - a try. Depending on what you did to reformat, you might try TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk but it's probably too late now; that's more for when the drive is dying and can't find the partition.

You could also try here - http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=60&front_id=12

Answer 4

When you format a hard disk, a message appear saying "All the files in drive [drive letter] will be lost, are you sure you want to proceed? Unless otherwise your hard disk contains a partition, you FORMAT/REFORMAT a partition on your hard disk, and you're files were stored on the other partition.

Answer 5

if the drive failed ... how did you reformat?
Sounds more like your Windows failed ... and you should have "piggybacked" the drive off another machine to transfer your data before reformatting ... data recovery can be expensive ... unless there are important critical bits of data that you must have .... might be better to remember the lesson for next time and accept your loss .... Always back stuff up ... computer components die ...most times without warning

Answer 6

If the information is that important to you, you can hire a company that specializes in disk recovery solutions to restore the data for you, but there's no guaruntees.

Answer 7

lost yes

Answer 8

if u reformat it will kill most of them .. a recovery application could salvage some tho ...
http://www.pcperformancetools.com/recovermyfiles.htm

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