Windows HELP I've formatted the wrong drive

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  1. SiMonTiST

    SiMonTiST Minimodder

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    Hello everyone

    Does anyone know how to retrieve my files ? :rolleyes: :sigh:

    I'm thinking Norton Utiliies might do it, but I don't want to buy it if it can't recover files. :worried:
     
  2. Lucifer

    Lucifer What's a Dremel?

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    FAT or NTFS?
     
  3. Kevo

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    Was it a full format? If so I dont think Norton will help but a Professional and very expensive data recovery center might.
     
  4. yodasarmpit

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    I dont know if this will help as ive never had to recover from a format.

    This site looks promissing , they have a demo version for download - dont know if its a full working version or not .

    Maybe someone else on the forum might know

    http://www.lc-tech.com/recoverNT network.asp
     
  5. Lucifer

    Lucifer What's a Dremel?

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    if the drive was FAT32, get this, it managed to recover an IBM with the click of death :eeek: if it was NTFS, find getdataback for NTFS instead.

    edit by linear: warez link removed
     
  6. SiMonTiST

    SiMonTiST Minimodder

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    Yes its a FAT32 drive

    I downloaded GetDataBack earlier and tried it...

    It only shows me the files, it doesn't let me actually copy them to another HDD :sigh:
     
  7. cpemma

    cpemma Ecky thump

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    Because it's only the eval version? ;)

    Drive Rescue was free on the March PC-Answers (Fat32 only version), or OnTrack do Easy Recovery, but again their Eval version won't copy all the files IIRC.
     
  8. Lucifer

    Lucifer What's a Dremel?

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    the link up there ^^ isn't the eval version ;)
     
  9. SiMonTiST

    SiMonTiST Minimodder

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    Aah right ;)
     
  10. xen0morph

    xen0morph Bargain wine connoisseur

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    If it shows you the files then it means the data's still OK, which is good :D

    or at least the FAT is intact, which should be enough assuming you didn't do some kind of data-only format thing

    lol
     
  11. SiMonTiST

    SiMonTiST Minimodder

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    Well, thanks everyone :D

    I've downloaded the trial version of 'Zero Assumption Recovery', which lets me rescue files from 4 folders. This is good, since most of my important stuffs is backed up as .zip files in the one folder.
    I'm such an idiot! :rolleyes: :lol:

    EDIT: http://www.z-a-recovery.com is the website, and the full version is 50 of your american dollars.

    Oh and btw take a look at some of this stuff http://www.drivesavers.com/museum/museuma.html :eeek:
     
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