Data lost when formating

shkhanal

I am using Windows XP. Last time when my computer got hanged and did not boot from next time, I thought of reinstalling Windows XP again.

I formated my C drive and installed Windows XP. Only after I successfully installed Windows, I came to know that I had insatlled it on D drive which is now formatted. I had lots of important documents and images all stored in D drive.

What to do now? Can I get those documents and images back? is there any way? Please help me Embarassed

badai

you got to stop using that PC right away. take out the hardisk, install it on another working PC. on that PC you can use any data recovery software like FinalData, GetDataBack, R-Studio, etc to recover the formatted partition.

Not all you files can be recover because some of it were already overwrite by your windows installation.

Sunny

As badai said avoid adding more stuff to the hard disk, if you do have to install, install it in c drive and not, not even the recovery software. I have used Active Undelete with great success in past, I dont think its free tho.

shkhanal

thank you for your response. Could you please give me the links so that I could download the recovery software if any?

badai

http://www.google.com.my/search?q=FinalData

http://www.google.com.my/search?q=GetDataBack

http://www.google.com.my/search?q=R-Studio

ultimate link:

http://www.google.com.my/search?hl=en&q=%22recover+formatted+partition%22

aningbo

now that the softwares are ready to be downloaded, all i could say is

GOOD LUCK and so let us know if u manage to get back wat u want.

Jaan

How many passes did you go for?
If you used the default that came with the CD, you'll be able to recover at least some data.
All the best, and I would suggest investing in an external hard drive.

FunDa

Good luck man.
I used a software called " Recover my files" It did wonders and was able to recover stuff from my formatted partition .

Try out the softwares in the earlier posts too - This software needs a full version to actually recover my files (which I luckily had ) Wink