Is Retrieving Files after format possible??

Notoriez · 15th Feb 2007, 04:16 PM

Hi There,

My bro has formatted my family pc without doing any backup on important documents (digital camera pictures)..my father were so incensed because of his reckless actions because most of the pictures are very memorable..

So i want to know whether the 'formatted' documents is retrievable or not?? If yes, what software should i use to retrieve it..Hope someone can help me Thank You

hyper_raider · 15th Feb 2007, 05:16 PM

There are services that does data recovery..but its not cheap

Adrian Wong · 15th Feb 2007, 10:00 PM

There's an unformat option, but it doesn't work if you already installed software in the newly formatted partition, or if you repartition the hard drive.

empire23 · 16th Feb 2007, 06:12 AM

Pretty simple actually, don't write anything to the drive and use something like Ontrack Professional Disk Recovery software and just let the program do its magic and walla, most of the time the data comes back to life safe and sound. Or you could do it the hard way by using DOS, NDD's editing program and edit the delete status in the headers of the files.

I obviously recommend the first option.

15th Feb 2007, 04:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
Notoriez Newbie Join Date: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 1 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	Is Retrieving Files after format possible?? Hi There, My bro has formatted my family pc without doing any backup on important documents (digital camera pictures)..my father were so incensed because of his reckless actions because most of the pictures are very memorable.. So i want to know whether the 'formatted' documents is retrievable or not?? If yes, what software should i use to retrieve it..Hope someone can help me Thank You

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Adrian Wong Da Boss Join Date: 10 Oct 2002 Location: In front of my BenQ Joybook 7000 notebook! Posts: 29,939 Reputation: 2958 Rep Power: 65	There's an unformat option, but it doesn't work if you already installed software in the newly formatted partition, or if you repartition the hard drive. __________________ Dr. Adrian Wong Tech ARP \| Blog @ Tech ARP \| The Free Trade Zone DYKT : The only offshore account I have is at the sand bank? Keep Tech ARP free! Visit our sponsors! We need PROGRAMMERS and TECHNICAL WRITERS! Contact us if you are a hot shot programmer or technical writer! My items for sale : 50x SD Card \| Memory Stick PRO \| Cyclone Energy Saver \| Seiko SS watch \| Tiger/Carlsberg beer jugs \| Travel Speakers \| Motorola V600 \| Nokia N90 SOLD! \| New Lowepro Mini Trekker AW Other items for sale @ the FTZ : Zalman CNPS9500 LED @ $20 \| Zalman CNPS7700 Cu @ $20 \| Zalman CNPS7000 Cu @ $20 \| Swarovski bracelet watches \| Dell 17" LCD \| Hi-Fi speakers \| English DIVX movies \| HP LaserJet toners! \| Office chairs

16th Feb 2007, 06:12 AM	#4 (permalink)
empire23 BRB. Attacking Russia Join Date: 4 Feb 2006 Location: Ze Fatherland Posts: 279 Reputation: 390 Rep Power: 6	Pretty simple actually, don't write anything to the drive and use something like Ontrack Professional Disk Recovery software and just let the program do its magic and walla, most of the time the data comes back to life safe and sound. Or you could do it the hard way by using DOS, NDD's editing program and edit the delete status in the headers of the files. I obviously recommend the first option. __________________ I'm in Ur Forums, Spamming Ur Boards.

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