Re: Possible to recover data from a Formatted(Quick) Hard Drive? How s

"CaptainCanuck" <CaptainCanuck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Is it possible to recover data from a Hard Drive that was formatted (quick)
accidently and had a new OS installed on it?
How would this be done?
What software would be required?
Many thanks,
CaptainCanuck
PS
Ys I know many of you will say, "How can someone accidently format a hard
drive?"
To that I would respond, "The 'someone' was hired because they are a
brother-in-law, which means they are dumber than grass!"
I need to recover something, anything from the drive or I'm gonna fire the
brother-in-law AND the wife!

Stop using the computer. Take the hard drive out, put it in another computer and image it to an external drive so you have a copy, then try data recovery. Google for data recovery tools. Also if the data is extremely valuable you could try one of the data recovery services, but know they cost is high.

www.driversavers.com
www.ontrack.com
http://services.seagate.com/

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

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