Re: recover data from reformatted hard drive

macy wrote:
As my windows xp acting slow as a snail, i intend to reinstall windows
to the

drive C(only windows files stored on it). I also have drive D and
drive E used

for store my personal data. But before reinstallment i reformatted the
whole

hard disk by mistake. The problem is: i did not back up drive D and E.
So the

data were gone.
i downloaded free data recovery software from software website but it
didn't

work. Should i turn to other unfree software or take my hard disk to

professional data recovery company? Anyone has suggetion on it?
Thanks!!!

Not sure what you mean by reformatting the whole hd. You would need to format each partition in turn, something that's hard to do by mistake unless you removed the partitions with fdisk first.

If in fact you did format the D and E partitions, I think you are out of luck. An outside service would be very expensive assuming they were willing to accept the job.
The best that could be done would be to scan with a disk editor and look for text data. This will work even for word processing files and might be marginally useful.
Note, there are programs that will recover photo files on formatted flash cards, but this is a special case and I don't think what they do could be applied to a hd with random data regardless of what is claimed.
Dave Cohen
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