Software to Recover Lost/Deleted Files After A Format.

[Crumpy Gunt]

Any free software?

[Guest Lazlo]

After a format you'll be lucky to recover anything with a free undeleter.

 

Piriform recuva ?

 

 

Depends on a lot of things tbh, not least whether you did a full format or just quick and deleted the headers. what else you've written over the top etc.

 

[Rich]

I accidentally deleted some Uni work recently and had to find some software myself to get it back.

 

I used Restoration and it did the trick for me:

 

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

 

Not sure what the odds of it working after a format are, but you can only try I suppose.

[wacko]

If you did a quick format and haven't used the disk since, chances are good.

[Munkey]

Get back data recovery...not free (unless you manage to find it on one of those naughty torrent sites), but it works a charm..had to re-format me laptop a while ago and put the OS back on. lost all me photos and music. ran this program and recovered it all. takes a while to scan the hard-drive, but is worth it

 

http://www.getbackdata.net/

[Joey]

I used some recovery software the other day, Stellar Phoenix which did a good job as i'd lost a load from my HDD. I'd say it's as good as any.

[Guest guinness_fiend]

In terms of recovering data from a knackered drive, it might be worth taking it to an indepedent PC store, as I know people who've "lost" data according to PC World but have been able to recover a lot of it once a proper PC nut has had a look at it.

 

I know that it doesn't help, but it order to minimise problems going forward, it might be worth picking up a cheap second hard-drive and downloading a free file syncroniser (it'd copy certain data from your main drive onto your backup, so that if your PC crashes in the future you won't lose anything).

 

I use Super Flexible File Syncroniser (it wasn't very expensive, but useful).