how do I "unformat" retrieve data?

[denolth2]

Doh! formatted a hard drive and lost data...need to retrieve data...how do you do this? Or is it possible? doh! doh! doh!
I did a standard format c: no switches...haven't done anything with the hard drive since it happened....

den 2 doh!

:O

:rolleyes: always something going on....doh doh doh

[mnosteele52]

format = erase.:(

[AAF Striker]

Actually, I believe I have heard of places that can recover data after it has been formatted. Unless I heard something else. But I do remember it was really expensive to have done. I swear I remember Leo Laporte mentioning it at one time or another, not sure where has was talking about though.

[YeOldeStonecat]

There are many "hard drive disaster recovery" places out there that will recover data for you if it's ///that important///....but they are expensive. Since you only formatted a drive once, it will be a cakewalk for them, should be under a thousand bucks. But hard drives that have failed, or been through a fire, or been formatted with other stuff installed over on top...bill can get into the thousands.

http://www.diskman.com/

I've used Phoenix recovery before for a client who had a fire in his office when the computer kinda had a melt down. Heh. Luckily his insurance covered the bill which was past 3 grand.

Many "undelete" utililities out there also which you can run yourself. I don't have a name handy, or the time to look now, but I have used them before, some just recover from deleted files, or recylce bin files, but other more robust ones do recover from formatted partitions.

[Norm]

http://www.r-tt.com/RStudio.shtml

Never tried it, but it looks promising.

[denolth2]

I appreciate the help.... :D

but if there are any others, then please keep 'em coming....since I'm sure I'm not the only idiot that has done this... :D

den2 :O

[Murman]

Drive Rescue - Undelete and data recovery tool


http://home.arcor.de/christian_grau/rescue/index.html

[bunson]

Norton system works 2000 has an unformat program as part of the emergency disk set; not sure if the newer ones do. -m