Data Retrieval (1 Viewer)

[r0wlzii]

I recently accidently reformatted the wrong HDD in my computer, as Windows picked it up as the wrong letter, and I took it to the local Computer Specialist as they supposedly can retrieve my data. How do they do this, I have always wondered?

 

[Winston]

Basically if your Format was NOT unconditional it can be retrieved, how data is deleted is basically tagging the items on your HDD with a unique key code or whatsoever to render that specific file's used space as being writable to, so basically if you formated the HDD, and installed something over it, you might of loosed some of your files, because the installation may have written to a location on the HDD which had files on it and was marked for writing over. There's many software utilities to actually visibly see and restore these tagged data files which are rendered writable.

 

[t-i-m-m-y]

u can always pay tens of thousands of dollars to go to data retrieval facilities, as Winston said, thats how they do it
unless of course u like to "erase" ur stuff US military standards wise hehe

 

[fatmuscle]

ontrack easy recovery

also, there is some German site that does this well

 

[jm1234567890]

yeah, ontrack is really good

 

[SashatheMan]

click here from a program that looks at your harddrive for deleted files so u can restore them

 

[sunny]

The thread was dead for months. Let it be.