FOAK - need to recover data from reformatted hard disk...

I've looked on my backup drive, under the sofa and behind the fridge
but I still can't find some files I thought I'd backed up from my
previous hard disk.

Foolishly[1] I reformatted the old disk prior to putting it in
storage. No new data was written to it therefore[2] all the old data
might be recoverable from the old (FAT32) partition.

My old copy of 'Lost & Found 1.06' doesn't seem to like either my Zip
drive or my shiny new NTFS disk so I can't use that.

What does the FOAK recommend please?

Chris D
[1] in retrospect
[2] note the uncertainty in my phraseology

 

http://www.runtime.org/

 

One of my clients did something similar

Recover my Files did what it said on the tin.
and has done on several other occasions

Took a while, mind. Renaming everything everything afterwards was their
problem

www.recovermyfiles.com


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From just the other day, getdataback (all one word) will sort it. They
do a free trial, which might do the job. There's FAT and NTFS versions
when I last looked at it.

 

Yes thanks for this, and the other responses. Runtime's Getdataback
did indeed find my missing files, and I was even able to view and
listen to content - but the trial version won't let you do recovery.
Ordinarily I would be quite happy to pay for this sort of thing but,
as I hope it is a one-off, and $120 seemed rather a lot, I naturally
tried to find 'other help' through Google.

The mess of virus-related sites seems to have overwhelmed what used
to a simple 'pikey' solution so I was on the verge of giving up when
I noticed something strange in my file manager. There, lurking
amongst the usual cr*p in the 'My Documents' folder (which I normally
make a point of avoiding) were files with strange names, but of
identical size, to some of the files that had gone missing.

In the twinkling of a mouse, I had copied said files to a USB drive
and opened them on another machine. Magic! These were my 'lost and
not recovered' files found by GetDataBack. All I had to do was rename
them. Even more interesting, it didn't matter what program I tried
to use on the original 'unrecovered' files (some had obscure suffixes
and were no longer registerd file types - even 'Notepad' worked) as
copies still got put in 'My Documents'.

So there we are then. The ultimate pikey solution. No username, no
registration code, no dosh required.

HTH

Chris D
('Winston suddenly realised that, at last he *loved* 'My Documents'.)