Please help!

squidgeyem · 20 Jul 2011

I've accidently done a quick format of the wrong drive and itos got SO much work on its untrue and I know now but i've learned the biggest lesson ever, i NEED to backup things!

How can i possibly reecover stuff? i've used Icare and DataMediaRecovery and both say they have found 1000000+Files and both seem to say that they are recovering, but when they actually recover the files are unreadable and can't be viewed?

Anyone any suggestions/ideas? PLEASE

Signed

A very mad at myself Emma xx

Grendel · 20 Jul 2011

I'm going to move this to Computers for you. You'll get a better response in there

t-m · 20 Jul 2011

If it's stuff you really can't afford to loose it might be best to stop and send the drive to a professional company to recover the data.

squidgeyem · 20 Jul 2011

t-m said:
If it's stuff you really can't afford to loose it might be best to stop and send the drive to a professional company to recover the data.

It's cost that worrys me - i'm pretty skint now

and i wouldn't know where/how much?!

squidgeyem · 20 Jul 2011

Grendel said:
I'm going to move this to Computers for you. You'll get a better response in there

thank you! I've no idea where to put stuff half the time!

Mikesphotaes · 20 Jul 2011

This might do the trick for you and it's free!

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

squidgeyem · 20 Jul 2011

Mikesphotaes said:
This might do the trick for you and it's free!

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

I've actually just downloaded this after seeing mention of it in a post on here, i'm a little confused on the options, it's asking what I want to recover and it's everything! there's mainly images i'm bothered about but it's got images but only seems to want to get JPGs?

Em

t-m · 20 Jul 2011

squidgeyem said:
It's cost that worrys me - i'm pretty skint now and i wouldn't know where/how much?!

http://www.retrodata.co.uk/ ... just one place I found on google. It might well be worth asking. http://www.datarecoveryuk.co.uk/data-recovery-pricing/ this place also suggests it'll be at least £200.

Chaos · 20 Jul 2011

There are a few program you could try -

Freeware: PhotoRec, TestDisk and Recuva

Paid for: File Scavenger , GetDataBack, RecoverMyFiles

S95 · 20 Jul 2011

Get data back would be my choice, have successfully used this a few times.

squidgeyem · 20 Jul 2011

S95 said:
Get data back would be my choice, have successfully used this a few times.

I'm downloading this as we speak! thank you

I'm hoping like mad!
x

u8myufo · 20 Jul 2011

Not good at all Emma, imo you are wasting your time using free stuff to try and recover anything. Yes they do retrieve stuff but my guess not all what you need. Only you know how important those files are and only you can weigh it up against the cost of having them recovered by a professional company. Do you need those files asap or can they wait :shrug: If the latter then you can get another drive untill you can afford to send the other one off.

mangust · 23 Jul 2011

I can only suggest buy another drive, clone it 1:1. And then experiment with programs on cloned copy. It quite easy if you have any UNIX/Linux system around.